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Research: The Influence of Socioeconomic Status on Learning

TeachThought

Research: The Influence of Socioeconomic Status on Learning contributed by Michael Mirra Abstract Diversity has been at the forefront of educational discussions over the last few years. When we think about having a diverse classroom we think of ethnicity, race, gender, nationality, religion, and sexual orientation. It is easy for us to forget about socioeconomic status.

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Two Programs with Fresh Solutions to the Teacher Shortage

Cult of Pedagogy

Listen to the interview with Kimberly Eckert ( transcript ): Sponsored by Edge•U Badges and EVERFI We’ve been hearing about a teacher shortage for a while now, certainly since the pandemic, and multiple studies show that many states are seeing record high numbers of teacher turnovers and vacancies. In 2022, we explored some of the reasons teachers are leaving the classroom , so we won’t go into them here.

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Young children misbehave. Some are suspended for acting their age

The Hechinger Report

JOHNSBURG, Ill. — A group of fifth grade boys trailed into the conference room in the front office of Johnsburg Elementary School and sat at the table, their feet dangling from the chairs. “It was brought to my attention yesterday that there was an incident at football,” Principal Bridget Belcastro said to the group. The students tried to explain: One boy pushed a kid, another jumped on the ball, and yet another jumped on the boy on the ball.

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Is It Time for a National Conversation About Eliminating Letter Grades?

ED Surge

As Joshua Eyler was researching a book on what brain science tells us about how to improve teaching , one issue kept coming up as an underlying problem: The way schools and colleges grade student work is at odds with effective teaching. The science says kids need to feel free to try things and fail, and that the deepest learning comes when failure happens and the student figures out how to course-correct, Eyler says.

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Richard Feynman On Knowing Versus Understanding

TeachThought

Richard Feynman On Knowing Versus Understanding by TeachThought Staff Who is Richard Feynman? Richard Feynman, born in 1918, was a theoretical physicist whose work in quantum mechanics earned him the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1965. According to nobelprize.org , Feynman obtained his B.Sc. in 1939 at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and studied “at Princeton University, where he obtained his Ph.D. in 1942. “He was Research Assistant at Princeton (1940-1941), Professor of Theor

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Teaching the Judicial Branch

Passion for Social Studies

While the United States runs smoothly now, this has not always happened. It took trials and tribulations to form different departments, appoint leaders, and establish law. Thankfully, the branches of government all have essential yet distinct roles. This allows them to focus on specific aspects to strengthen and successfully run the United States without conflict.

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OPINION: Artificial intelligence can be game-changing for students with special needs

The Hechinger Report

Much has been made of artificial intelligence’s potential to revolutionize education. AI is making it increasingly possible to break down barriers so that no student is ever left behind. This potential is real, but only if we are ensuring that all learners benefit. Far too many students, especially those with special needs, do not progress as well as their peers do academically.

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Technology Tools For Interactive Learning

TeachThought

Technology Tools for Interactive Learning contributed by Edelyn Bontuyan What makes traditional learning click? In-person learning. As a teacher, your students look up to you to impart knowledge in a format and manner they can absorb fast and easy. How do you achieve that? You conduct Q&A sessions, set up discussions, conduct practicals, lead peer teaching sessions, and more.

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Prepare for Fall Multi Day seminars!

Teaching American History

Discussion of primary documents. A supportive and engaged group of educators. Historic locations. Free professional development. What more could you ask for? Applications open soon for our Fall 2024 Multi Day seminars ! We are hosting seminars on a variety of topics in American history and politics. The application will be open April 8-April 30. Some of our topics include: The Underground Railroad at The Underground Railroad Heritage Center in Niagara Falls, NY West Coast Immigration at the Ang

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Learning From Snapshots of Lost Fossils

Sapiens

Not all fossil discoveries happen in the field. In museum archives, researchers found photos of remains from Paleolithic children who had belonged to a group of early Homo sapiens in Eurasia. Please note that this article includes images of human remains. ANOTHER SET OF TEETH “These teeth don’t belong to Egbert!” In a museum basement, we huddled over a black-and-white photograph showing pieces of a lower jawbone and its loose teeth.

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Researchers Have Identified the Starkest Cases of School District Segregation

ED Surge

Frankenmuth School District has about 1,400 students, nearly 91 percent of whom are white. Its poverty rate is about 5 percent. In contrast, to its west, Saginaw City School District is home to nearly 5,200 students, 81 percent of them students of color. Its poverty rate is 50 percent. This large economic and racial divide between two adjacent districts in Michigan shows that school segregation persists in the 21st century.

