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This School Librarian Thinks Her Job Is the ‘Best-Kept Secret in Education’

ED Surge

She teaches concepts as wide-ranging as American Sign Language, critical thinking, typing, conducting research and writing in cursive. Its the best-kept secret in education, to be a school librarian, Rhue says with pride. I had earned my masters in the art of teaching elementary education. I'm an educator.

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A Close Look at Competency-Based Learning

Cult of Pedagogy

The question itself highlighted the limitations of traditional grading, a system that has been shown to be problematic by so many people in education circles but still remains as the most common way schools manage and assess student learning. “And then additionally, they’re building their research skills.

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Should High School Students Do Academic Research?

ED Surge

Pushing students to get involved in research early can also amplify inequities among those who don’t have access to expensive research programs or opportunities at elite institutions. That’s not to say that teaching research skills in high school is bad, though.

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The Power of Claim-Evidence-Question

Catlin Tucker

Teachers can leverage the power of thinking routines developed by Project Zero at Harvard’s Graduate School of Education to help students develop their metacognitive muscles. This phase underscores the significance of critical evaluation, research skills, and reasoning.

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Defending the liberal arts: How my students took the higher-learning plunge, from the banks of the St. Lawrence

The Hechinger Report

Lawrence Seaway remade our region, a liberal arts education is transformational to a student’s intellect. These are questions of a sort every thinking person confronts every day. My students were starting to figure things out, using their critical thinking skills. Sign up for our Higher Education newsletter.

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