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MARCH 4, 2024

They attended a selective middle school, and were advanced enough to be taking algebra in eighth instead of ninth grade. But researchers set up a review class to test a theory about the best way to study for a test. Learning through errors was twice as powerful based on instructional time. “You

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Future of Learning newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes every Wednesday with trends and top stories about education innovation. They gave them real-world problems to solve, they sent them outside to explore, they prioritized hands-on projects.

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Digital Promise

JUNE 5, 2019

Yet, as we shared previously , 18 teachers from three districts in the League of Innovative Schools have pushed themselves to do just this. Challenge Based Learning (CBL) is a type of project-based learning distinguished by its insistence that students engage with, investigate , and act on authentic and motivating challenges.

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MARCH 18, 2024

Related: Middle schools are experimenting with themes like math, sustainability and the arts. At Ursula Kuhr Schule , students in the school’s woodworking lab build birdhouses and toy cars. Related: The path to a career could start in middle school Other European countries are seeing similar labor market needs.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 15, 2020

Pyne Arts Magnet School in Lowell. But despite their vastly different student populations, the two schools share similar educational philosophies. Lowell chose three to focus on through this partnership. Acera raised outside funding to support the work, making their support free to Pyne Arts.).

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Digital Promise

JULY 21, 2020

Not only is it important, it’s more urgent now than ever—which is why we’re sharing our new Real World Learning Playbook. Digital Promise has been working with districts, leaders, and researchers to identify pressing challenges in supporting real world learning opportunities for students since 2018.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 4, 2020

The Seattle School Board is taking steps to dismantle a gifted and talented program at one of its middle schools to make room for a more racially inclusive curriculum. But, too often, gifted and talented programs create separate tracks that end up creating segregated systems within schools.

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MAY 26, 2019

But what else was she learning in this maker space? With scarcely a month left in the school year, why was it worth spending time making videos rather than covering the next academic standard? also known as Community Middle, part of the Albemarle County district. These aren’t just for the maker space.

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

I visited many elementary and middle schools where students, with bulging headphones wrapped over their heads, stared at separate computers, each learning something different at the same moment. “It’s a mind shift,” said Kristina Zeiser, a senior researcher at AIR.

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OCTOBER 2, 2023

These and similar scenes from public schools around the country are more than just young learners having fun with recycled materials. This is STEM education in action: Hands-on projects help students develop critical thinking skills while sparking interest in science, technology, engineering and math.

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APRIL 7, 2017

But several trends once relegated mainly to progressive schools or alternative schools for at-risk students are reaching the mainstream and have even been embraced by entire states. The adoption of the Common Core standards led many other schools to try the model , too. Preschools and elementary schools across the U.S

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 21, 2018

“These studies are important because they tell us that teacher-student relationships matter,” said Tyrone Howard, a professor of education at the University of California, Los Angeles, who is writing a book on the research about students’ relationships with their teachers and how well they learn. ”I

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MAY 2, 2020

A network of charter schools in California and Washington developed the Summit Learning Program for their students almost a decade ago; the model got a boost in 2014 from Facebook engineers after Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan, visited a Summit middle school. How do they draw that something is happening?”.

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MARCH 27, 2019

Destiny Reyes, 18, spends one school day each week at the New England Aquarium and much of her schoolwork is built around research opportunities there. When Destiny Reyes started elementary school, she felt highly motivated. Like most young children, she liked learning new things, and she excelled at school.

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MAY 23, 2023

They also organized an in-person component: Once a week, students would gather in reserved classrooms in a local elementary school, for activities such as science experiments, project-based learning and reading groups. SpaRRk Academy hallways are filled with art projects and classroom work from the students.

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JANUARY 16, 2017

(From left to right) Sixth graders Mia DeMore, Maria DeAndrade, and Stephen Boulas make a number line in their math class at Walsh Middle School in Framingham, Massachusetts, one of 132 “Basecamp” schools piloting the Personalized Learning Platform created by the Summit charter school network. Photo: Chris Berdik.

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 13, 2018

This session begins by defining learner variability and launching into a 360° film called, Failure to Communicate, featuring middle school students who portray how their characters are unique learners. The film shows how, after coaching, one teacher taps the research to turn her class around.

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OCTOBER 14, 2020

Before Rockville Centre detracked math in the ninth and 10th grades, for example, it added support math classes in middle school so that all students graduated eighth grade having completed algebra. Wells Middle School, D.C.’s s newest SEM school, opened just last year. All education should be enriching.

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MARCH 26, 2018

At the time, The New York City Department of Education was developing a research division focused solely on student motivation. Alicia Wolcott, a school advisor for Eskolta School Research and Design, a New York-based education-consulting firm that is working with the New York City Department of Education on academic and personal behaviors.

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OCTOBER 29, 2020

Mendoza’s involvement in civic participation started in middle school, when she signed up for the All City Council Student Union, a student-led group sponsored by the Oakland school district that gives students a voice in school district decision-making. Credit: Alison Yin for The Hechinger Report.

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

The Connecticut school is part of a new generation of inclusive science and technology high schools that have become more popular in the last decade. Students review material for a final exam in biomedical science at Science and Technology Magnet High School of Southeastern Connecticut. Photo: Kathleen Lucadamo.

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