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

ED Surge

Research shows that excessive homework leads to increased stress, physical health problems and a lack of balance in students' lives. Indeed, a meta-analysis of research on this issue found a correlation between homework and achievement. Does homework cause achievement or do high achievers do more homework?

Learning 291
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Grades 7-10: Register by Mar. 5 for MIT SPARK (Mar. 16-17)

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Beyond Numbers: The Adventure After Calculus Intro to Japanese Soroban Geometry and Beauty of Soap Bubbles Mathematical Matchmaking High Speed Mathematics Cosmology: The Universe at Large Seeing is Believing? 3,2,1 Beyblade Physics! Digging Deeper: 4.65 Billion Years in 150 Minutes What’s in a Nuclear Reactor?

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Dear Educators, a Balm for Deep Cuts: Navigating Racial Microaggressions at School

ED Surge

This meant I was consistently rewarded at school for putting my head down and striving to be a “good student” and “high achiever,” but never for challenging authority or speaking up when something was wrong. I broke that mold on the day that a substitute lecturer addressed my Ph.D. Critical race and education scholars like Daniel G.

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9 Good Collections of Videos for Education

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Most are about five minutes (some longer, some shorter) and cover topics like chemistry, physics, calculus, geometry, biology, Algebra, trigonometry, grammar, ACT prep, and SAT prep. The website showcases work at film festivals and on over 100 public broadcast and cable channels.

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How Did We Get Here? The Tangled History of the Second Law of Thermodynamics

Stephen Wolfram

But by the end of the 1800s, with the existence of molecules increasingly firmly established, the Second Law began to often be treated as an almost-mathematically-proven necessary law of physics. But, first and foremost, the story of the Second Law is the story of a great intellectual achievement of the mid-19th century.

Energy 88
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Remembering the Improbable Life of Ed Fredkin (1934–2023) and His World of Ideas and Stories

Stephen Wolfram

Indeed, so confident was he of his programming prowess that he became convinced that he should in effect be able to write a program for the universe—and make all of physics into a programming problem. It didn’t help that his knowledge of physics was at best spotty (and, for example, I don’t think he ever really learned calculus).

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A crisis of clarity: can defining biodiversity help us protect the natural world?

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There are some great public philosophy resources on YouTube such as Philosophy Tube , Jeff Kaplan and Gregory Sadler. • WHAT ARE YOUR PROUDEST CAREER ACHIEVEMENTS SO FAR? As the biodiversity crisis deteriorates over the coming decades, this will become an increasingly important challenge for Charles’ successors to overcome.

Biology 52