The FAFSA form is now open to students hoping to get help paying for college in the 2025-26 academic year. Students can expect a much smoother process compared to the last cycle.

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22.11.2024

Taking Exams in Blue Books? They're Back to Help Curb AI Use and Rampant Cheating | KQED

As so much test-taking has migrated online, some professors are rediscovering blue book exams as a way to truly test a student's knowledge.

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21.11.2024

When Students Repair School Chromebooks, Meaningful Skills Are Developed | KQED

Ossining’s Genius Bar is revolutionizing tech education by empowering students to lead, learn, and innovate in the digital age.

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19.11.2024

Three Barriers to Learning Algebra in High-Poverty Middle Schools | KQED

Surveys find access to algebra is only one problem in schools where teaching quality is ‘less optimal’.

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15.11.2024

AI is Moving Fast. Here Are Some Helpful Ways to Support Teachers | KQED

Creating guidelines, room for experimentation and low stakes meetings can help teachers keep up with fast-moving artificial intelligence tools.

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13.11.2024

It’s Not Too Late to Read That Entire Book With Your Students | KQED

Full-length books offer students invaluable benefits that are often lost when reading is reduced to test-prep passages and excerpts.

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12.11.2024

Kids Worldwide Face Huge Educational Challenges. Is Better Leadership a Solution? | KQED

Amid dismal data, educators from around the world gather in Brazil and say they can rise to the challenges.

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05.11.2024

What the Research Says About Mixed-Ability Algebra Class | KQED

An experiment put remedial math students into ninth grade algebra and many succeeded.

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30.10.2024

So Stressed You Don’t Know What to do Next? Try Talking to Your 'Parts' | KQED

'Parts work' or Internal Family Systems is a type of talk therapy that’s surged in popularity. Here’s how it works and how it can help with stress.

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29.10.2024

How is Dual Enrollment Affecting Students' Chances at Earning College Degrees? | KQED

High school students who take college courses are gaining some benefits, but there are some drawbacks, according to a new national analysis of 400,000 students.

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25.10.2024

Should Parents Not Say 'I'm So Proud of You' or 'Good Job'? | KQED

The rise of gentle parenting has drawn attention to helpful ways to praise children.

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22.10.2024

Stress Isn't All Bad. Here's When it Can Help | KQED

You can't eliminate stress, but you can manage it better and sometimes even make it a force for good. That means reframing how you think about it.

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18.10.2024

The Benefits of Raising Hopeful Kids in Cynical Times | KQED

Kids are well primed to absorb their parents' emotions, which is why having adults practice hopefulness can help kids realize their best selves and develop an accurate worldview.

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17.10.2024

Students Won’t Always Remember What They’ve Learned. Here's How to Help. | KQED

Kids will forget things, but understanding how they best learn new information can help them retain it and build new knowledge.

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17.10.2024

What One State Learned After a Decade of Free Community College | KQED

36 states have since followed Tennessee’s lead and offer some version of free tuition to residents

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10.10.2024

6 Ways to Turn Climate Change Anxiety Into Action | KQED

More than half of young adults feel anxious, angry and powerless over climate change, a recent survey found. But there are ways to help turn that distress around. Here's how to give them a try.

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09.10.2024

Why Are Students Paying Fees to Access Homework Assignments? | KQED

Online homework access fees are growing, and no, buying a used book doesn’t help.

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08.10.2024

How the First Letter of Your Last Name Can Affect Your Grades in College | KQED

A study reveals bias in grades depending on where your last name falls on the alphabet.

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06.10.2024

How To Raise a Well-Adjusted Adult | KQED

Making sure a child feels heard can help with their path to a well-adjusted adulthood; shaming and invalidation does not.

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03.10.2024

What 'Hurried Child Syndrome' Is and Isn't | KQED

Telling a child to "hurry up" is not the same as having a "hurried child." Cara Goodwin debunks some misunderstandings and shares better ways to communicate with a child.

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02.10.2024

How Climate Education Based on Action Can Help Youth Be Part of the Progress | KQED

Recognizing that students need to know more about climate change than just the science, dozens of federal agencies released a major new guide on ‘climate literacy,’ and one state, Colorado, inaugurated a ‘seal of climate literacy’ for high school diplomas.

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01.10.2024

The Habits of 7 Highly Effective Schools | KQED

Nonprofit counts more than 1,300 U.S. schools where students beat the odds.

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27.09.2024

Tried and True — and Quick — Methods for Formative Assessment | KQED

Rather than think of formative assessment as a drawn-out process, it helps to focus on using tools that will tell us what we need to know quickly.

