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EdSurge’s 2020 Year in Review: The Top 10 K-12 Stories, as Chosen by You

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What Does Good Classroom Design Look Like in the Age of Social Distancing? by Robert Dillon Returning to school buildings after months away was likely a stressful event, wrote space design expert and former administrator Robert Dillon. But researchers have been trying to answer them for years. Actually, Yes.

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Can Space Activate Learning? UC Irvine Seeks to Find Out With $67M Teaching Facility

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The data-gathering is fairly simple: The system’s dashboard has a set of “buttons” named with about 20 common classroom practices, such as lecturing, group discussion or video demonstration. The student researchers click on the buttons when they see those activities happening in class.

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EdSurge’s Year in Review: The Top 10 K-12 Stories of 2018

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The Future of Education Depends on Social Emotional Learning: Here’s Why by Giancarlo Brotto Research indicates that students who receive instruction in social-emotional skills—such as agreeableness, conscientiousness and emotional stability—not only perform better in school, but are more successful in careers and life in general.

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