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If our kids learned as much in school as Canadian kids do, we'd increase our gross domestic product by about $50 trillion over the next 80 years, estimates Eric Hanushek of the Hoover Institution.
The GDP gain would be doubled if our kids learned as much as Finnish kids…
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Teaching our kids to code will make them uniquely prepared to fully contribute to the world.…
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Is the era of the ivy-walled college coming to an end? How much will technology reshape what we think of as the college experience? See what the experts had to say.
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By Chester E. Finn, Jr. and Amber M. Winkler/ August 2, 2012
In November 2010, Education Secretary Arne Duncan delivered a widely noted address about the tough economic times facing American K-12 education. “I am here,” he said, “to talk today about what has been called the New Normal. For the next several years,…
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Have you ever read a story and wondered if it was accurate? When doing research, do you not only read your primary sources but also dig down a little deeper and read the sources they used? Do you take it a step further and look…
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Is It Important for Nonnative Speakers to Lose their Accents?
From the Marshall Memo #444
In this article in Foreign Language Annals, University of Utah professors Rachel Hayes-Harb and Johanna Watzinger-Tharp sum up their study of whether having a “foreign accent” affects being understood by a native speaker. “Although nonnative speakers often strive to ‘overcome’ their accents,” say the authors,…
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Teachers lag behind other careers in harnessing the power of social media, and a major reason is fear.
"It's dangerous to…
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