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Celebrating Student-Led Art at Mineola Public Schools

Digital Promise

The post Celebrating Student-Led Art at Mineola Public Schools appeared first on Digital Promise.

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OPINION: Our workforce must be ready to help growing numbers of students who come to school learning English

The Hechinger Report

Our nation’s public school population is changing, fueled by growth in the number of multilingual learners. These students made up 10.3 percent of U.S. public school enrollment in 2020, up from 8.1 percent in 2000. Spanish was the most-reported home language among English learners in 2020, followed by Arabic. Today, there are some 5 million multilingual learners.

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Overcoming Polarization: Building Bridges in the College Classroom

Institute for Citizens & Scholars

The Faculty Institute is overcoming polarization in the college classroom with innovative approaches to build bridges and foster dialogue across difference.

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‘My Job, Like the Anaconda in My Dream, Is Consuming Me.’

ED Surge

The original version of this essay was published on Medium. I detest when people talk about their dreams. It’s similar to listening to a 4-year-old tell you about their day. It takes more time than you have and never makes sense. Most of the time, I don’t even remember my dreams. Except for the rare ones that connect to real life. These dreams stick; there’s a logical glue to them that provides insight.

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Using Data Visualizations to Boost Student Engagement in Humanities

Digital Promise

The post Using Data Visualizations to Boost Student Engagement in Humanities appeared first on Digital Promise.

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‘It was the most unfair thing’: Disobedience, discipline and racial disparity

The Hechinger Report

TOLEDO, Ohio – The sound of his teacher smacking his desk jolted Marquan into consciousness, and his head jerked up. “Wake up,” his teacher said. Marquan hadn’t slept much the night before, and the words came out before he was fully coherent. “Watch out before you make me mad,” he said. His teacher turned and asked if that was a threat. The 16-year-old said no, he was just startled, but it was too late – he was sent out of the classroom and given a two-day suspension.

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On Staff Meal: Fieldwork Reflections of a Line Cook-Anthropologist

Anthropology News

If you had the opportunity to work at a restaurant where eating savory bites of smoked bison ribeye and maple roast duck was a daily occurrence, would you be compelled to take it? Though the perk of eating amazing food was not my main reason for beginning fieldwork in the restaurant industry, I certainly haven’t minded it. For over two years, working at Owamni, a James-Beard-award-winning Indigenous restaurant, and NATIFS (North American Traditional Indigenous Food Systems), their partnering cul

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5 Steps to Ensure Your Classroom Technology Refresh Delivers

ED Surge

Is your classroom technology falling short of its promise of changing the classroom dynamic? It's a question that often lingers in the background as district leaders navigate the vast array of options available. From projectors to interactive whiteboards, Chromebooks to iPads, the choices seem endless, and personal preferences can be tightly held. In a setting where budgets are tight, the pressure to make the right decision weighs heavily.

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Where to Find Digital Promise at #AERA24 in Philadelphia!

Digital Promise

The post Where to Find Digital Promise at #AERA24 in Philadelphia! appeared first on Digital Promise.

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OPINION: Banning legacy admissions will deliver another blow to the children of Black alumni

The Hechinger Report

As we made our way down one of the city streets that bisect the Yale campus, cars zooming by, my daughter Mari swept her wide-eyed gaze across the grand Gothic cathedrals that are Yale’s residential colleges. “I didn’t expect it to be so … fancy,” she said, her voice filled with wonder. She was six, and I knew “fancy” was her word for impressive, extravagant.

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ON THE PODCAST: Writing as Healing with Stacey Joy

Heinemann Blog

Welcome to Writing as Healing, a Heinemann podcast series focused on writing as a tool to increase healing in students and educators. We know that academic learning doesn’t happen without social and emotional support, and writing, as a key literacy, is uniquely positioned in every classroom to do both. This week Liz is joined by Stacey Joy, a self-published poet and California 5th grade teacher, to talk about composing poetry on the freeway, writing the golden shovel, and mentoring young teacher

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Designing a Standards-aligned Choice Board (with AI)

Catlin Tucker

Choice boards are a fantastic tool for honoring learner variability and providing students with meaningful choices. Not every student enjoys the same task, so giving them options is critical to maximizing their motivation and focus in a lesson. Choice boards allow us to honor our students’ preferences, needs, and interests, making their learning experience more engaging and effective.

