Tag: Education
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The Three Reasons You Should Care About Teacher Turnover
Teacher turnover – the continuous cycling of new teachers through a district, with very few or even none staying beyond a year or few – is ... -
Help Your Students Overcome with Assistive Technology
If your classroom has students with special needs, modern technology can be a massive blessing. Digital devices and screen capability have helped countless students overcome communication ... -
5 Ways Gifted Students Learn Differently
What distinguishes gifted children from other children? This question has been under debate for some time. However, as educators, understanding how gifted students learn in comparison ... -
Women preferred for STEM professorships – as long as they’re equal to or better than male candidates
Stephen J Ceci, Cornell University and Wendy M Williams, Cornell University Since the 1980s, there has been robust real-world evidence of a preference for hiring women ... -
College Football Obsession: Sending the Wrong Academic Message?
This past weekend, it seemed that every social media newsfeed was full of people cheering on their alma maters or sending shout outs to their favorite ... -
Stop Racism in the Classroom with These 2 Must-Have Tools
Despite legislative changes that have made schools accessible to everyone, the mindsets of individuals who attend or work in schools have been slower to adapt and ... -
Empowering students and lessons in giving constructive feedback
A guest post by Brooke Chaplan **The Edvocate is pleased to publish guest posts as way to fuel important conversations surrounding P-20 education in America. The opinions ... -
How to Teach a Room of Digital Natives
Children in today’s classrooms will most likely be digital natives, people who were born in the digital era and have used technology all their lives. These ... -
Is Sesame Street more important than preschool?
According to a new study produced by Melissa Kearney of the University of Maryland and Phillip Levine of Wellesley College, Sesame Street teaches children just as well as ... -
Using the free classes on iTunes U
**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 ...
