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Classroom prizes and grants available!

Educational Technology Guy

Project Tomorrow is celebrating Speak Up America Week 2014 this week with opportunities for schools and classrooms to win prizes and grants by participating in this year''s Speak Up surveys. 8-12 National Online Surveys Close 12/19: [link] org/speakup/ Irvine, Calif. Today’s findings are about teachers.

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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. What is it?

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Universities increasingly turn to graduate programs to balance their books

The Hechinger Report

The number of master’s degrees alone that are being conferred by universities is up by 66 percent since 2000 , and has tripled since 1970. The number of all-important graduate school applications from abroad is down for the second year in a row, according to the Council of Graduate Schools, after increasing every year since 2003.

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A traditional model of organizational knowledge creation

Connecting 2 the World

It also becomes a tangible representation of tacit knowledge for both group members and those outside of the group (Conceicao, Heitor, & Veloso, 2003; Yaklief, 2002). Second International Conference, iTrust 2004, Oxford, UK. 2000; Moreland & Levine, 2001). References Akgun, A., Lynn, G., & Byrne, J. Human Relations, 56 (7), 839-868.

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College students begin to cry foul about paying more for sports

The Hechinger Report

Told how much of what they paid in fees was going toward athletics, more than 90 percent of students at schools in the Mid-American Conference said in a 2014 survey that they were against the fee or wanted it reduced. Student fees —where athletic subsidizes are often hidden — have been rising even faster than tuition.

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Inside Maine’s disastrous roll out of proficiency-based learning

The Hechinger Report

In a recent survey of the state’s superintendents conducted by the University of Southern Maine, roughly a quarter of respondents said they planned to stick with a proficiency-based diploma, even though the law no longer requires it. In 2003, the Gates Foundation gave RISC $5.8

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What Kids Need for Optimal Health and School Engagement

MindShift

Activities such as sports, visual and performing arts, community service, journalism, and academic clubs can be sources for positive playtime for teenagers (Mahoney, Cairns, & Farmer, 2003;Mahoney, Larson, & Eccles, 2005). Research also shows that you need to find the right balance when it comes to extracurricular activities.