Video games could dramatically streamline educational research
"Seeking educational curriculum researchers. Humans need not apply."
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Sep 18, 2014
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History books spark latest Texas classroom battle
As Texas mulls new history textbooks for its 5-plus million public school students, some academics are decrying lessons they say exaggerate the influence of Christian values on America's Founding Fathers.
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Sep 16, 2014
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Social class makes a difference in how children tackle classroom problems
An Indiana University study has found that social class can account for differences in how parents coach their children to manage classroom challenges. Such differences can affect a child's education by reproducing inequalities ...
Social Sciences
Aug 27, 2014
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'Vital signs' of teaching captured by quick, reliable in-class evaluation
A 20-minute classroom assessment that is less subjective than traditional in-class evaluations by principals can reliably measure classroom instruction and predict student standardized test scores, a team of researchers researchers ...
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Jun 17, 2014
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State VAMS don't reflect content, quality of teachers' instruction
New research published online today in Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis (EEPA), a peer-reviewed journal of the American Educational Research Association, finds weak to nonexistent relationships between state-administered ...
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May 13, 2014
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Research suggests scale of disruptive behaviour in schools is underestimated
(Phys.org) —The true extent of poor pupil behaviour in schools is seriously underestimated, according to an academic from the University of East Anglia.
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Apr 15, 2014
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Study: Classroom focus on social and emotional skills can lead to academic gains
Classroom programs designed to improve elementary school students' social and emotional skills can also increase reading and math achievement, even if academic improvement is not a direct goal of the skills building, according ...
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Mar 6, 2014
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Researchers find that kindergarten is the new first grade
(Phys.org) —Kindergarten classrooms nationwide have changed dramatically since the late 1990s and nearly all of these changes are in the direction of a heightened focus on academics, particularly literacy, according to ...
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Jan 30, 2014
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Study: Students text, a lot, during class
The typical college student plays with his or her digital device an average of 11 times a day while in class, according to a new study by a University of Nebraska-Lincoln associate professor.
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Oct 23, 2013
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Jailed men express need for financial education
Is anyone surprised that brushes with the law are often related to finances? As one jailed man interviewed in a new University of Illinois study put it, "Most of us are in here because of money."
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Aug 29, 2013
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