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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. These differences include the areas of the brain responsible for working memory, impulse regulation, visuospatial skills, language and cognitive control.

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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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Coaching Fairness Elementary School Elementary School 159

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AUGUST 3, 2016

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). Seymour’s genius goes far beyond the academic.

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Knowledge Curriculum Design Intelligence Math 128

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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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Communication Elementary School Elementary School Grades 196