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Why Every Student Deserves a Robust Arts Education

ED Surge

Arts education belongs in every student’s curriculum — and not just because the arts can improve skills in other content areas. This award gave me the chance to reflect on the purpose of the arts in education and provided a platform for me to explain to those who will listen why the arts are a core subject based on their own merits.

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Two Cities Pay Teachers Based on Their Quality. Does It Work?

ED Surge

education at all,” says García, whose organization has been warning about such shortages for years. Just having a genuinely consequential system of teacher performance assessment is really unusual in American public education” Stanford's Thomas Dee Dallas and D.C. s lead are both political and logistical.

Logistics 262
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Can the Metaverse Improve Learning? New Research Finds Some Promise

ED Surge

And plenty of schools and colleges are wondering: Will this new realm work for education? Mayer ranks as the most productive educational psychologist in the world by the journal Contemporary Educational Psychology, and he has a highly cited theory of multimedia learning.

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Remembering Jonathan Haber, Who Taught So Many to Think Critically

ED Surge

Jonathan, who wrote columns for EdSurge among his many pursuits, was a wonderful thinker, in education and in life. The recent author of the book Critical Thinking , a topic about which he cared deeply, Haber had contributed in significant ways to a variety of important education projects. Jonathan was incredibly proud of his two sons.

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Knowledge vs. Experience: What I’ve Learned About the Art of Teaching

STEM Education Works

I’ve found that having this kind of academic background in a hard science certainly helps me a lot when it comes to my job as a Curriculum and Outreach Specialist here at STEM Education Works. But don’t think I have a chip on my shoulder, because during my time with STEM Education Works (over two and a half years now!),

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Does It Run in the IDE?

Computer Science Teacher

Asking students to write code in an IDE offers logistical issues for starters. I loved the 10 line code answer for a guestion that was looking for a one line return statement. I could have saved myself a lot of time if I could have verified it by running it. Some object to students using autocorrect, error checking, and help files.

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Align Your Edtech Investments With What Matters Most

ED Surge

After nearly three years of disruption to learning caused by the pandemic, government funding has enabled many schools to invest in new devices and upgrade their technology infrastructure to accelerate learning and improve the education experience for all students.

EdTech 238