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Why Professors Need to Work to Inspire Their Students

Edsurge

In Ken Bain’s longitudinal study of how superb post-secondary educators approach their teaching, he asserts the importance of attaining and maintaining students’ attention. Bain writes in What the Best College Teachers Do (2004): “They consciously try to get students’ attention with some provocative act, question, or statement.”

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The Rough Beasts of Ed-Tech

Hack Education

Rebellions and republics – I thought briefly about calling this talk “The Terrible Beauty of Ed-Tech,” a reference to W. It’s also a matter of a $40 million civil suit against Trump University, a business that Donald Trump and two associates founded in 2004. Trump University was never an accredited university.

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CRT debate repeats past battles about state history textbooks

The Hechinger Report

Richardson, who served as state superintendent until 2004, attributed the heightened scrutiny to a crackdown on school performance. They also recruited scores of textbook reviewers, ranging from “interested citizens” to engineers at the power company. It was a big issue because we felt we had a responsibility,” Smith said.

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