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Chinese “parachute kids” tackle U.S. schools on their own

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See if you can keep your grades up, stay happy and still get into that elite college! “There’s an increase in wealth in the newly minted middle class, and a lot of parents want [their children] to have the U.S. ARCADIA, Calif. Ryan Ren, 14, loves the soccer fields around his middle school in Arcadia, California.

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More high school grads than ever are going to college, but 1 in 5 will quit

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There are some people who have situations, who get pregnant or financial things change,” said Caleb Sparks, a double major in biology and electrical engineering hanging out between classes in the air-conditioned student center. “I TAMU-Texarkana may be the smallest of the system’s 11 campuses, but it’s been growing steadily.

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It’s not about sex: Teaching young children where babies come from (and other stuff)

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And since young children are the ultimate egoists, wanting to know everything they can about themselves and their surroundings, both parents and teachers should be prepared for lots of questions about who can touch who, what the body parts between our legs are called, why Sammy gets to have two mommies and, yes, where babies come from.

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Education Technology and the 'New Economy'

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This is part six of my annual review of the year in ed-tech. pic.twitter.com/BBhsgwY2FZ — Audrey Watters (@audreywatters) August 1, 2016. I first read an article by Seymour Papert in a Women’s Studies class in the mid 1990s – “ Epistemological Pluralism ,” which he co-wrote with Sherry Turkle.