techlearning

OCTOBER 9, 2018

Founded in 2003, iteach offers a unique online coursework format and accreditation for individuals who have a four-year degree. While completing the iteach certification program, individuals will participate in a one-year, two-semester paid residency during which time they are employed full-time as a teacher in their chosen field of study.

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Edsurge

MAY 16, 2018

That means that “the companies we invest in are efficacy-focused and engaging in third-party studies to make sure the products work.” One deal that’s in the works, he teased, is a startup focused on STEM and computer science. With measured expectations come measured results. million sale last year to Educational Testing Service.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 27, 2018

For example, students often have to design experiments that involve manipulating a situation in some way, whereas many actual scientists, such as primatologists and astronomers, simply study their subjects over time, looking for patterns in that data. Jane Goodall would not have had her science fair project accepted. It’s distracting.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 5, 2021

Before the pandemic, the number of Black families homeschooling was rising swiftly, doubling between 2003 and 2018. As numerous studies have shown, Black students are not only more likely to be disciplined , but also more harshly and for lesser offenses, than their white peers. percent, according to Census Bureau data.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 10, 2017

The annual cost of servicing this accumulated debt more than doubled, from $21 billion in 2003 to $48 billion in 2012, the most recent period for which it has been calculated by researchers at the University of California, Berkeley. Related: Universities and colleges struggle to stem big drops in enrollment. That’s up from $28.7

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Learning with 'e's

MARCH 1, 2016

Other tools such as wikis, blogs and podcasts also began to be used in education, at first tentatively, and then as embedded features in various programmes of study. My initial interest in researching the social web stemmed from some early work my colleagues and I did around wikis and blogs in medical education in 2005-2006.

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Edsurge

APRIL 26, 2017

The masochistic obsession with studying has deep roots. TAL Education Group , which began as a solo tutoring operation in 2003 and has since grown into a publicly-traded empire, boasting $620 million in revenue in 2015 from a network of over 300 brick-and-mortar tutoring centers. That history is not lost on investors.

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MindShift

DECEMBER 22, 2016

Excerpted from Making Science: Reimagining STEM Education in Middle School and Beyond by Christa Flores, published in 2016 by Constructing Modern Knowledge Press. 2003; Cornett 1986). By Christa Flores. When students invent, they take ownership over an idea, then face real-world problems en route to making their idea come to life.

Education 28

Education STEM Assessment Report 28

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 6, 2019

Renick came to Georgia State as a religious studies professor in the 1980s. These are classes that students take early in college that predict whether a student can actually pass the toughest required courses that will come later in their field of study. But some STEM majors are tougher than others.

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MindShift

DECEMBER 31, 2018

The series had a steady presence on this list and even topped it at times, through 2003. She says all of the pushback she has gotten stems from the theme of witchcraft in the books. A year after the first book’s U.S. Parents in many states tried to push school boards and districts to ban the books.

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MindShift

JANUARY 24, 2019

This story about STEM education was produced by The Hechinger Report , a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education. Since 2003, more than 15 million 6- to 11- year-olds at thousands of schools across the country have been taught how to think like engineers using the curriculum.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 25, 2017

Nearly 40 percent of students starting at 4-year public institutions took at least one developmental (or college-level readiness) course while enrolled from 2003 to 2009. For the University of Alaska, that number is even higher: an internal study shows 60 percent of students required developmental coursework over the last 10 years.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 24, 2019

Some, like the Alaska Native Science and Engineering Program , have been inordinately successful at guiding underrepresented students, including many young women, from middle school algebra through to a college degree in a STEM subject. Related: Alaska Native students pursue STEM with great success.

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The Innovative Educator

MAY 3, 2015

This year’s report, Digital Learning 24/7: Understanding Technology – Enhanced Learning in the Lives of Today’s Students , provides landmark findings on the efficacy and value associated with popular digital learning initiatives: blended learning, online learning, school-assigned mobile devices and STEM learning.

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MindShift

FEBRUARY 4, 2016

One major point that the studies have proven is something you might already guess: Lectures don’t really work. Students who take LA-supported courses are more engaged in their studies and up to 10 percent more likely to graduate. “Katie’s the best,” says Brenda Ortiz, a junior studying psychology and education.

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Blackboard Learning STEM Course 28

Hack Education

APRIL 14, 2017

In other STEM news, Pornhub awards a “women in tech” scholarship. Via Inside Higher Ed : “New study suggests female professors outperform men in terms of service – to their possible professional detriment.” Via Inside Higher Ed : “Study Examines Loan Aversion by Population.”

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

In 2005, Joan Didion published The Year of Magical Thinking , which chronicles her husband’s death in December 2003, shortly after their daughter had fallen into septic shock and been placed an induced coma. Indeed, she’s quite methodical with her study – her inspection, introspection – of grief. So many losses.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 20, 2017

The tech industry made a number of high profile donations and pledges this year, coinciding with the Trump administration’s announcement this fall that it would earmark $200 million in grants for computer science and STEM education.

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Robotics Company Industry Data 63

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 29, 2022

Even so, its enrollment had dwindled from a high of 2,250 students in 2003 to about 1,000 by 2020. Trump also signed a bipartisan bill making $255 million in funding permanent for STEM programs at HBCUs and other institutions that serve high numbers of Black, Hispanic, and Native American students.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 17, 2017

In this case, the researchers are studying the movements of a volunteer fitted with sensors that track his skeleton and muscles as he bends and lifts. The University of Wisconsin is where human embryonic stem cells first were isolated, and it has since become a center of stem cell research.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 2, 2016

“ Facebook Is Not a Technology Company ,” media studies professor Ian Bogost also wrote in August. ” “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.

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