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What Is Prior Knowledge and Why it Matters?

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

Understanding and effectively leveraging this aspect of cognition is vital for educators in creating effective, responsive, and inclusive teaching strategies that build upon what learners already know and guide them towards deeper understanding and higher levels of academic achievement. Prior Knowledge: What Does the Research Say?

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Kids are failing algebra. The solution? Slow down.

The Hechinger Report

So, we’ve spent several months traveling the country learning from schools applying best practices and from researchers and educators who have studied what works. A 2016 study by the American Institutes for Research noted that about a third of Chicago’s public high school students fail one or both semesters of algebra I.

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In Puerto Rico, the odds are against high school grads who want to go to college

The Hechinger Report

Among the many other problems dragging down Puerto Rico’s stagnant economy, made worse by hurricanes Irma and Maria in 2017, is a huge high school dropout rate and, among those students who do manage to graduate, a comparatively low trajectory to college — especially college on the mainland — and a high dropout rate there, too.

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How one district went all-in on a tutoring program to catch kids up

The Hechinger Report

So, we’ve spent several months traveling the country learning from schools applying best practices and from researchers and educators who have studied what works. And another study found that intensive tutoring had major positive impacts on math gains among high school students. Another is studying inequalities.

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After the pandemic disrupted their high school educations, students are arriving at college unprepared

The Hechinger Report

Andrea Hernandez studied the multiplication table nearly every day during the summer between her third and fourth grade years. An aspiring mechanical engineer, Hamscho failed his first college calculus exam before he formed a study group. It’s a strategy to help them build back their academic identity, he said.

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Learning Technologies and Creativity in the Classroom

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If newer technologies can foster creativity in students then educators must seriously think about how they can incorporate them into their classroom teaching strategies. Dropout rates increase, test and project scores dip, and – worst of all – learning becomes synonymous with boredom. Creativity and the classroom. Leaving the shore.

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High schools fail to provide legally required education to students with disabilities

The Hechinger Report

Her disability doesn’t mean she can’t analyze and discuss a text; she can be taught strategies to help her decode words more easily. Rather than being challenged, he was allowed to use a teacher-made study guide while taking exams at his California high school. He said he never had to study or actually learn anything to get an A.

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