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Why I Teach Women's Studies at an All-Girls Catholic School

Edsurge

To build on our founders’ mission, the school began offering a women’s studies elective titled “Women and Society”, which I have proudly taught since 2014. Right before my colleague retired in 2014, he asked if I would like to take it over, to which I firmly replied, “Yes!” Over time, the course has become a student favorite.

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PROOF POINTS: Two studies find scattergrams reduce applications to elite colleges

The Hechinger Report

But two recent studies have found that this information could discourage students who might have a shot at the most elite schools. Two separate studies indicate that these information displays are discouraging some teens from applying to the most competitive schools, such as Harvard and Stanford.

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A Popular Study Found That Taking Notes By Hand Is Better Than By Laptop. But Is It?

Edsurge

A 2014 research study with a catchy title is often pointed to by those who worry that technology is having unexpected downsides in the classroom. The study has been cited in other peer-reviewed journals more than 1,200 times, according to Google Scholar, and it has been pointed to in op-eds and other popular articles as well.

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PROOF POINTS: Inside the perplexing study that’s inspired colleges to drop remedial math

The Hechinger Report

When Alexandra Logue served as the chief academic officer of the City University of New York (CUNY) from 2008 to 2014, she discovered that her 25-college system was spending over $20 million a year on remedial classes. Most importantly, it studied math, often an insurmountable requirement for many students to complete their college degrees.

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Boost Morale with These Simple Strategies

A Principal's Reflections

Using self-determination theory (Deci & Ryan, 2008), a study involving 735 workers was conducted to examine autonomy's impact on overall morale. The bottom line is that people want to be recognized, but morale will be most positively impacted by using authentic rewards that your staff value and do not see as disingenuous (White, 2014).

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PROOF POINTS: A study suggests an instructive way to talk to little crawlers

The Hechinger Report

A small study finds that crawling babies whose parents directed them to play with a toy had larger vocabularies than babies whose parents didn’t talk to them this way. Walle suspects that the crawlers catch up with the early walkers, both physically and verbally, but now he has a new study for anxious parents.

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Saint Leo University plans the nation’s first veteran studies bachelor’s degree program

The Hechinger Report

For almost as long as there have been wars, there have been people who study veterans. But a specific degree program to study veterans is being launched this fall at Saint Leo University in central Florida. He said veteran studies is more about the long-term impacts of war than the logistics of arming and deploying forces.

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