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4 Long-Term Benefits of Bilingual Education

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From an early age, the children living in this multicultural city are exposed to a number of languages at home, in their preschools, and in their communities. These schools can focus on your mother tongue, English, as well as other languages that your child might be interested in acquiring. A Boost in Cognitive Development.

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To Be Ready for Kindergarten, Teachers and Researchers Say Social-Emotional Skills Are Key

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Ready or not, across the country, a new crop of kindergarteners has entered the K-12 school system. Their teachers will spend these early weeks determining where the 5- and 6-year-olds are developmentally, what academic, social and emotional skills they bring, and what support they need to set them up for a successful school year.

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What to Know About the Rise of Smartwatches Among Kids

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All year long, schools have been grappling with how to respond to student cellphone use, which, according to many educators, had become almost constant among kids in older grades and increasingly disruptive to instruction. What many schools have not tackled, over the same period, is the rise of smartwatches among younger kids.

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It’s Time to Ditch the Idea of Edtech Disruption. But What Comes Next?

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COVID-19 was edtech’s big moment, and while digital tools kept learning going for many families and schools, they also faltered. This way of thinking about technology has been core to many pitches made by edtech providers to schools and, I’d argue, it has outsized influence on how most of us think about edtech. or “does LOGO work?”

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The Case for Expanding the Definition of 'Personalization' to Meet the Needs of the Whole Child

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Decades of research on child and adolescent development has shed powerful light on how we can best support student development. But here's what we should all find unacceptable: We have yet to widely reflect that learning in how we educate students in our schools. math, literacy, science, social studies, foreign language, art).

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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. In a single school year, working memory training can yield gains equal to 1.5

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Parents Don't Need to Be Coding Experts, Just Willing to Learn With Their Children

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The one-time events are held in informal settings, such as museums, after-school programs and community centers and attendees don’t need prior experience because the facilitator provides a brief tutorial for the tool using videos and tips provided in the protocols. But the problem is not always lack of interest.

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