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Defining Religion: PowerPoint

ShortCutsTV

This PowerPoint Presentation is designed to be a fairly simple introduction to the topic of religion by suggesting how it can be defined in terms of three main criteria: It introduces students, in other words, to some instances of how religious behaviour differs from other types of non-religious (secular) behaviour.

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Hechinger’s school discipline project: How we did it

The Hechinger Report

The Hechinger Report spent the last year investigating a major subset of school discipline: suspensions and expulsions for vague, subjective categories like defiance, disruption and disorderly conduct. We started this project with some basic questions: How often were states suspending students for these reasons? What kinds of behavior do educators say constitute defiance or disorder, anyway?

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What Students Have to Say About AP African American Studies

Education Week - Social Studies

Students at Henry Clay High School in Lexington, Ky., share their takeaways from the pilot course that officially launches this fall.

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The List Essay: 10 Ways Writing Is Thinking

Heinemann Blog

Kim Culbertson's 100-Word Stories: A Short Form for Expansive Writing released Fall 2023.

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GA Conference 2024 - Train strike news.

Living Geography

I'm afraid to say I won't be at the GA Conference this year. I shall miss out on it for the first time in many years due to the train strikes affecting the tickets I booked months ago. I'm sorry not to be there for Denise Freeman's Presidential lecture, and catching up with the whole geography community, and also a chance to congratulate Steve Brace in person for his recent appointment as Chief Executive of the GA.

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Is early childhood education ready for AI?

The Hechinger Report

Interest in artificial intelligence has surged among K-12 and college educators, who are looking at ways it can be used to support both students and teachers. But in the early childhood arena, those discussions are still in the beginning stages. I asked Isabelle Hau, the executive director of Stanford Accelerator for Learning, to share about the potential benefits and challenges of AI in early learning.

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Learn more about: “Blood and Soil Liberalism: The Political Economy of Native American Assimilation Policy”

Political Science Now

Project Title: Blood and Soil Liberalism: The Political Economy of Native American Assimilation Policy Thomas Klemm, University of Michigan Thomas Klemm is a Political Science Phd candidate (ABD) at the University of Michigan. His dissertation is looking at the political economy of Native assimilation policies, as well as their legacies in Indian Country today.

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What Are District Leaders Learning from Their Community About AI?

Digital Promise

The post What Are District Leaders Learning from Their Community About AI? appeared first on Digital Promise.

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Here's How AP African American Studies Helps Teachers 'Get Students to Think'

Education Week - Social Studies

Ahenewa El-Amin in Kentucky is teaching the second year pilot of the College Board's new course set to officially launch this fall.

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Mi hijo no sabe leer bien. ¿Qué debo hacer?

The Hechinger Report

Este podcast, Sold a Story, fue producido por by APM Reports y republicado con permiso. La mitad de los alumnos hispanos de cuarto grado en Estados Unidos no saben leer a un nivel básico. Esta y más revelaciones fueron expuestas en ‘Sold a Story’, una investigación original de APM Reports, que puedes escuchar en Noticias Univision en Uforia App y en todas las plataformas de podcasts. 2: Mi hijo no sabe leer bien.

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The Silenced Text: Field Experiments on Gendered Experiences of Political Participation

Political Science Now

The Silenced Text: Field Experiments on Gendered Experiences of Political Participation By Alan N. Yan , University of California, Berkeley and Rachel Bernhard , University of Oxford Who gets to “speak up” in politics? Whose voices are silenced? We conducted two field experiments to understand how harassment shapes the everyday experiences of politics for men and women in the United States today.

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Collective Leadership in Action: Reflections from the League Convening

Digital Promise

The post Collective Leadership in Action: Reflections from the League Convening appeared first on Digital Promise.

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Effectively Teaching the Four Genres of Writing to Students

Heinemann Blog

The content of this post has been lightly adapted from A Guide to the Writing Workshop, 3–5 , a component of the Units of Study in Writing, 3–5 sets.

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Students with disabilities often snared by subjective discipline rules

The Hechinger Report

For the first 57 minutes of the basketball game between two Bend, Oregon, high school rivals, Kyra Rice stood at the edges of the court taking yearbook photos. With just minutes before the end of the game, she was told she had to move. Kyra pushed back: She had permission to stand near the court. The athletic director got involved, Kyra recalled. She let a swear word or two slip.