Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Six Massachusetts colleges and universities, alongside the state’s Department of Higher Education, are testing their hypothesis that free, culturally relevant textbooks can improve student performance. Her experiences couldn’t be further away from the examples her elementary school books centered on?farming.

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Textbooks Culture Students Participation 190

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

Transcend’s leaders consider their work “research and development” for schools and districts that are redesigning their models because they apply learning sciences, motivation sciences and implementation sciences to the biggest questions school operators are wrestling with.

Education 128

Education Schools Middle School Middle School 128

Edsurge

MAY 13, 2019

In early May, students were finishing up a website design unit in their computer science class, which follows the curriculum designed by RePublic Schools , a charter school network based in Nashville, Tenn. The curriculum, which is aligned to the AP Computer Science framework, is free, but teacher training is not.

Schools 167

Schools Science Middle School Middle School 167

Edsurge

AUGUST 3, 2016

Many years before formally learning about how gears work, playing with gears “did more mathematical development than anything I was taught in elementary school,” he wrote, noting that he later created mental gear-driven multiplication tables and equations with variables. Did you ever hear about a game advertised as being easy?

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Knowledge Curriculum Design Intelligence Math 129

Edsurge

MAY 2, 2022

Bethany Collins, who taught at middle schools in the Los Angeles area for more than eight years, left teaching in January after maternity leave wiped out her sick days—and her district told her she couldn’t take any more paid time off, even if she or her daughter tested positive for COVID. I was just drowning.” Empathy evaporated.

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Teachers Coaching Testing Middle School 216