A Principal's Reflections

SEPTEMBER 23, 2018

Not only did Elisabeth Trambley (2017) do a fantastic literature review of these, but she also conducted her own research study to determine the impact of brain breaks on behavior. 2012; Erwin, Fedewa, & Ahn, 2013; Browning et al., Science and research compel all educators to integrate more movement into the school day.

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OCTOBER 8, 2018

Red states are where the annual issuance of new high school equivalency diplomas has fallen by more than 50 percent between 2012 and 2016. Specifically, the annual number of test takers who completed one of the three exams has fallen more than 45 percent from more than 570,000 in 2012 to roughly 310,000 in 2016. Data source: Thomas J.

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A Principal's Reflections

JUNE 17, 2018

The research fully supports this proclamation. for feedback in his synthesis of 800 meta-analyses of education research studies; in fact, feedback ranked among the highest of hundreds of education practices he studied. The valuable information in many cases aligns with what the research has said constitutes good feedback.

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Digital Promise

MAY 21, 2015

That quest to prove the effectiveness of my own practice started my interest in finding “research-based” teaching practices. At first, I was skeptical about research. Just because something is research-based doesn’t necessarily mean it’s relevant or valid for my classroom. This is action research!

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 18, 2021

I wanted to know what the research evidence says about the model that New York is discarding and how education researchers would remake gifted and talented programs. Researchers have been studying ways to diversify the ranks of gifted-and-talented programs. Among whites, 8 percent get tapped for gifted classrooms.

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Anthropology.net

APRIL 10, 2025

Scerri Broader Context of Mediterranean Migrations These findings align with other research indicating complex migration patterns in the Mediterranean. ​ Related Research Mannino, M. Origin and diet of the prehistoric hunter-gatherers on the Mediterranean Island of Favignana (Ègadi Islands, Sicily). PLoS ONE , 7(11), e49802.

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Anthropology.net

NOVEMBER 30, 2024

Bae of the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa and senior researcher Xiujie Wu from the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the research sheds light on a complex evolutionary period in Asia’s late Middle and early Late Pleistocene. Led by Professor Christopher J.

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A Principal's Reflections

FEBRUARY 20, 2013

News STEM Summit 2012. One of the things that we can do to help disband that stereotype,” says executive director of technical research at AT&T Labs, Alicia Abella, in an interview with U.S. And of the women who do earn STEM degrees, the U.S

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JUNE 10, 2024

LIFO is not very good for kids,” said Dan Goldhaber, a labor economist at the American Institutes for Research, speaking to journalists about expected teacher layoffs at the 2024 annual meeting of the Education Writers Association in Las Vegas. The last time there were mass teacher layoffs was after the 2008 recession.

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Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Researchers from the University of São Paulo (USP) and the Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation (EMBRAPA) have identified semi-domesticated maize specimens from caves in Brazil’s Peruaçu Valley, revealing a unique chapter in the crop’s evolutionary history. Annual Review of Genetics, 15 , 119–132.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 7, 2021

A 2018 review of the research evidence for reducing class sizes found only small benefits in reading and no benefits in math, on average. Parents and teachers may like smaller classes but the research evidence for spending money on them isn’t strong. Class size reduction is costly,” the Danish researchers wrote.

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A Principal's Reflections

SEPTEMBER 11, 2016

Eliminated cost of living adjustments ( COLA ) for all retired educators who gave their all for kids Vetoed a mandatory school recess bill, even though research had shown how important it is to student learning. Pushed forward a few unfunded mandates (Common Core, PARCC) that have taken away precious funds from improving what really matters.

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JUNE 2, 2022

That’s the key finding of a recently released study from researchers at the University of Houston and the University of Washington, who surveyed 2,500 students in grades 1 to 12 to learn about the stereotypes children hold regarding boys’ and girls’ interest in STEM, and how those stereotypes affect STEM participation.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 8, 2024

Researchers are starting to document how AI bias manifests in unexpected ways. Inside the research and development arm of the giant testing organization ETS, which administers the SAT, a pair of investigators pitted man against machine in evaluating more than 13,000 essays written by students in grades 8 to 12. Garbage in, garbage out.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

Out-of-school factors weigh heavily on student success, studies show, and research indicates family engagement can lead to higher grades and test scores, improved attendance and better behavior. Buoyed by promising research, the Flamboyan Foundation, based in Washington, D.C., Photo: Caralee Adams for The Hechinger Report.

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A Principal's Reflections

MAY 7, 2017

Relationship building is a never-ending process, and in education it is not a part of a “sales cycle” (Connick, 2012) but is instead a part of an “awareness cycle.” Research Management Review, 20(1), 1–6. Focusing on relationships is a cornerstone of any leadership effort and one that supports a brandED strategy. Connick, W.

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FEBRUARY 25, 2025

leading research excavations, the Durotriges project of the University of Bournemouth. While some of the press coverage about the new research portrayed the findings as a surprise, archaeologists were far from shocked. The new findings come from individuals buried at the Late Iron Age cemetery of Winterborne Kingston in Dorset.

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A Principal's Reflections

OCTOBER 29, 2012

Below is an email that I recently received from Amanda Howell, a 2012 graduate of New Milford High School. I traveled to many competitions to work on my debate and public speaking skills through the Ethics Bowl and Mock Trial, where we had to research and formulate opinions and strategies on current issues.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

Five years later, in 2012, the majority of these young college graduates had full-time jobs. From a statistical perspective, these rates and salaries are identical, according to the February 2018 report produced by RTI International, a nonprofit research institute, for the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES).

