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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., Premiere: September 23 rd at 1 PM ET.

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Commemorate the 20th Anniversary of 9/11 with a New Virtual Field Trip hosted by NBC’s Jenna Bush Hager from 9/11 Day and Discovery Education

eSchool News

Developed for students born after September 11, 2001, this experience highlights ways people in the United States came together during and after the terrorist attacks. During this event, students will meet Jenna Bush Hager, co-host of NBC’s Today with Hoda & Jenna , in a town-hall-style session at the 9/11 Tribute Museum.

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State Leadership Working Towards Broadband Access for All

edWeb.net

They collaborate to make sure the technology and services are meeting their current and future needs. She also facilitates the members’ professional learning opportunities including planning and implementing the content for SETDA’s virtual and in-person events and newsletters.

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We Are Strong: The United States After September 11th

EdTechSandyK

Bush, Address to the Nation , September 11, 2001 Ten years after the words above were first spoken, they have been proven true over and over again in large and small ways. I started this day watching coverage of September 11th Tenth Anniversary events in New York. These are some of the ways I noticed their truth just today.

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A Billionaire Benefactor, a Disputed Ballot Issue and a Community College Turnaround

Edsurge

Things changed in 2001, when then-president Carl Nelson died unexpectedly, leaving the campus and its leadership in shock. Before Perot built his fortune through his information-technology company, Electronic Data Systems, and long before he ran for president as a third-party candidate in 1992, Perot was a student at Texarkana College.

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Live and Interactive with Roger Schank on "Our Broken Education System"

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

He is CEO of Socratic Arts , a company whose goal is to design and implement learning-by-doing, story-centered curricula in schools, universities, and corporations. The Elluminate room will be open up to 30 minutes before the event if you want to come in early. Log in at [link]. This is learning in its most rudimentary form.

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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

State spending on the University System of Georgia fell from more than $15,000 per student in 2001 to about $6,000 during the recession, adjusted for inflation, and has only climbed back to about $8,000, Suggs’ analyses found. “I The recession in 2008 caused state tax revenue to plummet and accelerated a decline in higher education funding.