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

Cool Cat Teacher

Furthermore, research supports starting early. In addition, a recent August 2023 report from the Council for Economic Education brings more news. Recent research shows that this free course boosts students' financial knowledge by 20% compared to those who didn't take it. And that's true for students from all backgrounds.

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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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The heart of the loop: Reattempts without penalty

Robert Talbert, Ph.D.

But if you were reading a research article and the author used a sample size of n = 1, how would you react? It leads to "grade inflation" It violates some kind of academic machismo code that views student assessment like competition in an arena. One-and-done assessment is clearly a terrible way to measure student learning.