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When a college degree is no longer a ticket to the middle class

The Hechinger Report

The New York Times found that the proportion of households earning between $35,000 and $100,000 fell from 53 percent in 1967 to 43 percent in 2013. trillion, according to the Federal Reserve, compared with less than $250 billion in 2003. No matter how it’s defined, we know the U.S. Outstanding student loan debt now tops $1.5

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Using Google Tools to Personalize Learning #GoogleEduOnAir

Learning With Lucie

(“The Personal Learning Planner: Collaboration through Online Learning and Publication,“Havelock, Gibson, Sherry, 2003) I feel very fortunate to have been part of an educational landscape that in 2008 had a vision that personalized learning via flexible pathways should be an option for all our students (ACT 44) and that in 2013 passed ( Act 77 ) so (..)

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Nearly 60% of Teens Use Their Own Mobile Devices in School for Learning

The Innovative Educator

This year’s report, Digital Learning 24/7: Understanding Technology – Enhanced Learning in the Lives of Today’s Students , provides landmark findings on the efficacy and value associated with popular digital learning initiatives: blended learning, online learning, school-assigned mobile devices and STEM learning.

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The Emergency Home Learning Summit Final Week - 24 Amazing Interviews Start Tomorrow

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

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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‘You can’t help but to wonder’: Crumbling schools, less money, and dismal outcomes in the county that was supposed to change everything for black children in the South

The Hechinger Report

Since she graduated in 2013, the name of the old high school had changed, but not much else. Back in 2013, more than a fifth of her senior class didn’t graduate. Related : Can online learning level the AP playing field for rural kids? Since 2003, public schools in the state have only been fully funded twice.

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