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Just another resource for teachers out there... welcome to Reddit.

"The researchers calculated how much of the variation in MCAS scores was due to the school that students attended. For MCAS scores in English, schools accounted for 24 percent of the variation, and they accounted for 34 percent of the math MCAS variation. However, the schools accounted for very little of the variation in fluid cognitive skills - less than 3 percent for all three skills combined."

Why Don't Students Like School? Chapter 1

Types of Memory Why Don't Students Like School: Chapter 1

Why dopamine is released both when using drugs and when climbing a mountain. Why Don't Students Like School: Chapter 1

This has the functions of the brain and how they are relevant to our thinking.

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This is a video that breaks it down into more simple means for the students to understand how we categorize our memory when learning.

This shows the process in which learning and memory connect.

Another view of strategies to help memory.

This website gives a more scientific overview of why memory occurs. Which is in part due to long term potentiation of synapses.

This is an entire website dedicated to human memory and how it works at the neuronal levels! It is inclusive of memory disorders and memory processes. Not quite related to what we read, but still pretty cool.

Really cool primary research paper on fear conditioning! Worth the read if you are interested. We read this paper in one of my neurobiology classes in undergrad!

Claymation video of synaptic plasticity. In simpler terms, synaptic plasticity is the rearranging of neurons that can signal onto one another in order to increase brain function and to help create successful long term potentiation of signals (memory!)