The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JUNE 25, 2020

Farenga’s books include The Beginner’s Guide to Homeschooling (Holt, 1998); Teach Your Own: The John Holt Book of Homeschooling (Perseus, 2003); The Legacy of John Holt: A Man Who Genuinely Understood, Trusted, and Respected Children (HoltGWS, 2013); and his latest publication, How to Report Unschooling to School Officials (HoltGWS, 2015).

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The Daring Librarian

MARCH 7, 2017

STO Take it to the hoop : 100 years of women's basketball (2003) 796.323 STE Winning ways : a photohistory of American women in sports (1996) by Macy, Sue. CUL Women of achievement in Maryland history (2002) by Stegman, Carolyn B Reference Collection - REF 920 STE Fiction: Audacity (2015) by Crowder, Melanie. -

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Edsurge

APRIL 2, 2018

In 2013, local news reports named the area the third most violent zip code in America. During the 2015-16 school year, only 0.7 The neighborhood outside of Fisher Magnet Upper Academy. percent (3 out of 451) of students met state standards in math, and only 4.5 percent met English Language Arts standards.

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edWeb.net

JANUARY 12, 2021

His most recent books are The Crisis of Connection: Roots, Consequences and Solutions with Niobe Way, Carol Gilligan and Alisha Ali (New York University Press, 2018) and Race, Equity and Education: Sixty Years From Brown with Jill Pierce and Roey Ahram (Springer, 2015). and assistant superintendent in Westport, Conn.

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Edsurge

APRIL 26, 2017

Enuma $4 million (A) 2015 TAL Education, Softbank Ventures Korea Epic! million (Seed) 2015 Sinovation Ventures Ready4 $8 million (A) 2016 TAL Education, Yongjin Group, ZhenFund Securly $3 million (Seed) 2013 Sinovation Ventures, ZhenFund Swing Education $7.8 Authess $2.2 million (A) 2016 Sinovation Ventures EnglishCentral $1.3

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 12, 2016

It gave states a deadline of the 2013-14 academic year to have 100 percent of their students demonstrating proficiency in reading, writing and math — a noble, if statistically improbable, goal. But scores dipped in almost all grades and subject areas on the 2015 test compared with 2013. Indeed, a 2013 report from the U.S

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MARCH 15, 2017

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. Gross grew up in Switzerland and has taught English in China.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 10, 2017

By 2015, the most recent year for which the figure is available, it owed $75.3 The annual cost of servicing this accumulated debt more than doubled, from $21 billion in 2003 to $48 billion in 2012, the most recent period for which it has been calculated by researchers at the University of California, Berkeley. That’s up from $28.7

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Tech Helpful

NOVEMBER 18, 2016

In the last few days of the first semester of the 2003-2004 school year I was given the opportunity to speak with the teacher that was leaving the school briefly before he left for Christmas break to understand what the curriculum expectations were for the stand alone computer classes in the elementary school. We've come a long way baby!

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MARCH 28, 2017

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. Gross grew up in Switzerland and has taught English in China.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JANUARY 26, 2017

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. Gross grew up in Switzerland and has taught English in China.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 26, 2016

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. Some of this is national.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 22, 2019

In 2003, before the Great Recession, Whitmore Lake was like thousands of other school districts across the country. By the end of the 2013-14 academic year, Whitmore Lake had lost about 25 percent of its enrollment, dropping from 1,300 to 960 students. Its school buildings were outdated and overcrowded.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 4, 2017

According to a National Center for Education Statistics report , children with behavioral problems are the most common target group for alternative school programs, which served more than 575,000 students in 2013 (the most recent year for which data is available). Photo: Natalie Gross.

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MindShift

JULY 27, 2015

Copyright © 2015. Activities such as sports, visual and performing arts, community service, journalism, and academic clubs can be sources for positive playtime for teenagers (Mahoney, Cairns, & Farmer, 2003;Mahoney, Larson, & Eccles, 2005). 2013; National Sleep Foundation, 2006).

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

Those schools boosted their spending on athletics by 112 percent above inflation from 2003-2004 to 2011-2012 according to the AAUP. Spelman College dropped its entire NCAA intercollegiate athletics program in 2013, with the $1 million in savings going to a campuswide fitness program. But a permanent solution is needed.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

JANUARY 4, 2023

In this study, Cooper et al analyzed a large pool of research studies on homework conducted in the United States between between 1987 and 2003. According to Fernández-Alonso, Suárez-Álvarez and Muñiz ( 2015 ), spending 60 minutes per day doing homework is considered a reasonably effective time. A synthesis of research, 1987–2003.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

AUGUST 24, 2023

The focus on reducing suspensions and implementing universal high-quality management practices resonates with broader societal and educational goals. References Dicke, T., Annett Schmeck, & Leutner, D. Reducing reality shock: The effects of classroom management skills training on beginning teachers. A., & MacSuga-Gage, A. link] Curran, M.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 1, 2016

The number of kids in foster care also started rising in 2013, Sprow said, ending a years-long decline. In order to serve this hidden population, the Senior Services Department in Clayton County, Georgia — where Eschman has raised her grandchildren — started the Kinship Care Program in 2003.

