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How Belonging and Productive Struggle Can Motivate Students in Math

Digital Promise

While parts of the education system have incorporated tailored methods to keep students engaged, mathematics is often still taught in traditional, non-differentiated ways. By personalizing learning to incorporate these four elements of students’ lives, teachers can help students feel like they are just as much a “math person” as anyone else.

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What happens when college students discuss lab work in Spanish, philosophy in Chinese or opera in Italian?

The Hechinger Report

Traditional language learning in the U.S. Wilson wants to learn science-specific vocabulary and have Spanish skills “to communicate across barriers.” is in trouble. Is this approach an answer? Most kids don’t want to become a linguist or get a Ph.D. This fall there are five such language sections at Wesleyan.