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6 Tech Activities for Your Summer School Program

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Working in groups, students research opposite sides of an issue, then debate it in front of class. They tie arguments to class reading, general knowledge as well as evidence from research. public speaking. using research authentically. Give students time to research, but not too much time. critical thinking.

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Best Online Debate & Public Speaking Classes For Kids

The Maker Mom

One of the best ways children learn to develop ideas and communicate with others is through public speaking and debate. Online debate classes encourage students to think things through and present their concepts to others verbally, using research and logic. Dynamic lessons and games make learning and communicating fun.

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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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Why Legacy Admissions May Be on the Way Out

ED Surge

When he was working on his book on the topic more than a decade ago, he says he reached out to civil rights groups hoping they’d be interested in using his research to launch campaigns against legacy programs, but had few takers. But even that financial argument is not well-founded, argues Kahlenberg. And that's not true,” she says.

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

ED Surge

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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The Education Department Outlines What It Wants From AI

ED Surge

It represents one part of a greater attempt to encourage “responsible” use of this technology by the federal government , including a $140 million investment to create national academies that will focus on AI research, which is inching the country closer to a regulatory framework for AI. At the moment, more research is needed.

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Does Our Academic System Unnecessarily Pit People Against Each Other?

ED Surge

I came across this paper while researching our Bootstraps podcast series about educational equity. And as we’ll get to later in this episode, this research is personal for me, and I’m very excited to shine a light on this work. It seems like there's a lot of common sense to this argument that is very accessible to a non-philosopher.