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Homework: Good or Bad? Here Is What Research Says

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

Some of these reasons according to Blazer include: - Review and reinforce materials learned in class - Check students understanding and assess their skills and knowledge - Enhance students study skills - Provide students with learning opportunities where they can use their newly acquired skills to explore new insights. & van Voorhis, F.

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PROOF POINTS: The lesson the arts teach

The Hechinger Report

Arts classes were further squeezed out after a 2001 federal law required schools to test children annually. Researchers randomly assigned 21 elementary and middle schools to receive arts education first and watched what happened to 8,000 of their students in grades three through eight. In the schools without art, 14.5 Dose of Reality.

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PROOF POINTS: Why reading comprehension is deteriorating

The Hechinger Report

Since then, scholars have been trying to figure out why their scores dropped so much between 2017 and 2019 on a highly regarded national test known as the National Assessment of Educational Progress or NAEP. In this survey of elementary school children, parents had even more negative attitudes toward reading than their children.

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Conflict Resolution Techniques You Can Use in Your Classroom

Waterford

When something comes up, educators should take time to SOAR: Stop, Observe, Assess, and React.[6] A Conflict Resolution Protocol for Elementary Classrooms.” March 2001. 6] Then you can acknowledge the emotions in the room and use the situation as a learning opportunity. Sources: Responsive Classroom. “A Teaching Commons at York.

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OPINION: Resuming universal standardized testing in America’s public schools would be ‘foolhardy’

The Hechinger Report

s middling performance on international assessments to claim a “ rising tide of mediocrity ” in American education. Writing in September , though, she announced that states could not count on waivers for the 2020-21 school year, and should plan to assess their students with the customary tests.

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Inside the new middle school math crisis

The Hechinger Report

Test data paints a dire picture: Educational assessment nonprofit NWEA found that seventh and eighth graders’ scores on its math assessments fell in 2022, the only group of kids for whom that was true. Math, meanwhile, gets more complicated in middle school, with the introduction of concepts like equations and linear functions.

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PROOF POINTS: Early data on ‘high-dosage’ tutoring shows schools are sometimes finding it tough to deliver even low doses

The Hechinger Report

In Tennessee, 50,000 or roughly 5 percent of the state’s elementary and middle school students were assigned high-dosage tutoring during the 2021-22 school year. Tutoring was a big component of the 2001 No Child Left Behind law that aimed to lift the achievement of low-income children.

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