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5 Best Practices for STEM Education Spaces

EdTech Magazine

Thomas School has built two dedicated spaces to bolster STEM education, and plans to build a two-floor, state-of-the-art learning space called the Center for Leadership Innovation by 2020. It’s a creative space where students not only can build things, but also create things, such as a new advocacy program on a social issue. “In

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What the World Can Teach the US About Education Technology

Edsurge

Governments, educators, advocacy groups and companies large and small need to work better together. China’s Education Modernization 2030 Policy and Ten Year Development Plan for ICT and Education 2010-2020 are among government initiatives named that intend to improve the country’s education in the long run. Whereas the U.S.

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Colleges’ new solution to enrollment declines: Reducing the number of dropouts

The Hechinger Report

A concerted campuswide campaign that includes interventions like the one that rescued Dickinson has since more than doubled that proportion, to nearly half in 2020, the last year for which the figure is available. Credit: Saul Martinez for The Hechinger Report. At community colleges, nearly half the students quit after their first year.

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Twilight of income-share agreements to pay for college?

The Hechinger Report

But payment caps can be as high as three times the funded amount, according to a 2020 report by the Student Borrower Protection Center, an advocacy group. Lenaya Flowers, 30, graduated from the Houston campus of the Flatiron School, a coding boot camp, in May 2020. Credit: Image provided by Lenaya Flowers.

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Thousands of families in special education limbo

The Hechinger Report

Eli’s mom, Alice Stuart, contacted the school in January 2020 to launch the process to formally evaluate her child for dyslexia and dyscalculia, a math disability. Not all districts have complied, said Dustin Rynders, a supervising attorney with the advocacy group Disability Rights Texas. “In We’re working really hard with our staff.

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Mini-Conference for Small, Rural, and Independent Libraries - Wednesday, June 17th #library20

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

TechSoup is a San Francisco headquartered high-tech nonprofit whose mission is to tech up charities and public libraries worldwide by providing software, hardware, and the knowledge to use them. Jennifer’s background includes over 10 years working for OCLC where she honed her skills in library advocacy, marketing and public relations.

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June 17th - Library 2.0 Mini-Conference on "Small, Rural, and Independent Libraries" - Speaker Listing

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

TechSoup is a San Francisco headquartered high-tech nonprofit whose mission is to tech up charities and public libraries worldwide by providing software, hardware, and the knowledge to use them. Jennifer’s background includes over 10 years working for OCLC where she honed her skills in library advocacy, marketing and public relations.