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Why Esports in Schools is a Good Thing

ViewSonic Education

As a spectator sport and as an industry. Educators know that taking part in extracurricular activities boosts student success. They do better in math and reading and more often aspire to higher education. They care more about their education. More likely to aspire to higher education. Esports are here to stay.

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Trade programs — unlike other areas of higher education — are in hot demand

The Hechinger Report

While almost every sector of higher education is seeing fewer students registering for classes, many trade school programs are booming with young people who are choosing trade school over a traditional four-year degree. Among them is 26-year-old Cheven Jones, taking a break from working on his 2003 Lexus IS 300.

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Implementing Innovation Strategies to Make School Districts More Equitable

edWeb.net

The disruptions and changes during the past year have made a return to the industrial education model of the 19th and 20th centuries problematic for school districts committed to preparing diverse students for 21st century careers. He is also a senior fellow at the International Center for Leadership in Education. By Robert Low.

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A ‘shockingly broken system’: More than a dozen states are failing to meet child care safety regulations

The Hechinger Report

Systems like background checks and data tracking are key safety mechanisms in any industry. I was a little taken aback,” said Sims, who went on to found The Abecedarian Group, a child care and education consulting agency. Wisconsin, which failed to include data on four deaths in its 2021 report, updated it after The 19th’s questions.

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Climate change threatens America’s ragged school infrastructure

The Hechinger Report

In May 2021, Selma Casagranda, 18, and Annika Nilsson, 17, ride the Nilsson family ATV along Lost Creek — the stream that floods Nilsson’s neighborhood in Seward, Alaska, each fall — and point to where a house once stood before flood waters made the property useless. Mike Dunleavy, a former educator. In 2014, the U.S. billion and $5.5

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