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How efficacy studies improve literacy instruction

eSchool News

Their research program encompasses studies with a wide variety of school districts, to ensure that their data reflects our nation’s student population and teachers’ levels of training and instructional approaches. What the research said “Data from the four implementations studied to date are encouraging,” said Myers.

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Can AI help reduce math anxiety?

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The 16- to 18-year-old students queried are participants in this years MathWorks Math Modeling Challenge (M3 Challenge), an annual internet-based, intensive math modeling contest organized by SIAM. Of the hundreds of participating teams, nine finalist teams were selected from across the U.S., How can AI help reduce math anxiety?

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Look to the Science: Understanding how Mind, Brain and Education Science can Inform Educational Practices

k12 Digest

The impact of technology on the human brain is still being studied, but there is a body of research which is decades old and has increased its capacity to inform education with advances in medical imaging technology. The effect of Brain Based Learning on academic achievement: A meta-analytical study. McClintic, C., & Klimek, K.

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Smithsonian and Carolina Biological Announce New Study Results and Effectiveness of their K – 5 Science Curriculum

eSchool News

–( BUSINESS WIRE )– The Smithsonian Science Education Center and Carolina Biological announced new independent study results showing the Smithsonian Science for the Classroom curriculum improved students scores in N.C. Students in grades 3 through 5 were part of the study from rural and diverse North and South Carolina.

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Students, educators feel positive about AI’s impact, but fear its misuse

eSchool News

Although 78 percent of all survey participants feel positive about the impacts that AI is having on education, 74 percent noted that the volume and availability of AI is overwhelming. In addition to feeling they are shortcutting learning, 50 percent of students report not knowing how to get the most benefit from AI in their studies.

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Ignite Reading Partners with UF Lastinger Center’s Florida Tutoring Advantage

eSchool News

Participating students have made impressive gains, averaging more than 2.5 Dayspring Academy announced results from its ongoing partnership with Ignite Reading to deliver online, one-to-one literacy tutoring for K through 1st graders.

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Digital Tools Key to Financial Literacy,According to Study by Certell and Project Tomorrow

eSchool News

. — The vast majority of high school students are not financially literate but respond well to economics and personal finance courses that include digital tools in their curriculum, according to a new study by Project Tomorrow and Certell, creator of the Poptential family of free, award-winning social studies course packages.

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