Educational Links 5/23/17

How Peer Pressure Undermines Success

https://www.edutopia.org/article/how-peer-pressure-undermines-success-youki-terada?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A%20EdutopiaNewContent%20%28Edutopia%29

Here’s how you tie spending to student outcomes—with big success

http://www.eschoolnews.com/2017/05/05/tie-spending-student-outcomes/

Head Start Turns 52 Today. Congress Should Protect Its Funding

http://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2017/05/18/head-start-turns-52-today-congress-should.html?cmp=SOC-EDIT-FB

Creating a Beneficial Gender Diversity in STEM Education

https://globaldigitalcitizen.org/creating-gender-diversity-stem?utm_content=buffer48da6&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer

A Cynic’s Guide to EdTech

http://www.thebestschools.org/magazine/cynics-guide-educational-technology/?utm_content=buffer0fdf0&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer

President Trump's Budget Proposal Calls For Deep Cuts To Education

http://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2017/05/22/529534031/president-trumps-budget-proposal-calls-for-deep-cuts-to-education?utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=education

How Stress Changes A Student’s Brain: The Neurology Of ‘Pressure’

http://teachthought.com/learning/stress-changes-students-brain-neurology-pressure/?utm_content=buffere6498&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer

Stress cuts off students’ access to these networks of higher-order thinking, logic, creative problem solving, and analytical judgment. When there is loss of higher brain control, the lower, reactive brain’s involuntary outputs are in charge. The resulting behaviors are limited to the equivalent of fight/flight/freeze reactions. The student also cannot use the resources of executive functions to understand, evaluate, or apply new learning.