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Research Conversation: What is Executive Functioning?
From Change Starts Here · Hosted by Dustin Odham
Episode summary
In this episode of Change Starts Here: <p>As the 2023-2024 academic season begins, educators, researchers, and parents are scratching their heads about a troubling trend: a continued slide in academic achievement. While many point to the <a href=" rel="nofollow">pandemic as the culprit</a>, a deeper, less-visible issue may be at play.
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<p>As the 2023-2024 academic season begins, educators, researchers, and parents are scratching their heads about a troubling trend: a continued slide in academic achievement. While many point to the <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/pandemic-learning-slide-continues-for-13-year-olds-making-full-recovery-unlikely-3fe4b085" rel="nofollow">pandemic as the culprit</a>, a deeper, less-visible issue may be at play. Educational researchers have shown that a student’s executive functioning–their…