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Implementing Innovation Strategies to Make School Districts More Equitable

edWeb.net

McNulty is the president of the National Dropout Prevention Center (NDPC) and the Successful Practices Network (SPN). Prior to that, Ray was Dean for the School of Education at Southern New Hampshire University which Fast Company Magazine named the 12th most innovative organization in the world in its World’s 50 Most Innovative Companies.

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Change One Simple Thing to Start Your Journey to Remarkable Teaching

The CoolCatTeacher

” We have a significantly low dropout rate and high on-time graduation rate in Albemarle. Dr. Moran has appeared on the cover of Education Week’s Digital Directions magazine as a “National Mover and Shaker” for her advocacy of a curricular digital integration model, which will be featured in an upcoming profile by Edutopia.

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How a Billionaire’s Fellowship Spread Skepticism About College’s Value

Edsurge

By the end of the interview, Thiel asked him to help him teach a class at Stanford Law School on philosophy and technology, and he hired him as an analyst at his fund. The editor of Slate magazine at the time, Jacob Weisberg, called it a “nasty idea.” He said they bonded over a shared interest in the French philosopher René Girard.

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Why education is really a relationship business

eSchool News

From the time I was 19, I worked in newspapers, then magazines, radio and television. I landed an editor’s gig for an education magazine and for the first time in my professional life, I found a home. Writing, speaking, creating magazines and television shows and radio broadcasts. I love meeting people in the education biz.

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Who Will Teach the Children? The 3 Keys to Building Globally Competitive, World Class Schools

EdNews Daily

Schargel is a former classroom teacher, school counselor and school administrator who successfully designed, developed and helped implement a process that: dramatically increased parental engagement, increased post-secondary school attendance and significantly lowered his Title 1 high school’s dropout rate.

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Who will Teach the Children?

EdNews Daily

A report by Richard Ingersoll has observed that new teachers are particularly vulnerable because they are more likely than more experienced teachers to be assigned to low-performing schools in urban areas, where the dropout rates reach or exceed 50 percent. Clearly, something must be done to address the teacher dropout problem.

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We won’t have any black Mark Zuckerbergs or Bill Gates till we do this

The Hechinger Report

About one-third of all black collegians earn degrees in either a STEM-related (science, technology, engineering and math) field or in business, according to my analysis of integrated post-secondary education data system (IPEDS), the national dataset of college outcomes. Black students struggle to acquire wealth. percent).”

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