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What Is Prior Knowledge and Why it Matters?

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

This term refers to the pre-existing cognitive framework that each student brings into the learning environment, encompassing everything from factual information to deeply ingrained skills and misconceptions. References and further readings Binder, T., Sandmann, A., Sures, B. IJ STEM Ed , 6 (33).

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Communities hit hardest by the pandemic, already struggling, could face a dropout cliff

The Hechinger Report

The pandemic will create that dropout crisis if schools just focus on 11th and 12th graders and trying to catch them up. They’ve got to have a focus on the younger students, on the students who are transitioning to high school.” Related: More studies mark the pandemic’s toll on student achievement.

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“It’s so hard and so challenging:” An oral history of year three of pandemic schooling

The Hechinger Report

As of this fall, it had 198,645 students, compared with 205,778 in the 2019-2020 school year, and was still trying to track down students who’d gone missing. Maranda Seawood, student support specialist at Washington Elementary School. Valente’ Gibson , fifth grade teacher at Jackson Creek Elementary School.

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5 Radical Schooling Ideas For An Uncertain Fall And Beyond

MindShift

There is no one answer for what the coming school year will look like, but it won’t resemble the fall of 2019. In pre-pandemic times, it offered a series of hourlong workshops to family members, mostly in low-income communities, coaching them to set goals and practice specific reading concepts with elementary school-age children.