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Where Americans Are — and Aren’t — Politically Divided on Education

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Polikoff and his fellow researchers at the University of California, where he’s a professor of education, set out to find what Americans think about topics that have been roiled in controversy over the past several years. “A What’s the Point? But when it comes to the average American?

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

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Keara Phipps, an elementary school teacher from Atlanta, says that TeachFX showed her she “talked too much” in her classes. Students should be equal participants in their learning,” says Phipps. All teachers should have equal access to tools that can improve their teaching. This feature wasn’t possible to add six months ago.

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Young Kids in Low-Income Families Get Less Exposure to Math. Can the Right Apps Help?

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But there’s been less attention paid to what math skills students need early in life, to set them up for elementary school in the first place. Researchers sent text reminders to some parents to use the materials they received. Nevertheless, the kinds of solutions the researchers considered had another virtue: affordability.

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Will Banning TikTok Make Kids Safer Online? It’s More Complicated Than That

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While it’s true that young people are increasingly struggling with mental health issues at the same time social media usage is ballooning, today’s available research simply hasn’t found one of those to be the driving force behind the other — in sum, correlation does not equal causation. While the U.S.

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Anti-Racist Activities for Upper Elementary and Middle School Students

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I am planning to do anti-racist activities with my elementary students (5th and 6th graders) this coming fall. You’re deliberately teaching them that all the racial groups are equals. And we should value them all equally. To not talk about it is a disservice to all young people.

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100th Day of School — It’s about Learning

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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. jumping jacks, sit-ups, and deep knee bends) to learn the concept that 10 sets of 10 equal 100.

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It’s Time to Soften Schools, Not Harden Them

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Nineteen children and two teachers were killed in Uvalde, Texas, and 17 more wounded, in the sanctuary of an elementary school. Similarly, a review by research organization RAND found that the evidence of the effectiveness of school safety technology is “severely limited or nonexistent.” On May 24, the unfathomable happened.

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