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Hundreds of STEM Grants Have Been Terminated. K-12 Math Educators Will Lose Out

ED Surge

Bruce McLaren has committed his career to understanding how education technologies, especially digital games and intelligent-tutoring systems, can help children learn. In 2023, the American Psychological Association reported that math anxiety is prevalent and can last well into adulthood. One such game is called Decimal Point.

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Experts offer black and Latino college students 8 tips for success, from studying together to becoming a tutor

The Hechinger Report

To see yourself as the helper rather than the help is really psychologically important for kids.”. Whenever the opportunity arises, sign up to be a tutor. Treisman says that being a tutor has an enormous psychological benefit for black and Latino students. It also helps them learn the material more thoroughly.

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Jobless college students are being given summer jobs to mentor younger peers

The Hechinger Report

Several programs aimed at keeping incoming freshmen on track for college and others that provide tutoring to elementary students are scooping up jobless undergraduates as mentors in relationships that benefit everyone. So he applied to the Tennessee Tutoring Corps. I had no second option lined up,” Oates said.

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To Serve Bilingual Students, This Future Teacher Will Draw on Her Own Experience

ED Surge

With each move, she had to learn a new language and adjust to a different culture. Before, I wanted to study psychology … but I didn't know exactly what path I wanted to take. There was a shift in culture and in school. I [want to help students] overcome language barriers and cultural barriers.

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A college where the graduation rate for black students has been 0 percent — for years

The Hechinger Report

ASHTABULA, Ohio — Alexis Turner listened carefully as the administrators at the freshman orientation for Kent State University at Ashtabula ticked through the student groups she could join on campus that fall: English Society, Psychology Club, Student Veterans Association. This story also appeared in Eye on Ohio.

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Powerful Learning is Collaborative and Connected

Digital Promise

Knowledge is built through social interactions 1 in a collaborative culture 2. Peer teaching strategies give students the opportunity to learn from one another and contribute to a culture of collaboration. Annual Review of Psychology, 49, 345–375. Situated Cognition and the Culture of Learning. – Feb.,

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In dark days of coronavirus, acts of generosity can restore students’ faith in higher education and each other

The Hechinger Report

Meanwhile, cultural institutions are relaxing rules and paywalls to offer much-needed diversion, like free streaming of Broadway musicals and plays, operas, online art programs and free downloads of books from public libraries. Related: Coronavirus is poised to inflame inequality in schools. Just about everyone she knows has gone home.

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