EDUCATION
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How ‘Spotlight Reading’ Helps Students Learn to Trust Their Literary Instincts
- By Nebraskadigitalnews.com
- . September 5, 2024
Spotlight reading works best when done every week and for the entire school year. “The kids get into routines and thinking, seeing and responding,” Smith
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Kids Who Use ChatGPT as a Study Assistant Do Worse on Tests
- By Nebraskadigitalnews.com
- . September 2, 2024
ChatGPT’s errors also may have been a contributing factor. The chatbot only answered the math problems correctly half of the time. Its arithmetic computations were
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Is Environmental Sustainability the New Liberal Arts?
- By Nebraskadigitalnews.com
- . August 30, 2024
“The scale of the challenges we face demands that all people have baseline understanding” of climate, the plan says. “[H]igher education must advance a learning
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How to Get Kids Thinking Instead of Mimicking in Math Class
- By Nebraskadigitalnews.com
- . August 27, 2024
“It’s a great way to enculture [students] into a new way of being,” Liljedahl said. “They might perceive that mathematics is different. They might perceive
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Debunking Myths About Graphic Novels and Comics to Unlock Learning
- By Nebraskadigitalnews.com
- . August 24, 2024
POW! SMACK! BAM! The sounds of a classic comic book fight scene have not always been associated with academic opportunities, yet many teachers see students
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To Raise Empathetic Children, Parents Must Practice Empathy Themselves
- By Nebraskadigitalnews.com
- . August 21, 2024
How is empathy “passed down” in this way? When parents respond to children’s distress in a supportive, empathetic way, it gives children a model for
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10 Ways to Calm Your Kid’s Back-to-School Jitters
- By Nebraskadigitalnews.com
- . August 18, 2024
🗓 To ease a child’s anxiety about going back to school, help them understand what to expect. As Daniel Tiger sings, “When we do something
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5 Ways the Black Panthers Shaped U.S. Schools
- By Nebraskadigitalnews.com
- . August 15, 2024
The Oakland Community School is regarded as one of the nation’s first community schools – a model in which public schools partner with community organizations
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Nearly 6 out of 10 Middle and High School Grades Are Wrong, Study Finds
- By Nebraskadigitalnews.com
- . August 12, 2024
This analysis is evidence that widespread grade inflation, which has also been documented by the ACT, the National Center for Education Statistics and independent scholars,
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Former Teacher Tim Walz is Kamala Harris’ VP pick. Here’s What He’s Done for Education in Minnesota
- By Nebraskadigitalnews.com
- . August 9, 2024
Walz, whose wife, father, and siblings were all teachers, intoned: “Don’t ever underestimate teachers.” Harris spoke of Walz leading his football team from a winless