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Personalized E-Learning: Using Hybrid Recommendation Strategy and Learning Style Identification to Enhance Learner Engagement and Outcomes

Introduction In recent years, e-learning has become increasingly popular as more and more people seek to obtain education and acquire new skills through online platforms. However, the traditional one-size-fits-all approach to education has proven to be less effective in online learning environments, and personalized learning has emerged as a promising solution. Personalized learning is the …

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Building a Culturally Responsive Classroom

In order to build inclusive and culturally responsive classrooms in 2023, it is important for educators to understand the significance of multicultural education and the impact of cultural exclusion on students’ emotional well-being. Culturally responsive teaching is an approach to education that recognizes and values the cultural backgrounds of all students and incorporates that understanding …

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School Districts’ Remote-Learning Plans May Widen Student Achievement Gap

Only 20 percent of schools meet standards for “rigorous” remote-learning instruction The rapid pace of Covid-19–related school closures forced districts to switch to remote-learning plans under incredible time pressure. This urgent instructional retooling led to wide variation in program quality across a number of factors—including when remote instruction actually began. While many districts responded quickly …

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Attacking the Black–White Opportunity Gap That Comes from Residential Segregation

Attacking the Black–White Opportunity Gap That Comes from Residential Segregation KIMBERLY QUICK AND RICHARD D. KAHLENBERG Residential segregation between black and white Americans remains both strikingly high and deeply troubling. Black–white residential segregation is a major source of unequal opportunity for African Americans: among other things, it perpetuates an enormous wealth gap and excludes black …

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Problem Solving Mathematics – It Just Makes Sense

Historically, learning mathematics and teaching it to all students at the school stage has been motivated by the belief that a study of mathematics helps students to learn to reason and apply such reasoning to everyday problems. It is believed that learning mathematics leads to learners’ cognitive development. Thus, one of the important questions that …

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Stop Talking

In the wake of the protests over the past week, I have made some time to read a number of statements by other college and university presidents. Eloquently written, they remind us of our values. Some people said they stand against hate, bigotry, profound ignorance and casual cruelty. Others discussed valuing inclusiveness and equality, as …

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A Sense of Mattering: A Group Intervention for African American Boys

Research shows that African American students with higher quality student–teacher relationships scored higher on achievement tests compared to African American students with lower quality relationships A Sense of Mattering: A Group Intervention for African American Boys Eva M. Gibson, Mariama Cook Sandifer, Winifred Bedford Abstract African American boys have been disproportionately represented in school discipline …

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Black Boys Matter: Strategies for a Culturally Responsive Classroom

This kind of exposure is critical to the boys’ development of a healthy sense of self and agency. This is the second of two articles discussing ways teachers can make their classrooms more welcoming and supportive learning spaces for Black boys. The first article, “Black Boys Matter: Cultivating Their Identity, Agency, and Voice,” was published …

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Black Boys Matter: Cultivating Their Identity, Agency, and Voice – Part 1

How can teachers learn to identify and address their own biases and increase their cultural competence? This is the first of two articles discussing ways teachers can make their classrooms more welcoming and supportive learning spaces for Black boys. Hakeem, a 4-year-old Black boy, is enrolled at a preschool where most of the staff is …

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Culturally Responsive Curriculum

Culturally responsive teaching is a pedagogy that recognizes the importance of including students’ cultural references in all aspects of learning. 5 CULTURALLY RESPONSIVE TEACHING STRATEGIES Over the past few decades, students, their experiences, upbringings, and backgrounds have changed. Classrooms now reflect families of varying races, cultures, and socioeconomic statuses. As a result, the way teachers …

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