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7 programs that are transforming education

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The 2019 Fuel Education Transformation Award winners are: • Achieve Online School (Colorado) – for using online curriculum with a blended component to provide at-risk students with flexible options, individualized learning solutions and robust extracurricular opportunities like archery, rock climbing and ropes courses.

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Friday 5: STEAM education in action

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An integrated STEAM education also puts students on the path to success with higher test scores, stronger attendance records, better disciplinary records, and increased engagement and graduation rates. As STEM has risen in prominence over the past decade, arts education has yet to achieve the same recognition and integration.

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14-year-old Named America’s Top Young Scientist for Inventing an AI Handheld Pesticide Detector

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During testing, the device achieved an accuracy rate of identifying pesticide residues on spinach and tomatoes of greater than 85%, meeting the project’s objectives for effectiveness and speed. This year’s winner was paired with Aditya Banerji, Senior Research Engineer of 3M’s Corporate Research Process Laboratory.

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Top STEM Schools in Georgia Host High-Tech Personalized Classes Without Hours of Screentime

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Tables are covered with high-tech laboratory equipment such as atomic absorption spectrometers, autoclaves, and laboratory water baths. Students must be high achievers in middle school with recommendations from math and science teachers, in addition to high test scores. What they are doing is incredible.”

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The Secret to Learning Any New Language May Be Your Motivation

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Achievement is not comparable.” Shenhav points to video games that, despite being difficult, help players to achieve “greater-than-expected outcomes” because they contain “rewards that happen frequently and are surprising.” “The Of course, not everyone has access to an intensive, in-person training program run by the U.S. government.

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How the Pandemic May Help More Students See Themselves as Scientists

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However, unanticipated roadblocks tested our own resolve—giving us our own experience of struggling through science. Our research's next stage called for showing video highlights of these mentoring experiences to students in local high schools and engaging them in self-reflective exercises to boost their science motivation and achievement.

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Should Schools Teach the Scientific Method? New Book Says Maybe Not

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They said, students should work in laboratories and do science to learn science. That was the beginning of the laboratory method. You've got the pressure from state agencies, so you have states and districts focused on student achievement-test scores. That was the justification for why it was in schools.

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