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Hundreds of STEM Grants Have Been Terminated. K-12 Math Educators Will Lose Out

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Bruce McLaren has committed his career to understanding how education technologies, especially digital games and intelligent-tutoring systems, can help children learn. For more than a decade, McLaren and colleagues have brought games like this to Pittsburgh area schools to test their technology and learning theories.

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From school year to summer: Why reliable edtech matters to boost literacy

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World Book’s vetted, expert-authored content provides a model of reliability and credibility that educators and students can trust. Science, social studies, and even math teachers can access informational texts aligned to Texas standards directly through the platform’s educator tools. We extend these habits to our educators, too.

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Making Math Class Relevant to Real Life

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Some educators think its because math instruction is stuck in a rut. Henderson previously worked for the Utah Department of Education, where she noted that math is the biggest stumbling block for students trying to get a high school diploma. As for Hatch Valley High School, Goins reports, students there saw improvement in test scores.

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How ZIP Codes Determine a Child’s Future — and What We Can Do to Fight Back

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Two decades later, as an educator living in Brooklyn, I returned to visit my old elementary school, hoping for a spark of nostalgia. How Redlining and Gentrification Influence Education Policies This modern funding pattern isn’t accidental; it echoes a much older system of structural exclusion.

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Why I Believe We Need to Redesign Schools Around Decision-Making

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In grade school, I was a confident student who knew how to ace tests and please my teachers. It seems like luck that I eventually found my way to a lifelong profession as a K-8 educator, which has kept me eager to grow within it, unlike the spin-the-wheel decision-making I had during college. But it didn’t have to be this way.

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School Counselors Worry About Students’ Misguided Use of Social Media

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Educators and researchers are becoming increasingly worried how much kids are absorbing the digital information they find online about mental health, which kids are unlikely to fully grasp even if the information is trustworthy. I think we as educators have to have our own AI literacy, said Kemble.

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Why I Left the Classroom to Build a School Black Children Deserve

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A space where test scores didn’t define worth. It’s a buzzword I hear often these days on social media, especially in teacher groups where educators are reimagining their futures. My original vision was simply to help Black students and their families better navigate the public education system. Where learning is personalized.

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