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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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U.S. K-12 Educational Technology Policy: Historical Notes on the Federal Role

Doug Levin

FY 2003 $700,500,000. FY 2006 $272,300,000 (President Bush’s request: $0). Rationale: “ The Congress eliminated much of the program in 2006; the request would complete the process. FY 2013 $0. Appropriations: FY 2002 $700,500,000 (President Bush’s request: $817,096,000). ” FY 2012 $0. FY 2014 $0.

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

The Hechinger Report

The atrium of Whitmore Lake High School, part of a nearly $48 million capital campaign approved by voters in 2006. In 2003, before the Great Recession, Whitmore Lake was like thousands of other school districts across the country. School district debt has grown from nearly $323 billion in 2006 to $443 billion in 2016, according to U.S.

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What happened when a city full of teachers, most of them black, was fired

The Hechinger Report

In 2003, just 15 percent of teachers in large urban districts across the country were black but in New Orleans, teaching was largely a job done by black women: 71 percent of teachers were black and 78 percent were women. But by the fall of 2013, just 22 percent of those educators were still working in New Orleans.

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Register Now for the Open Mini-Conference on Library "Expertise, Competencies, and Careers"

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Combining these experiences, she authored Transforming Our Image, Building Our Brand: The Education Advantage (ABC-CLIO, 2013). Library Journal, June 2013) The growing movement is ushering in a new era for libraries everywhere.

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Helping Others Along – Motivation Theory and the SAMR Model

techlearning

Pursuing a “sense of success”: New teachers explain their career decisions, American Educational Research Journal 40 (3) (2003), pp. New York: Free, 2003. The SAMR Model [link] Based on: Schrock, K (2013) “SAMR – Kathy Schrock’s Guide to Everything.” 2013, [link]. Source Notes (in order of use) Johnson, S.M. &

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New Orleans’ uphill battle for more black and homegrown teachers

The Hechinger Report

In 2003, New Orleans’ seven universities handed out 265 bachelor’s degrees in education, according to federal data. During the 2003-04 school year, black teachers accounted for 72 percent of New Orleans’ educators. In 2015, UNO granted 48 bachelor’s degrees in education, down from 136 in 2003. Last year, they gave out just 93.