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

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Real-World Math Problems Many of the terminated awards had something to do with teaching future elementary and middle school math teachers how to meet the needs of more than one type of student. Its worth noting, they say, that they have to apply for federal funds through nonpartisan, peer-reviewed methods.

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My Greatest Teaching Problem Was Feedback. Here’s How Research Helped Me Solve It.

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I implemented writing reflections to help students recall their feedback from prior assignments and collaborated with a colleague to develop a teacher guided peer review system, which eventually yielded an app called Floop that made the peer review data visible and simpler to manage.

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Beyond simple search: The benefits of topic browsing in library databases

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Databases are essential for helping middle and high school students understand the value of research, appreciate the importance of validating sources, and make connections between different topics — all of which are necessary for building information literacy skills.

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New Research Proves Game-Based Learning Works—Here's Why That Matters

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Without proof of success, many school districts have opted not to adopt new technologies. students who played edgames outperformed their peers on standardized tests. From the beginning, the study was intended to be rigorous enough to be published in a peer reviewed academic journal regardless of the outcome.

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Ferguson’s Career Guidance Center Named 2021 CODiE Award Finalist for Best College & Career Readiness Solution

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Users in middle school continuing all the way through adulthood will find valuable and actionable information for their professional lives. For 80 years, Infobase has been a reliable, authoritative resource providing flexible options for accessing educational content whether in school, at the library, or at home.

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How to incorporate real-world connections into any subject area

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Encourage collaboration: Students excel in collaborative learning environment, such as group projects and peer reviews where they can engage with their classmates. Rethinking content teaching at the middle level: An interdisciplinary approach. Middle School Journal , 50 (2), 1727. link] Moser, K.

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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. Department of Education.