Georgia State University said last month that it would accept credit for some classes offered by Coursera, but the grade won't be factored into a student's grade-point average.
Judy Galbraith, a specialist in guidance and counseling of the gifted, recalls a time when her second-grade student brought The Hobbit to class.
Luisa Lizoain, a 16-year-old grade 11 student from the University of Toronto Schools described the experience as life-changing.
Harvard and Columbia researchers found a good fourth-grade teacher makes a student 1.25% more likely to go to college and earn a higher salary.
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He'd represented a grade-school autistic student who sued the Manhattan Beach Unified School District and the California Department of Education for failing to provide him with an appropriate education, including extra reading instruction.
Last year her student Trinh Tran won the title of seventh-grade grand champion in the Zaner-Bloser National Handwriting Contest the equivalent of the national spelling bee of handwriting.
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An international team of researchers carried out simultaneous cross-sectional studies for three student populations (roughly grade 4, grade 8, and students in final year of secondary school) and assessed nearly half a million students in 41 countries.
It basically looks at a single student's prior performance and says: This student, amongst his peers at this grade level, was in the - let's say 60th percentile.
James Blythe, now a student at Oxford, was given a D grade for coursework in his history A-level last year - in contrast to much higher marks for other parts of the exam.
The interdependencies are many--from the fact that a student can't study one concept in one grade unless he or she mastered another one earlier to the mandates from the district and state that dictate how a teacher must teach.
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