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The Best, Free Financial Literacy Courses for Middle and High School

Cool Cat Teacher

In addition, a recent August 2023 report from the Council for Economic Education brings more news. These include saving money, planning for education and careers, and budgeting. This course is a great fit for economics, financial algebra, family and consumer science, business, and AVID courses.

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Why do we group students by manufacture date?

User Generated Education

Ken Robinson once famously said, “Students are educated in batches, according to age, as if the most important thing they have in common is their date of manufacture.” (Ken I have the privilege of working with 2nd through 6th graders in my gifted education classes and Kindergarten through 6th grade in my summer STEM and robotics camps.

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A media guide to ungrading

Robert Talbert, Ph.D.

Earlier this year , I wrote that 2022 seemed to be the year that ungrading really took hold in higher education, and that we can expect its prevalence and influence to increase through 2023. I've edited it slightly for reposting, and there are some updated thoughts at the end for you to check out. Why would an instructor use ungrading?

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The heart of the loop: Reattempts without penalty

Robert Talbert, Ph.D.

It leads to "grade inflation" It violates some kind of academic machismo code that views student assessment like competition in an arena. An advantage of this approach is that it introduces time for thought and practice students can't typically take an assessment and then turn around mere hours later and do a reassessment.