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Teaching from Home and Still Making a Difference: Meet Katharine from 51Talk

EdNews Daily

I have been teaching English as a Foreign Language since 2003, so over 14 years. I finished my undergraduate degree at the University of Massachusetts in 2002. Katharine McAllister has been a TEFL teacher since 2002. If you are interested in learning more about becoming a teacher for 51Talk, please apply here ! About Katharine.

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Chinese New Year- What Animal Am I?

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

1930, 1942, 1954, 1966, 1966, 1978, 1990, 2002, 2014, 2026), you will exhibit these attributes: being energetic, full of life, goal oriented, sociable, easy going, and free-spirited. 1934, 1946, 1958, 1970, 1982, 1994, 2006, 2018, 2030), you are likely to be a person who is loyal, loves to snuggle, is attentive to details, and loves company.

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Why I’m Optimistic About the Next Wave of Education Technology

Edsurge

In 2002, our team at Microsoft Education created an LMS for a world where every teacher and student had a tablet computer. As recently as 1997, only 27 percent of America’s K-12 school had internet access—a number that skyrocketed to 92 percent by 2003. 2004-2011: Washington Leans In. billion in 2010.

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Live Interview Thursday, January 19th - Henry J. Eyring on The Innovative University

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

From 1989 to 1998, Henry worked for Cambridge, Massachusetts-based Monitor Company, a global management consulting firm. He was Director of the BYU MBA Program from 1998 to 2002. From 2003 to 2006, he was President of the Japan Tokyo North Mission of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

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When school districts fall into debt and can’t get out

The Hechinger Report

In 2003, before the Great Recession, Whitmore Lake was like thousands of other school districts across the country. In addition to the housing development falling through, the pharmaceutical company Pfizer, one of the region’s major employers, pulled up stakes in Ann Arbor. Its school buildings were outdated and overcrowded.

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Inside Maine’s disastrous roll out of proficiency-based learning

The Hechinger Report

In 2003, the Gates Foundation gave RISC $5.8 Searsport had started transitioning to a standards-based diploma in 2002, after receiving a share of a $10-million school reform grant that Gates had made to the Sen. million to train additional Alaska school districts and to create a research and development program.

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Wahoo! The 2013 Global Education Conference - Still Time to Present + Plan to Attend!

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

In the past, he turned his interest in technology into several successful online companies, including MyDesktop.com, which sold to Internet.com in 1999. and Hello Hello (Little, Brown and Company Books), and appeared in the Dan Zanes and Friends concert DVD, All Around the Kitchen! Father Goose).Sea