The spillover effect: Good teaching doesn't stop at the classroom door
Effective teachers don't just impact their own students' achievement, they can significantly improve the performance of their fellow teachers' students.
Effective teachers don't just impact their own students' achievement, they can significantly improve the performance of their fellow teachers' students.
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Nov 26, 2015
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Bilingual preschool children can use digital tablets as a special resource. They can listen to books in their language, use pedagogical applications, and communicate with children in other preschools using for example Skype—which ...
Social Sciences
Nov 10, 2015
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Black students in schools with more black teachers have more positive attitudes and higher perceptions of fairness in school discipline, according to a new study that includes a University of Kansas researcher.
Social Sciences
Sep 2, 2015
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Nationwide, 34 percent of girls get pregnant at least once before age 20, according to a study for the National Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy. In Georgia, 86 out of every 1,000 African-American girls age 15-19 and 58 ...
Social Sciences
Nov 6, 2013
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Help your teenager stay engaged in school and he or she will be less likely to drop out. That's the conclusion of a new longitudinal study that found that teens who were less engaged in school tended to engage in more delinquency ...
Social Sciences
Jul 30, 2013
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Officials who close neighborhood schools in poor, urban areas often ignore parents' input, which only reinforces the "institutionalized racism that plagues U.S. schools," a Michigan State University scholar argues.
Social Sciences
May 30, 2013
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Vocabulary instruction in the early years is not challenging enough to prepare students for long-term reading comprehension, argues a study led by a Michigan State University education researcher.
Social Sciences
Jan 24, 2013
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Remember that teacher you grumbled about back in your school days, the really tough one who made you work so hard, insisted you could do better, and made you sweat for your A's? The one you didn't appreciate until after you ...
Social Sciences
May 4, 2012
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Youths from African American, Native American, and Latino backgrounds are underrepresented in the fields of science, technology, engineering, and math (known as STEM subjects). Although having a mentor of the same ethnicity ...
Social Sciences
Apr 17, 2012
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Do some high school teachers think math is harder for girls than boys? The authors of a new study say yes.
Social Sciences
Mar 22, 2012
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