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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. Prior Knowledge: What Does the Research Say? For instance, the work of Cordova et al., For instance, the work of Cordova et al.,

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AllHere Gets a ‘Nudge’ to Scale Low-Cost, Research-Backed Way to Improve Student Outcomes

Edsurge

That led him to his current career in academia, where much of his research focuses on how sending “nudges,” or periodic reminders, to parents and students can improve academic outcomes. Initially, to conduct his studies, he typed out text messages by hand: “Your child has missed class two times this week.”

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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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How higher education lost its shine

The Hechinger Report

Between 2015 and 2019, Americans’ faith in higher education dropped more than their confidence in any other institution measured by the Gallup polling organization — an extraordinary erosion of trust, considering that list includes the presidency, Congress, big business and the criminal justice system. The countries ahead of the U.S.

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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. Prior to the pandemic and prior to the school year, that was social time for students.

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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. “I’m in touch with my students two, three times a week,” by text, phone, Google classroom and Zoom meetings, Concepcion says. Future outbreaks will make for unpredictable waves of closures.