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  2. Pygmalion effect - Wikipedia

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    The cause of the effect may be because teachers' expectations of students are accurate, and not because they are self-fulfilling. [4] Rosenthal had originally claimed the treatment group's IQ gain over time was "24.8 IQ points in excess of the gain shown by the controls," and that these gains were persistent and widespread, but several studies ...

  3. Standards-based education reform in the United States

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    Subgroups are carefully measured to identify and reduce systemic racism, bias, and the tyranny of low expectations. Professional teachers are empowered to make the decisions essential for effective learning, rather than having a teaching style prescribed under traditional education models. Social promotion is discouraged. Students advance or ...

  4. Pygmalion in the Classroom - Wikipedia

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    The idea conveyed in the book is that if teachers' expectations about student ability are manipulated early, those expectations will carry over to affect teacher behavior, which in turn will influence how the students will perform on an IQ test. Inducing high expectations in teachers will lead to high levels of IQ test performance.

  5. Academic standards - Wikipedia

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    Students often use course evaluations to criticize any instructor who they feel has been making the course too difficult, even if an objective evaluation would show that the course has been too easy. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] [ 5 ] It is very difficult to find a direct correlation between the quality of the course and the outcome of the course evaluations.

  6. Professors in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The term "professors" in the United States refers to a group of educators at the college and university level.In the United States, while "Professor" as a proper noun (with a capital "P") generally implies a position title officially bestowed by a university or college to faculty members with a PhD or the highest level terminal degree in a non-academic field (e.g., MFA, MLIS), [citation needed ...

  7. Subsidy Scorecards: University of Arkansas

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    SOURCE: Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System, University of Arkansas (2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010).Read our methodology here.. HuffPost and The Chronicle examined 201 public D-I schools from 2010-2014.

  8. 7 ways a Trump administration could affect your finances - AOL

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    Alan Auerbach, a professor of economics at UC Berkeley, told CNN that the proposal does not make financial sense. Revenue from tariffs is not enough to replace revenue from federal income tax, he ...

  9. Education - Wikipedia

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    Numerous individuals are directly engaged in the education sector, such as students, teachers, school principals, as well as school nurses and curriculum developers. [90] Various aspects of formal education are regulated by the policies of governmental institutions. These policies determine at what age children need to attend school and at what ...