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Chinese New Year- What Animal Am I?

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

1929, 1941, 1953, 1965, 1977, 1989, 2001, 2013, 2025), you are likely to have these traits: thoughtfulness and a profound sense of decision making, you mean what you say, a smart communicator, "you always have the facts to defend your what you think—and rarely back down." If you were born in the Dragon year (e.g.,1928,

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Engaging New Virtual Field Trips from Discovery Education and Partners Welcome Students and Teachers Back to School

eSchool News

Designed for students born after September 11, 2001, this experience highlights the remarkable ways people throughout the United States came together, focusing on our common humanity in the aftermath of the attacks. Inspired by the global media company Discovery, Inc., This virtual experience is appropriate for students in grades 5-9.

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Implementing Innovation Strategies to Make School Districts More Equitable

edWeb.net

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. From 2001-2003, he served as Vermont’s Education Commissioner.

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Why a Robot-Filled Education Future May Not Be as Scary as You Think

Edsurge

PwC explains that the cost of DNA sequencing per genome has fallen from $96 million in 2001 to less than $6,000 in 2013. We freeze up when we hear statistics that project that by 2025, 50 percent of an undergraduate degree will become obsolete. Today, we can purchase a 23andMe kit for $20 for a personal genetic test.

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DEBT WITHOUT DEGREE: Gaps in financial aid, funding contribute to growing number of Georgians with college loans and no college degree

The Hechinger Report

They say that by 2025, more than 60 percent of Georgia jobs will require such credentials, and today only 45 percent of the state’s young adults have them. Both have started their own businesses in the last year; Leon has set up an event planning company, and Sanders is establishing a video production business. he asked himself.

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How one small college exemplifies higher education’s problems and potential solutions

The Hechinger Report

Nationwide, the number of college-age Americans will begin declining after 2025 , the Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education projects, further reducing the supply of prospective customers for which admissions offices everywhere will be competing. Nationwide, the number of freshmen entering colleges fell by an unprecedented 13.1

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