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Iterating Toward Openness

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

[Back in 2012 – 2013] I was impressed (like many others I’m sure) with how Wiley was able to frame the cost-savings argument around open textbooks to build broader interest for OERs. If you’re a longtime reader of Iterating Toward Openness, you’ve read my discussions of means and ends in this context a number of times.

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EdTechTeacher

MARCH 21, 2016

To be successful in a knowledge economy, students will require the ability to complete non-routine tasks, solve unstructured problems, and employ technologies for communication, collaboration, and creation (Autor, & Price, 2013; Collet, Hine, & Plessis, 2015).

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 23, 2018

Certainly, teams have conducted bogus interviews to fulfill the rule’s requirements without any intention of hiring that person, but since the rule was enacted in 2003, the league has seen a significant increase in the number of black head coaches. Sign up for our newsletter. Choose as many as you like. Weekly Update.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 15, 2016

Between the 2013-14 school year and the 2015-16 school year, the city added about 16,000 preschool students and 2,000 teachers. “We When she got her first preschool classroom in 2003 though, she said she had to write her own curriculum and figure out what her kids needed.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 30, 2018

He points to the major reductions the Philadelphia school system made to its counselor rolls , along with its teaching corps, when the district faced a budget crunch in 2013. Today, her department, which adopted the ACSA model in 2015, focuses on three areas: academic counseling, career counseling and social-emotional counseling.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

Pat also wrote the entries about homeschooling for the International Encyclopedia of Education, 3rd Edition (Elsevier, 2010) and the online edition of Encyclopedia Britannica (2015). Pat operates the John Holt/Growing Without Schooling website, www.johnholtgws.com , and is a founding member of www.alternativestoschool.com.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

He received, among many global awards, the million-dollar TED Prize in 2013. In 2003, before the existence of YouTube, she founded ProjectExplorer.org, a free multimedia website designed to educate primary and secondary school students about global issues and world cultures and histories. airing on Discovery in 2020.)

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JULY 30, 2015

Pat also wrote the entries about homeschooling for the International Encyclopedia of Education, 3rd Edition (Elsevier, 2010) and the online edition of Encyclopedia Britannica (2015). Pat operates the John Holt/Growing Without Schooling website, www.johnholtgws.com , and is a founding member of www.alternativestoschool.com.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

Pat also wrote the entries about homeschooling for the International Encyclopedia of Education, 3rd Edition (Elsevier, 2010) and the online edition of Encyclopedia Britannica (2015). Pat operates the John Holt/Growing Without Schooling website, www.johnholtgws.com , and is a founding member of www.alternativestoschool.com.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

It was shut down again a year later in 2015 when a surprise inspection of Manu-Lee’s home found her with 14 children in her care, eight of them infants — four times the legal number of infants for a home-based provider. Right away, King called the Department of Human Services, which oversees the state’s child care office.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 17, 2018

When I started [in 2013] I weighed 145 pounds. He was the first to attend college, and inspired his sister Fabiola to leave home to enter Fresno’s program in 2015. Migrant workers in 2013-14 had, on average, an eighth-grade education.) In the first three months, I lost 15 pounds. Everything I tried to cook would catch on fire.”.

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NeverEndingSearch

NOVEMBER 26, 2016

Hoax-Slayer : Australian Brett Christensen has been debunking email and social media hoaxes and spam since 2003. Snopes : Since way back in the 90s, Snope s has been dispelling urban legends, folklore, myths, rumors, and misinformation. Amy Gillespie’s FART test posted in Knowledge Quest will grab middle schoolers’ attention.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 17, 2017

While higher education funding increased last year in thirty-eight states, Scott Walker’s 2015–17 budget cut another $250 million from the University of Wisconsin system. From fiscal years 2007 to 2015, according to NSF data, federal funding for university- and college-based research grew by 8 percent nationwide.

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Hack Education

MARCH 8, 2017

As part of these modernization efforts , in 2015 the funding cap for E-rate was increased to $3.9 According its January 2017 report, the FCC’s modernization push enabled some 77% of school districts to meet the minimum federal connectivity targets by the end of 2016; just 30% had met those requirements in 2013.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 6, 2017

Some numbers from the year: In January, NPR reported that “as of 2015, more than 2.8 ” In March, Inside Higher Ed reported that the “number of federal loans in default at the end of 2016 increased 14 percent from 2015.” “Women currently hold two-thirds of the $1.3 percent to 11.5 percent to 11.5

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 2, 2016

Secretary of Education Arne Duncan announced in October of last year that he’d step down at the end of 2015. It’s been the goal of the social network since it launched its Internet.org service in 2013 – an effort to bring affordable access – as dictated by and through Facebook – to less developed countries.

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