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What Is Prior Knowledge and Why it Matters?

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

Furthermore, the research by Torsten Binder and colleagues in “ Assessing prior knowledge types as predictors of academic achievement in the introductory phase of biology and physics study programmes using logistic regression ” examines the impact of different types of prior knowledge on academic achievement in biology and physics.

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Districts Pivot Their Strategies to Reduce Chronic Absenteeism During Distance Learning

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percent (about 11,000 students) in 2018-2019. By comparison, the state of California reported a 12 percent chronic absenteeism rate among students in 2018-2019, representing 676,000 students. In elementary school, frequent absences are linked to a higher likelihood of dropout—even if attendance improves over time.

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Redesigning, Reimagining, and Rethinking American Education

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Students need their schools to help them build SEL skills to prepare them for life outside the classroom. Education leaders need to figure out what the new classroom dynamic looks like, if there even is a classroom, and how technology could help them reach more students. Three Essential Recommendations. About the Moderator.

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Minnesota has a persistent higher-ed gap: Are new efforts making a difference?

The Hechinger Report

Though some programs have helped lower dropout rates and improved graduation rates for students of color, the gap in the percentage of students finishing a degree has barely budged across the 30 community colleges in the Minnesota State Colleges and University system. I felt like I needed mirrors in the classroom.”.

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Who Will Teach the Children? The 3 Keys to Building Globally Competitive, World Class Schools

EdNews Daily

Schools cannot prepare, highly successful graduates if there are not sufficient highly effective educators in school classrooms and in school front offices. Teachers are leaving the classroom almost as quickly as colleges of education are preparing them. He handed me a roll book, the keys to my classroom and wished me good luck.

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Thousands of kids are missing from school. Where did they go?

The Hechinger Report

Related: Communities hit hardest by the pandemic, already struggling, could face a dropout cliff To assess just how many students have gone missing, AP and Big Local News canvassed every state in the nation to find the most recently available data on both public and non-public schools, as well as census estimates for the school-age population.

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Why decades of trying to end racial segregation in gifted education haven’t worked

The Hechinger Report

Eve, on the city’s majority-Black East Side, 13 first graders, all of them Black, Latino or Asian American, folded paper airplanes in their basement classroom as part of an aerodynamics and problem-solving lesson. Purdue University’s Gifted Education Research and Resource Institute found in 2019 that inequity is the norm.

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