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Why Esports in Schools is a Good Thing

ViewSonic Education

As a spectator sport and as an industry. A 2003 analysis of 15 cases of school shooters found all but two suffered from social rejection. Projected at the pro level to eclipse the NBA by 2021 , esports offers rapidly growing career opportunities. Esports as an industry is an expanding area of study at colleges and universities.

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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. From 2001-2003, he served as Vermont’s Education Commissioner. By Robert Low. LISTEN TO THE PODCAST.

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

The Hechinger Report

Among them is 26-year-old Cheven Jones, taking a break from working on his 2003 Lexus IS 300. percent from spring 2021 to 2022, according to the National Student Clearinghouse. Some others linger around a metal picnic table in the parking lot, sipping cool sugary drinks and poking fun at each other’s projects.

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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. They found 1,362 fatalities in child care from 1985 through 2003, 75 percent of them in home-based care, both licensed and unlicensed. The 19th also found one state with outdated statistics: South Dakota’s most recent data is from 2021.

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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. In 2014, the U.S. Credit: Young Kim for The Hechinger Report.

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