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After-school Programs, a Boon for Learning, Could Face Trump Cuts

NPR reached out to the U.S. Department of Education multiple times for comment about which federal grants are proposed for

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100+ Bloom’s Taxonomy Verbs For Critical Thinking

by TeachThought Staff Bloom’s Taxonomy’s verbs–also known as power verbs or thinking verbs–are extraordinarily powerful instructional planning tools. In fact,

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126 Digital Learning Verbs Based on Bloom’s Taxonomy –

by TeachThought Staff At TeachThought, we’re enthusiastic supporters of any learning taxonomy. (We even created our own, the TeachThought Learning Taxonomy.)

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A Bloom’s Digital Taxonomy For Evaluating Digital Tasks

by TeachThought Staff At TeachThought, we’ve described Bloom’s Taxonomy as “a hierarchical ordering of cognitive skills that can, among countless

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It’s Tough World. Here’s How Parents Can Raise Resilient Kids

When Devon B. was in the fourth grade, the elementary school she attended in Chatham, NJ, noted the wintry conditions

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What Happens to Reading Comprehension When Kids Focus on the Main Idea

“Early research showed that background knowledge plays a part,” said Kausalai Wijekumar, a professor of education at Texas A&M University,

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10 Student Engagement Strategies That Empower Learners – TeachThought

by Terry Heick Agreeing on how to best establish what a learner understands isn’t simple — if for no other

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9 Things to Know About the Big, Private-school Voucher Plan in Republicans’ Tax Bill

“If it funds private school tuition, it’s a voucher,” says Josh Cowen, a professor at Michigan State University who, after

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Educators Fear Their Homeless Students Could Become a Target for Trump Cuts

Dayana said that stability has helped her learn English. “Because my English improved here. The teachers helped me a lot

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21 Smart Games For Game-Based Learning

by TeachThought Staff There is a difference between gamification and game-based learning, and this post focuses on the latter. Essentially,