However, online tutoring can be effective when students participate regularly. In this Northern California study, reading achievement increased substantially, in line with in-person tutoring, for the roughly 200 students who got at least 20 sessions across 10 weeks. The students who logged in regularly might have been more motivated students in the first place, the … Read more
Researchers from the University of Michigan’s Notion Archaeological Project have struck gold. The team of archeologists discovered a “hoard of gold coins” from the Persian Empire in western Turkey. The researchers announced the “very rare” find in a news release on Friday. The design of the coins – which features the figure of a kneeling archer – is … Read more
by Terry Heick Quality—you know what it is, yet you don’t know what it is. But that’s self-contradictory. But some things are better than others, that is, they have more quality. But when you try to say what the quality is, apart from the things that have it, it all goes poof! There’s nothing to … Read more
Espinoza said students who missed school were missing out on other benefits, too. “When a child is on campus, they’re learning to engage with peers, they’re learning to engage with adults,” she said. “The socialization part of school is very rewarding in a young person’s life.” To address parental misconceptions about attendance, Espinoza shared facts … Read more
U.S. personnel injured in rocket attack on Iraq air base – CBS News Watch CBS News Several U.S. servicemembers were injured in a suspected rocket attack on Al Asad Air Base in Iraq. No servicemembers were killed in the attack. Be the first to know Get browser notifications for breaking news, live events, and exclusive … Read more
Excerpted from Equity Now: Justice, Repair, and Belonging in Schools by Tyrone C. Howard. Copyright (c) 2024 by Corwin Press, Inc. All rights reserved. Hate speech is often deliberate and meant to be hurtful, while microaggressions are often more common, subtle everyday slights directed at someone’s identity. Microaggressions can be intentional or unintentional, and often … Read more
Metal detectors beeped across a quiet, five-acre plot of forest and field on England’s eastern Suffolk coast as dozens of American and British service members sifted clumpy, wet soil from a deep impact crater. The tiniest of remains of U.S. Air Force pilot Lt. John Fisher might be here. Exactly 80 years ago Sunday – … Read more
American-born pole vaulter Armand “Mondo” Duplantis broke a world record for a ninth time at the Paris Olympics on Monday and brought home a gold medal for Sweden. The Louisiana-born 24-year-old athlete cleared 6.25 meters Monday, beating the mark of 6.24 meters he set in the Xiamen Diamond League in China in April, launching higher … Read more
by Terrell Heick Will robots replace teachers? I was asked this in an interview a years ago for Futurism and tried to offer up some abstract nonsense whose lack of clarity represented my own thinking: “Will artificial intelligence replace teachers? Will the students themselves replace teachers through self-directed learning, social/digital communities, and adaptive technology?” These … Read more
Greenland has melted before, and as the climate warms, it will melt again — this time leading to what scientists warn could be 20 to 25 feet of sea-level rise. During one of the warm periods within the last 1.1 million years, the center, not just the edges, of Greenland’s massive ice sheet melted away, … Read more