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fromFast Company
34 minutes ago

Gen Alpha could bring handwriting back

Over half of U.S. states now require or encourage cursive handwriting instruction, reversing a decade-long decline as research shows handwriting activates broader brain regions than typing.
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fromTheregister
4 days ago

School district cites plate-reader data to deny enrollment

A Chicago school district uses license plate reader data to challenge student residency claims, denying enrollment based on vehicle sightings at out-of-district addresses.
Education
fromPsychology Today
1 week ago

Why Uneven Development Matters in Dyslexia

Dyslexia involves unexpected reading difficulty despite strong cognitive abilities; removing this concept from definitions risks harming students' education by obscuring their strengths.
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fromChalkbeat
2 weeks ago

NYC students to spend about 20 fewer days in school than national peers. Learning likely suffers.

New York City K-12 students with perfect attendance are on track this year to be in school for 1,102 hours. That's about 20 fewer days than the national average, per the study, of about 1,231 hours in school each year.
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fromPsychology Today
5 months ago

The Case for Gifted Education

Gifted education is a necessary form of specialized support that must remain and be expanded to ensure equity and prevent deepening inequality.
East Bay (California)
fromThe Oaklandside
5 months ago

How Oakland teachers are using - or avoiding - AI in the classroom

Generative AI is widely used by K-12 students, prompting teachers to adopt varied responses — integration, prohibition, or old-school assessments — amid district policy gaps.
Education
fromABC7 San Francisco
7 months ago

Petaluma school district considers universal phone ban, but students not convinced it will work

Petaluma City Schools may implement a ban on cellphone use during school hours across all grade levels.
fromMail Online
10 months ago

Posh accents make you sound clever, say kids - it's bad for Yorkshire

One crucial finding of our study indicates that children associate the middle-class SSBE accent with intelligence, while they perceive the Yorkshire accent as lacking cleverness.
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