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What Schools Miss When They’re Missing Relationship Data

ED Surge

Earlier this month, a new study in Nature revealed a key predictor of economic mobility: connectedness. The analysis also yielded a new species of school-level data, charting the degree of economic connectedness within individual high schools and colleges across the country.

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8 Ways to Teach Financial Literacy

Cool Cat Teacher

Look at the FutureSmart Course Free from EVERFI Length of course: 7 modules taking 25 minutes each Grades: 6-8 Languages: English/Spanish Lesson Overview (PDF) Resource #3: SmartEconomics for Middle Schoolers SmartEconomics introduces middle schoolers to understand economics, market forces that impact consumer goods, and key economic concepts.

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The Role of Mathematics in Education

Ask a Tech Teacher

Finance and Economics: The Art of Numbers In the realms of finance and economics, mathematics is the brush with which professionals paint the picture of the market’s future.

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Here Comes Another Trend in K-12 Science Education: Data Science

Chillax Science

The new trend is data science for teaching and learning. According to the National Academies of Sciences , data science is teaching science with a data mining lens. In other words, creating opportunities in lessons to analyze large groups of data. What exactly is the new trend?

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Data Science is Needed in the Classroom

CSTEM

Though data science may seem like a popular catchphrase in tech, it’s much more than that. Data science is being used across many industries and is a skill that is rapidly expanding to every career field. What is Data Science. How is Data Science Being Used.

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The ROI of A Data Science Course

Career in STEM

The ROI of A Data Science Course: How It Pays Off in Your Career In today’s data-driven world, data science has emerged as a pivotal field with exponential growth. If you’re considering a career in data science, you may have heard of Great Learning’s Data Science Course.

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Should universities use differential treatment to admit students?

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However, Dr Emil Temnyalov , an economist at the University of Technology Sydney in Australia, highlights the effects of socio-economic influences on these scores. While these are the areas of economics commonly in the news, the field is so much broader than this. Stock markets, unemployment, inflation and recession?

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