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How Low-Carb Diets Fuel High-Achieving Students

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How Low-Carb Diets Fuel High-Achieving Students Have you ever considered that your diet could be the secret weapon in your quest for academic success? Low-carb diets are more than just a trend; they’re transforming high-achievers into unstoppable forces in classrooms and beyond.

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Should High School Students Do Academic Research?

ED Surge

A growing number of high school students are looking for opportunities to do academic research, hoping to add ‘published author’ to their list of achievements when they apply to colleges. But experts say that the trend of high school research, while well-intentioned, has plenty of pitfalls. They may be playing sports.

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

ED Surge

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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Establishing a Research-Based Framework for Edtech Product Quality

ED Surge

Recently, EdSurge talked with ISTE researchers who managed Teacher Ready, a research-driven project that (1) provides edtech decision-makers with tools to validly and reliably evaluate edtech, and (2) helped expand the ISTE Seal of Alignment certification by integrating user experience and product usability components.

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How Does Acceleration Research Help Schools and Kids Rebound?

Cool Cat Teacher

Roadmap p 18) This report also says that the pandemic negatively impacted math and widened achievement gaps. Acceleration research says it is a way to do that. This episode focuses specifically on acceleration research. Episode 770 - The 10 Minute Teacher Podcast How Does Acceleration Research Help Schools and Kids Rebound?

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Can Third Graders Learn Data Science? These Researchers Say Yes

ED Surge

Bowen, a principal research associate at the Urban Institute, wanted to fill the dearth of accessible teaching resources with sessions on coding, cartography, and—of course—Bowen’s pet-prolific workshop on data collection and visualization. “I’m Having role models makes it so much more accessible and easier to believe it’s achievable.”.

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How Research-Based Tools Provide Impactful Learning Outcomes

ED Surge

While the edtech market continues to grow with innovative ways to engage students, not many companies provide products rooted in three decades of cognitive research that continue to provide solid returns on investment. So research, data and learning science have always been at the core of what we do. I am very proud of that fact.

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