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Brain Study Points to Potential Treatments for Math Anxiety
posted on November 03, 2011
Do numbers make you nervous? Math anxiety is a very real problem for many, but a recent study has discovered that some math-anxious students manage to...
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IQ Isn't Set In Stone, Suggests Study That Finds Big Jumps, Dips in Teens
posted on October 21, 2011
Thought by some to be an accurate measurement of intellectual ability, IQ, or the Intelligence Quotient claims to measure an individual's intellectu...
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What if the Secret to Success is Failure?
posted on September 15, 2011
What happens when a student who has always done well in school meets suddenly with failure or difficulty? If they are not used to encountering challen...
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Doodling May Draw Students into Science
posted on September 08, 2011
What if the key to engaging more students with science is as simple as handing them markers and letting them doodle? A recent study published in the j...
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Summer Slide: How a Childhood Rite is Widening the Achievement Gap
posted on August 30, 2011
How I Spent My Summer Vacation - it's a typical essay assignment for children as they return to school in the fall. The contents of the essay can vary...
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Harnessing the Power of Feedback Loops
posted on July 20, 2011
Data, feedback, strategy; sensors, radars, and LEDs. What do these have in common? In this fascinating article from Wired, Thomas Goetz explores how d...
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Teaching the iGeneration: It's About Verbs, Not Tools
posted on April 21, 2011
The use of technology in the classroom is a huge topic, and with the variety of tools and programs available, author Bill Ferriter points out that it'...
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Misplaced Priorities: Over Incarcerate, Under Educate
posted on April 15, 2011
The NAACP has released a report that examines the rising cost of prison systems, and the impact this is having on education. Misplaced Priorities: Ove...
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Changing Education Paradigms
posted on April 14, 2011
"How do we educate our children to take their place in the economies of the 21st century, given that we can't anticipate what the economy will look li...
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At-Risk Kids Treated as 'Gifted' Perform Better, Study Finds
posted on April 08, 2011
What happens when at-risk student populations are given curriculum and instruction methods designed for gifted students? According the Project Bright ...
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