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26.09.2024

Do Cellphone Bans in Middle School Work? It’s Complicated. | KQED

The past year has seen growing momentum for district and statewide bans on cellphones in schools. But not everyone is enthusiastic about such policies.

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25.09.2024

13 Poems By Living Poets to Teach in English Class Right Now | KQED

Hanif Abduraqqib. Sarah Kay. Elizabeth Acevedo. Clint Smith. Do any of these names sound familiar? How about Amanda Gorman? All of these writers are part of America’s thriving contemporary poetry scene. But you won’t find them in many text books, because high school poetry units tend to focus on dead poets, like Robert Frost, Walt Whitman and Edgar Allen Poe. North Carolina teacher Melissa Alter Smith is working to change that. For the last seven years, she’s been diversifying the canon in her c

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25.09.2024

Why Poetry Is Making a Comeback in Schools | KQED

Teaching living poets not only makes poetry more fun; it also makes it more accessible and relevant to students and empowers them as readers and writers.

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24.09.2024

A Decade of Data in Tennessee Shows an Unexpected Result When Colleges Drop Remedial Courses | KQED

After the elimination of remedial classes, students passed more college courses. But the positive effect quickly faded, and graduation rates didn't increase.

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20.09.2024

Does Hearing 'Thank You' Make a Difference for Parent Well-being? | KQED

A new study finds that it really does matter whether you hear “thank you” as a parent.

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19.09.2024

Youth Mental Health Is Declining. School-based Supports Can Help | KQED

In a recent report, pre-teen boys showed the greatest struggle with conduct problems while teen girls had the highest levels of depression and anxiety symptoms.

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18.09.2024

Answering the Age-Old Math Question, 'When Will I Use This in Real Life?' | KQED

When students ask "when will I use this?" in math class, they're really asking about purpose.

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17.09.2024

An AI Tutor Helped Harvard Students Learn More Physics in Less Time | KQED

In a small experiment, students learned more than twice as much in less time when they used an AI tutor in their dorm instead of attending physics class.

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12.09.2024

Tips for Reclaiming Your Time as a First-Year Teacher | KQED

AI tools and habit stacking can offer some relief to the overwhelm of the first year of teaching.

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11.09.2024

Humanizing History by Teaching with Primary Sources | KQED

At a school district in Virginia, fourth graders learn about segregation and the Civil Rights Movement by studying historical photos and diary entries.

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Taking Exams in Blue Books? They're Back to Help Curb AI Use and Rampant Cheating | KQED

When Students Repair School Chromebooks, Meaningful Skills Are Developed | KQED

Three Barriers to Learning Algebra in High-Poverty Middle Schools | KQED

AI is Moving Fast. Here Are Some Helpful Ways to Support Teachers | KQED

It’s Not Too Late to Read That Entire Book With Your Students | KQED

Kids Worldwide Face Huge Educational Challenges. Is Better Leadership a Solution? | KQED

What the Research Says About Mixed-Ability Algebra Class | KQED

So Stressed You Don’t Know What to do Next? Try Talking to Your 'Parts' | KQED

How is Dual Enrollment Affecting Students' Chances at Earning College Degrees? | KQED

Should Parents Not Say 'I'm So Proud of You' or 'Good Job'? | KQED

Stress Isn't All Bad. Here's When it Can Help | KQED

The Benefits of Raising Hopeful Kids in Cynical Times | KQED

Students Won’t Always Remember What They’ve Learned. Here's How to Help. | KQED

What One State Learned After a Decade of Free Community College | KQED

6 Ways to Turn Climate Change Anxiety Into Action | KQED

Why Are Students Paying Fees to Access Homework Assignments? | KQED

How the First Letter of Your Last Name Can Affect Your Grades in College | KQED

How To Raise a Well-Adjusted Adult | KQED

What 'Hurried Child Syndrome' Is and Isn't | KQED

How Climate Education Based on Action Can Help Youth Be Part of the Progress | KQED

The Habits of 7 Highly Effective Schools | KQED

Tried and True — and Quick — Methods for Formative Assessment | KQED

Do Cellphone Bans in Middle School Work? It’s Complicated. | KQED

13 Poems By Living Poets to Teach in English Class Right Now | KQED

Why Poetry Is Making a Comeback in Schools | KQED

A Decade of Data in Tennessee Shows an Unexpected Result When Colleges Drop Remedial Courses | KQED

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Youth Mental Health Is Declining. School-based Supports Can Help | KQED

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An AI Tutor Helped Harvard Students Learn More Physics in Less Time | KQED

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