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How Low-Carb Diets Fuel High-Achieving Students

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How Low-Carb Diets Fuel High-Achieving Students Have you ever considered that your diet could be the secret weapon in your quest for academic success? Low-carb diets are more than just a trend; they’re transforming high-achievers into unstoppable forces in classrooms and beyond.

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What New Research Says About Fostering a ‘Sense of Belonging’ in Classrooms

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When some students hit an obstacle in school or college, they can take it as a sign that this whole education thing just isn’t for them. That can be true with challenges like glitches in the federal financial aid forms or a student registration system, says Greg Walton, a psychology professor at Stanford University. What’s an example?

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Computer Science Course Offerings in High School Spur More Students to Coding Degrees

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In recent years high schools across the country have been adding computer science courses, and there is a movement to make them ubiquitous. It’s not surprising in some ways,” says the lead researcher on the study, Jing Liu. It’s like math anxiety — they think they can’t do it,” the professor says of some students.

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How Does Acceleration Research Help Schools and Kids Rebound?

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Roadmap p 18) This report also says that the pandemic negatively impacted math and widened achievement gaps. Acceleration research says it is a way to do that. This episode is a companion to podcast episode 768 with Douglas Fisher about schools that rebound. This episode focuses specifically on acceleration research.

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100th Day of School — It’s about Learning

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The 100th day of school is a special milestone celebrated in many educational institutions around the world. It is particularly popular in elementary schools, often filled with fun and educational activities centered around the number 100. History Research what happened the hundredth year of your home country’s existence.

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Will Teachers Listen to Feedback From AI? Researchers Are Betting on It

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Julie York, a computer science and media teacher at South Portland High School in Maine, was scouring the internet for discussion tools for her class when she found TeachFX. York was hooked, in part because she says her school administration simply doesn’t have the time to observe teachers while tending to several other pressing concerns. “I

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Students Are Busy but Rarely Thinking, Researcher Argues. Do His Teaching Strategies Work Better?

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That’s the argument of Peter Liljedahl, a professor of mathematics education at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, who has spent years researching what works in teaching. But he has decided not to try to convince schools and school systems to adopt his system. How did that go? Can we get more students thinking?

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