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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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PROOF POINTS: Only a quarter of federally funded education innovations benefited students, report says

The Hechinger Report

Under this program, called Investing in Innovation or i3, the federal government gave out $1.4 The low success rate for new ideas is “psychologically disappointing,” said Barbara Goodson, lead author of the report and an expert in educational research at the consulting firm Abt Global. The tutoring seemed to harm them.

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PROOF POINTS: Why are kids still struggling in school four years after the pandemic?

The Hechinger Report

This educator quit her public school teaching job in 2022 and has since been tutoring students to help them catch up from pandemic learning losses. 15, 2024, documented widespread psychological distress among teenage girls and preteen boys since the pandemic. Chronic absenteeism is another big factor.

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Powerful Learning is Collaborative and Connected

Digital Promise

Connected learning can happen on a local scale by fostering connections with businesses, places of worship, government agencies, and museums where students can reach an authentic audience. Annual Review of Psychology, 49, 345–375. Kulik Educational Outcomes of Tutoring: A Meta-analysis of Findings. Educational Researcher, Vol.

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How a disgraced method of diagnosing learning disabilities persists in our nation’s schools

The Hechinger Report

A cross-section of a brain scan sits on the desk of Tim Odegard, a professor of psychology at Middle Tennessee State University in Murfreesboro. government in 1977 asked that schools look for a “severe discrepancy between levels of ability and achievement” when screening children for learning disabilities.

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Special education’s hidden racial gap

The Hechinger Report

Kenyatta Burn works with her tutor at the Durham Literacy Center on Thursday, Nov. Brown spent years pushing schools to follow the law, after giving up her job doing administrative support work for a government relations firm. 20, 2017, in Durham, N.C. Photo: AP Photo/Brian Blanco. She picked working at a McDonald’s.

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Some colleges start to confront a surprising reason students fail: Too many choices

The Hechinger Report

It doesn’t follow from that that more choice is always better,” said Barry Schwartz, professor of social theory and social action at Swarthmore College and the author of “The Paradox of Choice,” about the psychological ramifications of a supermarket culture that offers 175 kinds of salad dressings and 275 breakfast cereals.

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