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

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public schools is that 51 percent of all students come from low-income families. For years, research has shown that socioeconomic status is associated with differences in school readiness, cognitive development and achievement. Here are three ways to jumpstart learning for students of poverty. The “new normal” in U.S.

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Elevating Math Education Through Problem-Based Learning

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It’s an instructional approach where students learn by actively engaging in real-world, meaningful problems. Instead of traditional direct instruction, PBL in math encourages students to explore, discuss and understand mathematical concepts by solving problems collaboratively. You may have heard a lot about PBL in recent years.

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Journeying Back to Joy in the Classroom

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I was reviewing punctuation rules with my students, and I had to come to the climax of the lecture: semicolons! How was it possible that my students weren’t enjoying this as much as I was? When the time was up, the students in one row moved down the line and the process began again with a new partner. And so were the students.

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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 The Rise of Private Tutoring In China, millions of families participate in “ shadow education ,” or private tutoring that supplements the teaching students receive in schools. Jiao asks. “I

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Journeying Back to Joy in the Classroom

Faculty Focus

I was reviewing punctuation rules with my students, and I had to come to the climax of the lecture: semicolons! How was it possible that my students weren’t enjoying this as much as I was? When the time was up, the students in one row moved down the line and the process began again with a new partner. And so were the students.

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A Glimpse Into the Playful World of Seymour Papert

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He believed children’s cognitive development and scientific thinking grew through stages of self-constructed knowledge structures—and that they need to actively work through exploratory activities that allow them to discover and construct their own world. While a visionary, he is also very much a realist.

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