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How to Improve Brain Function and Reverse Poverty's Impact on Student Learning

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For years, research has shown that socioeconomic status is associated with differences in school readiness, cognitive development and achievement. These differences include the areas of the brain responsible for working memory, impulse regulation, visuospatial skills, language and cognitive control.

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Can Chinese Edtech Regulations Stifle a Culture of Striving?

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On one hand, I really want to respect cognitive development, and on the other hand, I also dream to be a proud mom,” Hu says. “I With their advanced degrees and English-language skills, they represent a selective set of perspectives. I think that will be a huge problem going forward.” You just do it secretly,” she says.

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A Glimpse Into the Playful World of Seymour Papert

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Constructionism,” a term Seymour coined in the mid-’80s in connection with the academic work on LOGO, (the children’s computer programming language) and the education movement it spawned, became the basis for our work together at the MIT Media Lab (described in a book we published in 1991). While a visionary, he is also very much a realist.

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