School districts across the U.S. are increasingly using student test scores to rate the effectiveness of teachers, but a new Portland State University study found that the scores have less to do with individual teachers and ...
Education
Nov 12, 2020
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A sizable proportion of junior high school students whose first language is not English are falling behind in oral language and literacy skills, according to a recent U of A linguistics study.
Education
Aug 31, 2020
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Some people stereotype Asian students as the "model minority" in math achievement: they generalize attributes of a so-called "minority" (racialized) community in a way that just perpetuates racism disguised as a compliment.
Education
Jul 28, 2020
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Learners of foreign languages can hear the errors in pronunciation that fellow learners tend to make, but continue to fall foul of them themselves despite years of practice. A new study of Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet ...
Education
Feb 10, 2020
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Idiomatic expressions like "kick the bucket" or "send someone packing" constitute a special element of a language, and one that is difficult to learn. This is because the meanings of these idioms cannot be derived directly ...
Education
Jan 27, 2020
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A quickly growing student population of dual-language learners tends to have much lower high school graduation rates as well as reduced outcomes on measures of reading comprehension and vocabulary, and an interdisciplinary ...
Education
Sep 21, 2018
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If you go by the ads for some language learning apps, you can "have a conversation in a new language in three weeks."
Social Sciences
Apr 4, 2018
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Web-based learning tools can help deepen science knowledge among all middle school students, and ease the science literacy gap for underachieving students, according to a three-year study published today in the International ...
Social Sciences
Feb 12, 2018
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Not all dual-language learners are at risk academically, but as a group, these students are often labeled as such, despite differences in their English skills.
Social Sciences
Nov 8, 2017
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Online learning is expanding in Canada at a rate of about 8.75 per cent every year. This shift to online environments has redefined the format of education. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs), for example, have become wildly ...
Social Sciences
Sep 27, 2017
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