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Should High School Students Do Academic Research?

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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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Science achievement gaps begin as early as kindergarten

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Science achievement gaps present between racial, ethnic and socio-economic groups in the eighth grade already exist when those children are in kindergarten, according to new research published in Educational Researcher, a peer-reviewed journal of the American Educational Research Association.

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As Colleges Move Away From the SAT, Will Admissions Algorithms Step In?

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Back before the internet made it possible—and popular—for people to document their lives in real time, teenagers found themselves preserved between the pages of their high school yearbooks—forever young. We encourage schools to define success as four-year, or slightly longer, graduation rates,” Schaeffer explains.

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Top STEM Schools in Georgia Host High-Tech Personalized Classes Without Hours of Screentime

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Marc Pedersen Paulding County High School Students At Paulding County High School in Dallas, Georgia, science classes are messy and alive. Marc Pedersen leads the biotechnology career pathway classes at Paulding County High School, a magnet school in Georgia about one hour away from Atlanta.

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With Innovation and Empathy, Remote Learning Becomes Accessible for All Students

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Accounting for the widest range of learners with different abilities, backgrounds and motivations is the only way to provide all individuals with fair and equal opportunities to learn. When he transitioned his high school classroom in Phoenix to distance learning, Neal was already using ClassDojo as a way to track positive behaviors.

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A Pilot Test of Revision Assistant and What We Learned in the Process

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Last year, Sammy Spencer, a High School English teacher in Southern California, ran a pilot program using Revision Assistant in her school. Here’s her story: Last Fall, my El Camino Real High School colleagues and I set out to change the way we teach writing. This is a fair criticism.

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