Tag: K-12
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It’s Plainer to an Explainer
By Jessica Sinn, Life & Letters Magazine Asking children to come up with explanations — even to themselves — enhances their cause-and-effect learning abilities, according to new research by Cristine Legare, associate professor of psychology. The study, published in the Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, shows that young children who come up with explanations while learning are able to…
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Making the Grade: Strategies for Improving education systems in America
By Jessica Sinn, Life & Letters Magazine Few dispute the value of education, but discussions about how our nation should improve it are becoming more intense and polarized. Of all the competing arguments—more technology, smaller classrooms, improved teacher training, universal pre-kindergarten—most people would agree that America’s education system needs to improve, and soon. According to recent…
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Green is the New Burnt Orange at UT Elementary
School gardening program preps Little Longhorns and Their Families for Healthy Living By Jessica Sinn • August 1, 2018 Just around the corner from the University Elementary School cafeteria, a class of second-graders is sitting on tree stump chairs and watching their teacher point to sketches of plants on a handheld white board. “Alright! Now I want you all to…
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