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

Cool Cat Teacher

Why Teach Financial Literacy? Whether you teach economics, business, social studies, or career readiness, these financial literacy lessons have a place. One of the objectives of FutureSmart is to teach students to save money. One of the objectives of FutureSmart is to teach students to save money.

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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. This locked step is set by the ‘average’ pupil–an algebraic myth born of inanimate figures and an addled pedagogy. Grouping students by age or manufacturer date is a contrived sorting mechanism.

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A media guide to ungrading

Robert Talbert, Ph.D.

I have only used ungrading once, and I did it because I wanted my students (in an upper-level abstract algebra course primarily taken by pre-service math teachers) to stop focusing so much on points and grades and focus instead on the (difficult!) Why would an instructor use ungrading? I will speak for myself here.