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Study: Students work harder when they think they are being watched

The Hechinger Report

Computerized instruction offers the promise of a technological version of a personal tutor, giving instant feedback and tailoring lessons for each child’s needs. Yet even advocates of educational technology recognize the motivating power of a human teacher to encourage a demoralized student or clear up a point of confusion.

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My Sister Taught Me to Have Empathy for Students in Middle School

ED Surge

In some ways, middle school is very much the same as it was a decade ago. In my own classroom, I recognize some of the hallmarks of the middle school years — changing voices, students spurting up three inches by the time May rolls around, and the awkwardness of being surrounded by so many developmental stages at once.

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What New Research Says About Fostering a ‘Sense of Belonging’ in Classrooms

ED Surge

That can be true with challenges like glitches in the federal financial aid forms or a student registration system, says Greg Walton, a psychology professor at Stanford University. And people have that history in their awareness and the fight that their communities have engaged in to be able to access education.

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Should College Become Part of High School?

ED Surge

All this year, Arensberg walked the halls of the same high school building and ate in the same cafeteria as before, but now most of her classes earned her college credit, and if she stays on track, she’ll get an associate degree at the same time she receives her high school diploma. How is the program going?

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SEL at Scale: How Edtech Can Support Meaningful Social and Emotional Learning

Digital Promise

But educators may not have the capacity to address their students’ many needs, especially in high schools where teachers spend less time with more students, and where adolescents may be less receptive to adult guidance. Here is where the reach, flexibility, and familiarity of educational technology (edtech) can be leveraged.

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When Student Anxiety Gets in the Way of Attending School

ED Surge

But schools are stretched thin for mental health staff, with as many as 100,000 more mental health professionals needed around the country. A school district in Virginia even constructed a middle school building with extra glass in the hopes that more natural light will serve as a palliative.

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Why We Need to Talk About Teacher Trauma

ED Surge

“We need to talk about the trauma of teaching through a pandemic,” urges Christopher Bowen, a STEM curriculum specialist for Johnson City Schools in Tennessee. As Bronx middle school teacher Roxanne Leak put it during an interview, “It’s unfortunate. Because as an educator, they just say, "Oh, you're just tired.