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New Study Shows Where ‘Growth Mindset’ Training Works (And Where It Doesn’t)

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A large nationwide study has found that teaching ninth graders to maintain a “growth mindset” toward learning—stressing that their minds are like muscles that can get stronger with use—can result in higher test scores. Dweck is a co-author of the study released today. Data was collected in the 2015-16 school year.

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PROOF POINTS: ‘Right-to-read’ settlement spurred higher reading scores in California’s lowest performing schools, study finds

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Blue dots represent the 75 schools that were eligible for the right-to-read settlement program of training and funds. In 2017, public interest lawyers sued California because they claimed that too many low- income Black and Hispanic children weren’t learning to read at school.

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PROOF POINTS: Black and white teachers from HBCUs are better math instructors, study finds

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Black elementary students in North Carolina tended to score higher on annual math tests when they were taught by an HBCU-trained teacher, but not necessarily a Black teacher, according to an unpublished study from a Stanford University graduate student. Though not a large number, a quarter of these HBCU-trained teachers were white.

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This Paraprofessional Did Her Teacher Training on the Job. Now, She Has Her Own Classroom.

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Montgomery’s education and training experience had its share of detours but ultimately led her back to a career that she’d picked out for herself long ago, and which she feels she is especially well suited for. After high school, I initially went away to college to study to become a secondary math teacher.

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OPINION: Studying humanities can prepare the next generation of social justice leaders

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The drop in humanities majors and a significant and simultaneous rise in the number of STEM graduates show that students have altered their understanding of what they should study to achieve success in the post-collegiate job market. Miriam Hamburger, a 2017 religious studies graduate from Occidental College, is a good example.

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TRANSFR Raises $12M to Deliver Hands-on Workforce Training Through VR

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which uses virtual reality to deliver workplace training and skills development. What we essentially do is create training simulations in virtual reality that enables someone to kind of do a pre-apprenticeship program, in VR. Among them is TRANSFR Inc., the publicly traded online education provider.

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PROOF POINTS: Four new studies bolster the case for project-based learning

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Four new studies on project-based learning. 2nd grade social studies. Four new studies released in February 2021 are helping to fill this void. The George Lucas Foundation financed the four studies. Students worked on multi-stage projects over an extended period of time throughout a unit of study. Curriculum.

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