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EdSurge Recommendations for What to Read, Watch and Listen to Over the Holiday Break

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The novel tells the coming-of-age story of three friends who start a video-game design company. The newspaper’s data analysis shows that this form of education is growing quickly , and among different groups of families than in years past. So Babb’s book wasn’t published until 2004.

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What if we hired for skills, not degrees?

The Hechinger Report

On a laptop in the nearly empty office, he worked on code for a webpage he was developing for his employer, the learning materials company Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. In half an hour, he needed to join a conference call about changes to the company’s website. He had been at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt for four months. Degree inflation.

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What Does Innovation Mean in Higher Education?

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You can’t walk around any college campus, school district or company without hearing the word “innovation.” Antoinette Siu) According to Wellington Reither, senior advisor to Crow, planning for ASU’s downtown Phoenix campus began around 2004. Mainardi said of their analysis in Forbes. In other words, what they are good at.

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A New Social Science? Statistics Outgrowing Other STEM Fields

TeachThought - Learn better.

ALEXANDRIA, VA Statistics—the science of learning from data—is the fastest-growing science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) undergraduate degree in the United States over the last four years, an analysis of federal government education data conducted by the American Statistical Association (ASA) revealed.

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June 1 - Panel Discussion on "Unschooling"

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

His experience ranges from spending years working with children at a leading environmental education foundation to serving on boards of universities, of companies, and in the intelligence community. Previously Aldrich was the founder and director of research for Gartner’s online learning analysis.

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More colleges are opening branch campuses in high-demand markets

The Hechinger Report

There are hula-dancing and lei-making lessons and outposts of Hawaii’s iconic Honolulu Cookie Company and ABC convenience stores. Many schools in other places where the number of prospective students is declining “are going through the same population analysis,” Walsh said. More than 40,000 have stayed permanently.

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Fostering a STEM Mindset through Spatial-Temporal Reasoning

MIND Research Institute

Just think of the most innovative companies in the world. 2004), and referenced as a tool to understand DNA structure (Bodner & Shaw, 2004). By middle school, this analysis grows even more advanced. The jobs of the future are in STEM. Many are powered by scientists, technologists, engineers, and mathematicians.

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