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Virginia Chooses iteach as the Alternative Teacher Certification Provider for 24 Divisions of the Commonwealth

eSchool News

While they’re enrolled, they have free access to the Teaching Channel professional development platform and test prep from Passage Preparation. According to their most recent survey, 96% of school administrators and HR professionals would recommend iteach to their peers.

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Fostering Powerful Use of Technology Through Instructional Coaching

Digital Promise

To address this divide, it is necessary yet insufficient to ensure all schools have access to the internet and devices. 1 McCaffrey, Lockwood, Koretz, & Hamilton, 2003; Rivkin, Hanushek, & Kain, 2000; Rowan, Correnti & Miller, 2002; Wright, Horn, & Sanders, 1997. To learn more about our findings, read the full report.

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Students Today Are Learning All The Time. Can Schools Keep Up?

Edsurge

For more than 15 years, Project Tomorrow has run the popular survey effort called Speak Up , which polls hundreds of thousands of students and adults about learning trends and makes the local data available to individual districts. EdSurge: Tell us a little about the Speak Up Survey. For students today, learning is a 24/7 enterprise.

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OPINION: Why Black student parents are at the epicenter of the student debt crisis — and what we can do about it

The Hechinger Report

When I graduated with a bachelor’s degree from William & Mary in 2003, I desperately needed a job. Generation Hope, the nonprofit I founded in 2010 to help young parents earn their college degrees while readying their children for kindergarten, conducted a national survey of student parents this spring. In recent years, as U.S.

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What researchers learned about online higher education during the pandemic

The Hechinger Report

a university administrator enthused in a survey, referring to a type of scholarship that examines an activity in progress. Nearly three in 10 students in a Strada Education survey in the fall of 2020 said their ability to learn was much worse online than in person. This is action research on steroids!”

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What Your School Needs to Know About Trauma-Informed Practices

Waterford

14] Because of the way childhood trauma affects the brain, it can seriously inhibit a child’s well-being—especially if the child has no access to support. Children’s exposure to violence: A comprehensive national survey. Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Clinics of North America, 2003, 12(2), pp. Finkelhor, D., and Kracke, K.

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This Texas college’s focus on mental health helps students work through trauma, stay on track

The Hechinger Report

We see colleges and universities as being a critical leverage point for facilitating access to mental health care,” Hansch said. “If There’s often a significant delay in between when mental health symptoms arise and when a person gets access to mental health care.”. READ MORE. “We It’s not as simple as just being there for students.

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