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NOVEMBER 15, 2019

CHICAGO — At first glance, it looks like your standard recess: Elementary school students, bundled up in warm jackets, hats and mittens, laugh and play outside on a crisp, cloudy fall day in the Windy City. But can resolving the broad range of elementary school conflicts be as simple as learning to play fair?

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OCTOBER 24, 2017

For years, research has shown that socioeconomic status is associated with differences in school readiness, cognitive development and achievement. The reality is that most interventions do not fundamentally address cognitive capacity, and they are not working quickly enough.

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MAY 18, 2020

And research shows that children who eat nutritious meals, especially breakfast, are more available to learning and cognitive development. Lunch ladies are often the unsung heroes of the school,” says Kujawa. It’s hard for students to focus on academics—or really anything else—if they’re hungry. It’s very rewarding.”

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AUGUST 3, 2016

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. In his view, there was hope for every child.

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AUGUST 30, 2023

But there’s been less attention paid to what math skills students need early in life, to set them up for elementary school in the first place. For early learners, exposure to math concepts can be at the mercy of their family’s economic status or related factors like whether their parents are college-educated.

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OCTOBER 29, 2024

It’s not why Tim Huber, principal at Harris Creek Elementary School, part of North Carolina’s Wake County Public School System, is seeing more and more children in the early grades show up to school wearing smartwatches. “It The psychology of fear—it’s extremely powerful,” says Huber, the elementary school principal. “We

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