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Preparing Young Students for Home Row Keyboarding: An Unplugged Approach

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If students wait to receive formal instruction in secondary grades they may already have too many bad habits engrained ( Bartholome ,1998). National Association for the Education of Young Children , International Society for Technology in Education ). Utah State University, 2003) is an elementary educator. Dr. William L.

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Good analysis of higher ed trends and strategy: Jon McGee’s _Breakpoint_

Bryan Alexander

In the book’s first half McGee does a great job of exploring transformative forces in economics, demographics, and culture. That population is increasingly nonwhite: “By 2023, graduates of color will represent nearly half of all high school graduates… up from one-third in 2003.”

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Good analysis of higher ed trends and strategy: Jon McGee’s _Breakpoint_

Bryan Alexander

In the book’s first half McGee does a great job of exploring transformative forces in economics, demographics, and culture. That population is increasingly nonwhite: “By 2023, graduates of color will represent nearly half of all high school graduates… up from one-third in 2003.”

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India tries coding camps, craft centers and all-girls schools to fight illiteracy

The Hechinger Report

Education is free, lunch is free, books are free, sanitary napkins are free,’’ Ballani tells parents, urging them to visit this government-run school on the edge of the Thar Desert, where, on a warm day late last spring, 12 teachers were overseeing the education of 260 students from first grade through high school. All face obstacles.

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Top 12 apps for law students and the bar exam

Brainscape

Evernote also allows you to use your smartphone camera to scan hard copy documents (like other students’ notes, the whiteboard, or your textbooks), which saves you from carrying around a back-breaking load of books. This saves you a ton of work on determining what’s important to know versus what’s secondary.

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9 Key Classroom Management Skills Backed up with Research

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

And if you’re keen on exploring further, I have another post filled with carefully selected classroom management books. These books provide deeper dives into various strategies, philosophies, and real-world applications, reinforcing the research-based approaches I’m sharing here. American Secondary Education, 41(3), 21–33.

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Kids struggle to read when schools leave phonics out

The Hechinger Report

“I wouldn’t have been able to use that strategy at the secondary level,” she said. There were no pictures in the books her high school students read. The main idea seemed to be: Give kids lots of good books, and with some guidance and enough practice, they become readers. “We had never, ever looked at it.

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