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

Cool Cat Teacher

Furthermore, research supports starting early. Recent research shows that this free course boosts students' financial knowledge by 20% compared to those who didn't take it. This course is a great fit for economics, financial algebra, family and consumer science, business, and AVID courses. Their task?

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Why do we group students by manufacture date?

User Generated Education

Academic standards used by almost all schools are based on the false and incorrect belief of the average student. Todd Rose quoting Mike Miller’s research on brains found that “not a single one was even remotely close to the average.

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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.