Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

A growing number of high school students are looking for opportunities to do academic research, hoping to add ‘published author’ to their list of achievements when they apply to colleges. But experts say that the trend of high school research, while well-intentioned, has plenty of pitfalls. They may be playing sports.

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eSchool News

JUNE 28, 2024

Those reasons may include: lack of writing skills, insecurity around writing skills, struggles with time management, confusion about the topic, missing grammar and organizational skills, having no motivation or interest, missing real-world relevance, poor work ethic, lack of access to resources, and home/personal life stress.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

And the infusion of algorithms is leading to questions—ethical questions and practical questions and philosophical questions—about how far higher education should go in bringing in artificial intelligence, and who decides what the algorithms should look like. They must be peer-reviewable. They must be transparent.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

DECEMBER 14, 2018

The context is a statewide conversation about higher education standards for Kentucky high school graduates. Basic skills aren’t enough these days for many/most American high school graduates to succeed in postsecondary and/or ‘get a job and take care of themselves.’ “Those kids are held accountable right now.”

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Dangerously Irrelevant

DECEMBER 16, 2015

My local high school recently was named the top high school in Iowa by Niche.com , a school and college ranking site. Today the Iowa Department of Education issued its first-ever school report cards. Today the Iowa Department of Education issued its first-ever school report cards.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MARCH 24, 2016

John Hattie, Professor of Education at the University of Auckland, spent 15 years synthesizing the vast body of peer-reviewed, meta-analytical research pertaining to student achievement. Thinking about charter schools. Sometimes we see short-term score bumps but they always wash out by the upper grades.

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