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Homeless Students Are Missing School. Does Having a Separate School for Them Help or Hurt?

ED Surge

Even though federal law requires states to provide public education to homeless students, delivering on this has proven troublesome. Monarch School, a public-private K-12 school, is an arrangement between the San Diego County Office of Education and a local nonprofit. A 2020 report for the U.S. But the objection is more sweeping.

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If We’re Serious About Student Well-Being, We Must Change the Systems Students Learn In

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But while working with schools and colleges across the globe as we conducted research for our book , we realized that most interventions don’t address systemic issues causing mental health problems in the first place. Indeed, a meta-analysis of research on this issue found a correlation between homework and achievement.

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What it Takes to Lead a School Where Students Love Themselves and Succeed Academically

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Research suggests that when exposed to a learning environment that prioritizes the well-being of the whole child, not just their academic performance, students become more confident, optimistic and perceptive. This is a dilemma. I haven’t seen one of them incorporate self-love as a prioritized outcome.

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Should universities use differential treatment to admit students?

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Differential treatment is an example of how economic theories can shape public policies and individual’s opportunities. Is it fair to judge a student from a low-achieving school against a privately-tutored student? As you can imagine, there are many arguments both for and against these ideas.

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Panic Over SEL Is Unfounded. Here’s Why.

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SEL and “critical race theory”—a little-understood academic concept that conservatives have capitalized on to stoke fear among parents—have been willfully conflated in recent public discourse by disingenuous, politically motivated agitators , causing hysteria. Thirty years of research in SEL confirm these fundamentals.

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Is a College Degree the Worst Investment You Can Make — or the Best?

ED Surge

And the argument is that if a university degree is a good investment, it ought to be substantially more valuable than the opportunity cost. My argument is that the risk is too high, and the returns too low. There are two key weaknesses to our argument. In most cases, a university degree takes three to four years of study.

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Top 7 AI Academic Writing Tools for Researchers

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While researchers have used these tools for academic writing, they often lack the subject-specific expertise needed for high-quality research papers. We’ve evaluated a wide range of options and present the top 7 AI research paper writing tools that will elevate your academic writing experience.