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New NWEA Study Points to Instructional Strategies Driving Academic Growth

eSchool News

.– K-12 assessment and research organization NWEA released today a new study that takes a deeper look into instructional practices driving high academic growth. NWEA’s new study followed that research to answer the next, necessary question: what can be learned from high growth schools about teaching and learning?

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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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University Scholars Plant Seeds In a New Field of Study: Early Childhood Policy

Edsurge

It’s not only about the pedagogical experiences children have; it’s become a systems-oriented space.” That’s what the initiative found when it commissioned research about how Black Studies, Women’s Studies and Environmental Studies proliferated in higher education. approving taxes to support universal preschool programs.

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This Is Your Brain on Math: The Science Behind Culturally Responsive Instruction

Edsurge

A 2018 meta-analysis of functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) studies of children ages 14 and younger demonstrated that math performance in children emerges from areas of the brain that are associated with number processing, such as the parietal and frontal areas.

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Homeless Students Are Missing School. Does Having a Separate School for Them Help or Hurt?

Edsurge

That means building a standalone community because, she says, it’s hard for students who don’t have homes to be themselves in the mainstream American school system. But that study did not track academic outcomes or chronic absence rates. It's a bright, beautiful, colorful, joyful place,” DeVries adds. So does the model work?

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NWEA to Explore New Science Experiences for Students on Roblox

eSchool News

Utilizing a Roblox Community Fund grant , the organization will explore innovative ways to use 3D immersive experiences to engage students in the study of science and assess their achievements in the subject. Visit NWEA.org to learn more about how we’re partnering with educators to help all kids learn.

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It’s Time to Take College Student Hunger and Homelessness Seriously

Edsurge

Through advocacy on campuses and in communities and ongoing state and federal investment in the real cost of higher education—including housing, food and other supports—we can and should make a firm commitment to students who are doing everything they can to become economically self-sufficient. But it doesn’t have to be this way.

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