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Passionate About Second Language Acquisition: Meet Inkeri, English Teacher at 51Talk

EdNews Daily

The company’s mission is to make quality education accessible and affordable, and through an online platform. After completing undergraduate school in 2001, I began my teaching career as a substitute teacher at various Oregon districts. My advocacy for second language and culture learning is reflected in my personal life.

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REINVENTING.SCHOOL - Episode 8 Today, "Home as a Place for Learning" #reinventingschool

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Please join us at www.reinventing.school for the live shows as well as access to the recordings (also on YouTube ). More about this week's guests: Patrick Farenga brings more than 34 years of fieldwork, advocacy, and personal experience (he and his wife unschooled their three daughters) to help parents and children learn in their own ways.

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Schools can’t afford to lose any more Black male educators

The Hechinger Report

South Carolina has seen its highest number of educator vacancies this year since the Center for Educator Recruitment, Retention and Advancement started tracking the trend in 2001. These issues can have a greater impact on Black male teachers and other teachers from underrepresented groups. Recruiting teachers is a calling, Thorne said.

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Want to help public education thrive in 2017? Support The Hechinger Report!

The Hechinger Report

If public education is ever going to meet the needs of low-income students, ideas for change must get beyond the constant war of words fueled by advocacy journalism, partisan blogging and fake news. The pervasiveness of advocacy writing helped usher in a “post-truth” era, where people consumed copious amounts of narrative over fact.

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Broken system: Child care subsidies ensure low-quality, limit access

The Hechinger Report

Ultimately, by offering the poorest families insufficient financial assistance to access excellent child care and by denying help to millions more low-income families who can’t afford such care, the federal government is effectively lowering the quality of child care available to a huge segment of the American public. “If Elizabeth Warren.

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Education Technology and 'Fake News'

Hack Education

But at some point, we have to figure out how to clean up this mess. Google’s motto , remember, is to “organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful.” Facebook said it would work with the ed-tech advocacy group Digital Promise to teach digital skills. I get that.