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A Principal's Reflections

JULY 12, 2012

Throughout the entire 2011-2012 school year, we worked to refine our approach, implementation, and learning outcomes for the program. After a semester long pilot program with the senior class during the spring of 2011, we rolled out our Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) program to the entire student body in September. Mobile learning devices (i.e.

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Edthena

DECEMBER 16, 2021

There are many ideas for how teachers can learn and grow their practice, but it is more effective doing what has been research-proven. The research connection is also crucial when justifying the use of your ESEA or ESSA dollars. Research shows video leads to teacher improvement in instruction. Tripp & Rich, 2012.

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Anthropology.net

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

Credit: Uni Halle / Markus Scholz Their research presents an unexpected reality: despite being bred separately, two lineages of German domestic pigs— Deutsches Edelschwein (DE) and Deutsche Landrasse (DL)—have evolved strikingly similar skull shapes due to shared industrial selection pressures.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 10, 2019

The latest research comes from the Reboot Foundation, which released a study in June 2019 that shows a negative connection between a nation’s performance on international assessments and 15-year-olds’ self-reported use of technology in school. Photo: Tara García Mathewson/The Hechinger Report. Choose as many as you like.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 2, 2017

New research shows that levels of math anxiety have a.75 Data drawn from the PISA 2012 database, graph adapted from Foley et al, 2017.). Third, math is taught as a set of procedures and calculations, when brain research tells us that visual representations and ideas are really important for brain connections and mathematical growth.

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Catlin Tucker

DECEMBER 9, 2021

2007; Klassen, Perry & Frenzel, 2012; McIlveen & Perera, 2016; Perera, Granziera, et al., It’s critical to understand what teacher engagement is and what factors positively impact teacher engagement if we are going to attract and retain talented teachers.

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A Principal's Reflections

JANUARY 8, 2012

The students have to research the costs associated with starting a business and are then to ask for a loan as part of a business plan competition. Mr. Jaworski offered to assist Dr. Asa-Awuku and Mrs. Bergoffen with developing an activity for “Engineering Week” in February of 2012.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 13, 2024

We should care about this troubling shift because many researchers say that children learn best in integrated classrooms. This chart shows that young Black students progressed in reading for four decades, from 1971 to 2012, when the scores of Black children peaked. Between 2012 and 2023, 40 years of progress in math vanished.

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A Principal's Reflections

JUNE 25, 2013

PIRG Panelist Nicole Allen discussed her work as Public Interest Research Group (PIRG)’s Textbook Advocate. For more discussion on the role of OER in education, read “The Massive Open Online Professor,” by Steve and Philipp from the May, 2012, volume of Academic Matters: a Journal of Higher Education.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 24, 2021

A 2012 review of studies on learning time found that the extra time often didn’t produce academic benefits for students and when it did, the benefits were small. Grossman, an economist at Princeton University and MDRC, a nonprofit research organization, who has studied this research literature. “My Credit: Getty Images.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 25, 2022

Researchers at the OECD compared these survey responses with test scores and noticed intriguing relationships between books in the home, a preference for reading on paper and reading achievement. Simultaneously, reading performance around the world, which had been slowly improving up until 2012, declined between 2012 and 2018.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

The drop in college graduates who majored in humanities ranges between 16 percent and 29 percent since 2012. Depending upon which fields you include in the humanities bucket, the drop in graduates is somewhere between 16 percent and 29 percent since 2012. The last time colleges produced this few humanities graduates was in 2002.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

Credit: Eric Thayer/Associated Press The Education Recovery Scorecard analysis by researchers at Harvard, Stanford and Dartmouth allows year-to-year comparisons across states and districts, providing the most comprehensive picture yet of how American students are performing since COVID-19 first disrupted learning. Thursday, Feb.

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Digital Promise

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

To help teachers participating in the DLP reflect on their progress in impactful use of technology, DLP researchers and practitioners developed an Impactful Technology Use (ITU) Rubric and associated survey questions. Review of Educational Research, 88(4), 547-588. Indicators of impactful technology use. References. Hixson, N.

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Teaching Anthropology

MAY 8, 2023

I first trialed active learning strategies while teaching at the University of Oxford, where one of the challenges of teaching anthropology is the diverse background of the students (Bastide, 2012). A space for learning: An analysis of research on active learning spaces. References Bastide, H. Three challenges in teaching anthropology.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 30, 2024

From their responses, and analysis by PISA researchers, several themes stand out, including disconnection from school and teachers, a lack of motivation and a sense that math does not clearly connect to their real lives. They also were more likely to report that they saw fewer potential benefits from studying math.

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Digital Promise

APRIL 25, 2019

In 2012, the National Research Council released A Framework for K-12 Science Education , a consensus report that outlined how research in the learning sciences should inform the development of a new set of science standards. Next steps.

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ED Surge

APRIL 13, 2023

Khurana argues that the strategy is to make connections between existing players and colleges, and to bring in the expertise and research experience of professors at MIT and Harvard. That might include doing research, building tech tools or helping manage organizations. The idea is to be a catalyst within this ecosystem,” she said.

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