Educated Reporter

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At High Tech High School in San Diego, there are no bells that signal the start of class periods. There are no seven-period days, no mock standardized assessmen...
For years, common experience and studies have prescribed that humans learn best in their earliest years of life – when the brain is developing at its fastest....
Since 2003, more information is produced every two days than the total sum of information produced between that year and the dawn of time, the CEO of Google sai...
Tying teacher pay to student test scores. Creating public schools of choice with private operators. Setting common standards for all students. Those issues prob...
It’s the story told over and over: A child from a poor neighborhood attends a failing school but somehow beats the odds and rises to success....
Boaler explained that new research into brain plasticity says that mistakes actually grow the brain. Boaler cited research suggesting that every time a student ...
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One question that often comes up during state legislative sessions is whether it’s a waste of money to increase educational spending in large urban areas with...
The transformative potential in growth mindsets and social-emotional skills such as grit may be more applicable to students whose basic needs are already met....
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