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Classroom prizes and grants available!

Educational Technology Guy

Project Tomorrow is celebrating Speak Up America Week 2014 this week with opportunities for schools and classrooms to win prizes and grants by participating in this year''s Speak Up surveys. As part of this special week, Project Tomorrow will be releasing preliminary findings from the 2014 surveys completed so far.

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Culturally Responsive Teaching: Tips and Strategies for Educators

Waterford

December 2003. Indicator 6: Elementary and Secondary Enrollment. Journal of the International Association of Special Education, 2014, 15(2), pp. A Framework for Culturally Responsive Teaching. Educational Leadership, September 1995, 53(1), pp. Pewewardy, C., and Hammer, P.C. Teaching To and Through Cultural Diversity.

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

Doug Levin

For each of the three primary (equity-focused) federal educational technology programs authorized by Congress since the passage of the 1994 revision to the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), below I provide details on the programs’: legislative authorization (i.e., FY 2003 $700,500,000. FY 2014 $0. FY 2013 $0.

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Seeing the Pandemic as an Opportunity for Change

edWeb.net

Before joining the faculty at UCLA he served as a tenured professor and holder of endowed chairs at New York University (2004–2015), Harvard University (2000–2003), and the University of California, Berkeley (1990–2000). Noguera was recently appointed to serve as a special advisor to the governor of New Mexico on education policy.

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Shocking data reveals Millennials lacking skills across board

eSchool News

are attaining higher levels of education since 2003, the numeracy scores of U.S. Since 2003, the percentages of U.S. The PIAAC this month, in partnership with the National Center for Education Statistics ( NCES ), released a more nuanced look at 2012’s data, as well as included more data collected during Round 2 in 2014.

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One of the poorest cities in America was succeeding in an education turnaround. Is that now in peril?

The Hechinger Report

The report acknowledged that students in several grade levels and subjects were exceeding expectations and that test scores were rebounding, but it also pointed to challenges: minimal advances in student learning since 2003, persistent achievement gaps between student demographic groups, few students ready for college at graduation.

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School counselors keep kids on track. Why are they first to be cut?

The Hechinger Report

Closing that gap and getting kids to continue their training after high school is especially important here: 74 percent of jobs will require post-secondary education by 2020. As of the 2014-15 school year, Colorado’s student-to-counselor ratio was 383-1, a marked decrease from a 2007 level of 500 students per school counselor.

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