Tag: Education
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Malala: Education, not drones, is key to fighting terrorism
Nobel Peace Prize recipient Malala Yousafza has a message for President Obama: stop fighting terrorism with more violence, and invest those resources in education. Speaking to a ... -
Five Indisputable Reasons Why You Should Be Implementing Value-Added Assessment
Educational assessments traditionally examine a single set of knowledge, at a single point in time. However, modern educators know that knowledge is something that can be ... -
Why U.S. Education Must Evolve to Stay Ahead
**The Edvocate is pleased to publish guest posts as way to fuel important conversations surrounding P-20 education in America. The opinions contained within guest posts are ... -
The Real Purpose of Assessments in Education
Assessment is a key part of today’s educational system. Assessment serves as an individual evaluation system, and as a way to compare performance across a spectrum ... -
Mandatory recess in Florida’s public elementary schools?
A group of central Florida mothers have written a bill that asks lawmakers to consider making recess mandatory in the state’s public elementary schools. The bill ... -
The Evidence-Based Athletic Department
A director of athletics details how a shift from paper to digital forms has saved his staff time and helped them gather actionable data about ... -
2 Concepts that Illustrate How Fun Math Actually Is
President Obama’s Race to the Top initiative emphasizes STEM learning, particularly in mathematics, in order for more students to make it to high school graduation and ... -
Is education killing imagination?
By Judith A. Yates As a criminal justice instructor in a career college, I gave my students an assignment that relied on 75% imagination and 25% ... -
Male graduates earn more than female graduates: study
Alexandra Hansen, The Conversation Male university graduates earn more than their female counterparts and the pay gap will likely increase with the more time spent in ... -
How the justice system fails us after police shootings
Caren Morrison, Georgia State University Two weeks ago, the police officer who shot Laquan McDonald in Chicago was charged with first-degree murder. Since then, the police ...
