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Computer literacy: The invisible skills gap?

Neo LMS

While the teachers in my audience will probably know the difference, it does not help that the Common Core Standards are exceptionally vague about the type of digital skills students need to exhibit. Enter the knowledge-based economy – a trending topic across sectors more or less from 2003 onward. I find this fascinating.

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Passionate About Second Language Acquisition: Meet Inkeri, English Teacher at 51Talk

EdNews Daily

In 2003-2004, I taught a first grade English immersion classroom for the City of Espoo’s Jalavapuisto elementary school. I began the interview and trainings process with 51Talk and was immediately enthusiastic about this new teaching adventure. The flexible teaching schedule caught my attention.

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Kids struggle to read when schools leave phonics out

The Hechinger Report

” Related: Can Common Core reading tests ever be fair? Roshunda Harris-Allen and Trashonda Dixon in LETRS training. Though her teaching experience and training were in the upper grades, too, she’d been a principal at one of Bethlehem’s elementary schools. Silva wanted to figure out what was going on.

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A charter school faces the ugly history of school choice in the Deep South

The Hechinger Report

What used to be the black side of town has few active businesses, in contrast to the cluster of activity on the other side of the train tracks. Ben Lewis, a white newcomer who runs a job-training program tied to a café, said he worried that he would have to move away when his children reached school age. Habari gani!”

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Via Education Week : “Even When States Revise Standards, the Core of the Common Core Remains.” This group of older borrowers collectively hold $247 billion in student debt, an amount that has roughly tripled since 2003.” The Business of Job Training. You just need the right training apparently.

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The Politics of Education Technology

Hack Education

The Common Core. ” “Net neutrality,” a term coined in 2003 by Columbia University law professor Tim Wu, is the principle that all Internet traffic – regardless of source or content or user – should be treated equally. Political correctness. Foreign students. Government involvement in student loans.