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Computer Science Unplugged: off-line activities and games for all ages (PDF)
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PLTW Assessment Roadmap
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Attendance rates and graduation rates significantly improved in schools with delayed start times of 8:30 AM or later. School officials need to take special notice that this investigation also raises questions about whether later start times are a mechanism for closing the achievement gap due to improved graduation rates.

Employment Outcomes of Bachelor’s Degree Holders (PDF)

The average unemployment rate for 25- to 29-year old bachelor’s degree holders was lower in 2018 than in 2010 (2.9 vs. 5.6 percent). However, the median annual earnings of these 25- to 29-year-olds, in constant 2018 dollars, were not measurably different between these two years.

A Mathematician’s Lament - Paul Lockhart

Since musicians are known to set down their ideas in the form of sheet music, these curious black dots and lines must constitute the “language of music.” It is imperative that students become fluent in this language if they are to attain any degree of musical competence; indeed, it would be ludicrous to expect a child to sing a song or play an instrument without having a thorough grounding in music notation and theory. Playing and listening to music, let alone composing an original piece, are considered very advanced topics and are generally put off until college, and more often graduate school.

Sleepmore in Seattle: Later school start times are associated with more sleep and better performance in high school students (PDF)

Most teenagers are chronically sleep deprived. One strategy proposed to lengthen adolescent sleep is to delay secondary school start times. This would allow students to wake up later without shifting their bedtime, which is biologically determined by the circadian clock, resulting in a net increase in sleep. So far, there is no objective quantitative data showing that a single intervention such as delaying the school start time significantly increases daily sleep. The Seattle School District delayed the secondary school start time by nearly an hour. We carried out a pre-/post-research study and show that there was an increase in the daily median sleep duration of 34 min, associated with a 4.5% increase in the median grades of the students and an improvement in attendance.

Spaced Repetition for Efficient Learning - Gwern

Spaced repetition is a centuries-old psychological technique for efficient memorization & practice of skills where instead of attempting to memorize by ‘cramming’, memorization can be done far more efficiently by instead spacing out each review, with increasing durations as one learns the item, with the scheduling done by software. Because of the greater efficiency of its slow but steady approach, spaced repetition can scale to memorizing hundreds of thousands of items (while crammed items are almost immediately forgotten) and is especially useful for foreign languages & medical studies.

A Teenager’s Guide to Avoiding Actual Work

How in 1982, the author successfully hacked his way out of having to fill in potholes.

Want to Fix Public Schools? Fix the Public First - Aero Magazine

[P]ublic schools are the public’s schools. They are constitutionally mandated, democratically governed, locally controlled and taxpayer funded. They are, in other words, political institutions. Which means that, while it has become commonplace to think of parents, employers, taxpayers, assorted special interest groups and students themselves as public school stakeholders or consumers of public schooling, they are in fact its constituents. This is true in all three common meanings of the term: 1) as residents of jurisdictions whose taxes support them; 2) as authorizers of school officials delegated to represent their interests; and 3) as essential parts, components or elements of the institution. I emphasize this last definition because it’s one that the conventional language of stakeholders and consumers obscures. The character and quality of public schools are determined not only by the professionals who staff them, but also by the families who attend them, the communities that support (or decline to support) them, the groups that pressure them, the plaintiffs who sue them and the lawmakers who govern and regulate them. We too constitute the schools.

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