Homelessness and learning, with guests Dion Burns and Naomi Ondrasek
Dion Burns and Naomi Ondrasek, researchers with the Learning Policy Institute, talk about the challenges of identifying and supporting students facing housing insecurity.
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Keith Devlin, Stanford mathematician and NPR Weekend Edition “Math Guy," talks about how learning math in the classroom is evolving and why it is more important for students to understand math concepts than it is to repeatedly solve equations.
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