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Tre terminer och kortare sommarlov. Det är modellen för Amerikanska gymnasiet i Göteborg. Enligt rektorn finns det över 50 studier som stödjer deras inriktning. Men enligt professor Christian Lundahl finns det få studier som jämfört två- och treterminssystem. Däremot stödjer flera studier att det finns negativa effekter med ett långt sommarlov. Läs vidare [Svt]

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Where teachers thrive: Organizing school for success

Bokrecension Susan Moore Johnson has spent a lifetime studying teachers in their workplaces. In her new book, Where Teachers Thrive: Organizing Schools for Success, she helps us understand more about how context matters. To emphasize the central importance of the environment of schools for teachers, when the research team “compared schools demographically similar, we found

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A growth mindset intervention can change students’ grades if school culture is supportive

Boosting academic success does not have to derive from new teachers or curriculum; it can also come from changing students’ attitudes about their abilities through a short online intervention, according to the latest findings from the National Study of Learning Mindsets published in Nature on Aug. 7. The experimental study involved more than 12,000 ninth

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Novel school improvement program can raise teaching quality while reducing inequality

A multi-national European study, looking at over 5,500 students, has found that a novel school intervention program can not only improve the mathematics scores of primary school children from disadvantaged areas, but can also lessen the achievement gap caused by socioeconomic status. Läs mer [EurekAlert!]

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