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  2. Summer learning loss - Wikipedia

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    Students score lower on standardised maths tests at the end of the summer, as compared to their own performance on the same tests at the beginning of summer. [11] This loss was most acute in factual and procedural learning such as mathematical computation, where an average setback of more than two months of grade-level equivalency was observed among both middle- and lower-class students.

  3. Garden-based learning - Wikipedia

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    Garden-based learning (GBL) encompasses programs, activities and projects in which the garden is the foundation for integrated learning, in and across disciplines, through active, engaging, real-world experiences that have personal meaning for children, youth, adults and communities in an informal outside learning setting. Garden-based learning ...

  4. Accelerated Reader - Wikipedia

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    Educator Jim Trelease however, describes Accelerated Reader, along with Scholastic's Reading Counts!, as "reading incentive software" in an article exploring the pros and cons of the two software packages. [18] Stephen D. Krashen, in a 2003 literature review, also asserts that reading incentives is one of the aspects of Accelerated Reader. He ...

  5. Texas education officials approve optional school curriculum ...

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    A slim majority of the board’s 15 members – eight to seven – voted to keep the Bluebonnet Learning material on a list of K-5 reading and English language arts materials for potential use in ...

  6. Some Hispanic men are defining college differently. Ponjuán told the story of a Corpus Christi man in his 40s who earned a commercial driver’s license certificate to get a better job and ...

  7. Sustained silent reading - Wikipedia

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    Sustained silent reading (SSR) is a form of school-based recreational reading, or free voluntary reading, where students read silently in a designated period every day, with the underlying assumption being that students learn to read by reading constantly. While classroom implementation of SSR is fairly widespread, some critics note that the ...

  8. Losing muscle may increase risk of developing dementia - AOL

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    Individuals with higher levels of muscle loss are more at risk of adverse health outcomes, including falls and fractures. The latest study concludes that sarcopenia is also linked to an increased ...

  9. BSCS Science Learning - Wikipedia

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    In the summer of 1960, the BSCS convened an intensive summer writing conference in Boulder, at which three new high school biology textbooks were developed. The three versions were: Blue, a molecular biology approach; Green, an ecology approach; and Yellow, a cellular biology approach. These three versions, and their corresponding newly ...