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

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The emphasis of our work is to provide a safe and socially nurturing place for unhoused students to achieve academic success,” says Afira DeVries, CEO of Monarch School. But critics allege that this argument is self-serving, and the 2020 Senate report listed Monarch School as having a higher than average chronic absentee rate , at 58.8

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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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As AI Chatbots Rise, More Educators Look to Oral Exams — With High-Tech Twist

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Fighting AI With AI Two undergraduate students who are researchers at Stanford University’s Piech Lab , which focuses on “using computational techniques to transform fundamental areas of society,” believe one way to bring back oral exams may be to harness artificial intelligence.

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Demystifying Social-Emotional Learning and the Controversy Surrounding It

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Such arguments obscure many of the real, pressing problems in education right now—a mental health crisis, workforce shortages in sectors across the field, nearly two years of lost or lackluster learning experiences. And more than that, vilifying SEL will likely only move education in the wrong direction, educators and researchers say.

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How to Compare and Contrast Authentically

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Look at what Harvey Silver says in his book, Compare and Contrast : By compiling the available research on effective instruction, Marzano, Pickering, and Pollock found that strategies that engage students in comparative thinking had the greatest effect on student achievement, leading to an average percentile gain of 45 points.

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How Minecraft Teaches Reading, Writing and Problem Solving

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It’s fascinating that today’s game playing youth want a set of rules they must beat, parameters they must meet, levels (read: standards) they must achieve, and a Big Goal (think: graduation) they can only reach after a lot of hard work, intense thinking, and mountains of problems. Which they love. Do you see what I’m doing?