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Research: The Influence of Socioeconomic Status on Learning

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Research: The Influence of Socioeconomic Status on Learning contributed by Michael Mirra Abstract Diversity has been at the forefront of educational discussions over the last few years. Background research on children’s learning showed that preschoolers have two qualifiers when choosing an informer.

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What Is Mistake Literacy? The Research Of Learning Through Failure

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The Research Of Learning Through Failure appeared first on TeachThought. Though it is perhaps not intuitive, Richland et al. 2009) found that error generation is positively correlated to enhanced memory. The post What Is Mistake Literacy?

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A Classroom Research Project with Lasting Meaning

Teaching Anthropology

ELIZABETH KEATING, Professor of Anthropology & Graduate Faculty, Human Dimensions of Organizations, The University of Texas at Austin Teaching through research is recognized as one of the strengths of anthropology. The students used questions I developed and used in my research project.

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Researchers Have Identified the Starkest Cases of School District Segregation

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That’s one of the main findings of a new report from researchers from the think tank New America. Across roughly 60 pages, researchers analyzed 24,658 pairs of districts that share a border. Researchers point out that the inequities they uncover in the report are not unavoidable. It’s time to draw the line.”

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Research-Influenced Learning Spaces

A Principal's Reflections

Research should be used to inform as well as influence the actions we take to implement sustainable change at scale. Below is an adapted section of Chapter 4 from our book that looks as research that can influence learning space design in classrooms and schools. Additionally, the study indicated that whole-school factors (e.g.,

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Celebrity Status Almost Ruined Ancient DNA Research

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But because his 1984 paper appeared in a journal published in East Germany, the research did not reach global scientists or publics. Other teams rushed to conduct similar research. In a 1990 Nature study , researchers claimed to have extracted DNA from a nearly 20-million-year-old fossil of a magnolia leaf.

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What New Research Says About Fostering a ‘Sense of Belonging’ in Classrooms

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Research shows that everybody finds things like that annoying, but if you're a first-generation college student, those start to trigger worries about belonging, because there's a belonging uncertainty there,” he says. Walton has spent decades researching how to foster a stronger sense of belonging in education settings.

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