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GED and other high school equivalency degrees drop by more than 40% nationwide since 2012

The Hechinger Report

Red states are where the annual issuance of new high school equivalency diplomas has fallen by more than 50 percent between 2012 and 2016. Specifically, the annual number of test takers who completed one of the three exams has fallen more than 45 percent from more than 570,000 in 2012 to roughly 310,000 in 2016. Data source: Thomas J.

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Tablets vs. Textbooks for Students

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

Tablets vs. Textbooks for Students In this comparison between tablets and textbooks I cover the strengths and challenges of both, examining how interactive and up-to-date digital content from tablets stands against the tactile, reliable nature of traditional textbooks.

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Is it the school, or the students?

eSchool News

This facilitates comparisons that reveal causal effects of school attendance on learning gains, as in a randomized clinical trial of the sort used in medical research. By virtue of the lottery inside the seat-assignment algorithm, otherwise-similar sets of students randomly attend an array of different schools.

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PROOF POINTS: Paper books linked to stronger readers in an international study

The Hechinger Report

By comparison, students who tended to read books more often on digital devices scored only 15 points higher than students who rarely read – a difference of less than a year’s worth of learning. Simultaneously, reading performance around the world, which had been slowly improving up until 2012, declined between 2012 and 2018.

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Music Training Speeds Up Brain Development in Children

Digital Promise

It would involve including a comparison group, as all children change with age. The ideal comparison group would be children who participate in equally socially interactive but nonmusical training, such as sports. Follow-up assessments after their training would reveal how each group changes over time.

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Governor Christie’s Guide to Destroying a Great Education System #NJED

A Principal's Reflections

This recognition has been validated by state-by-state data comparisons. However, just like any other profession the amount of bad educators pales in comparison to those who go above and beyond to help kids learn. Historically NJ is typically number one or two. This past year five of the top 100 public schools in America were from NJ.

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PROOF POINTS: Could more time in school help students after the pandemic?

The Hechinger Report

A 2012 review of studies on learning time found that the extra time often didn’t produce academic benefits for students and when it did, the benefits were small. One 2012 review of studies on learning time found that the extra time often didn’t produce academic benefits for students and when it did, the benefits were small.

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