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PROOF POINTS: 861 colleges and 9,499 campuses have closed down since 2004

The Hechinger Report

is one of more than 800 colleges and 9,000 campuses that have closed since 2004. For-profit operators ran more than 80 percent of the 861 institutions that ceased operations between 2004 and 2021. Almost 9,500 campuses closed between 2004 and 2021. Becker College in Worcester, Mass., Credit: Jon Marcus.

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Boost Morale with These Simple Strategies

A Principal's Reflections

Respondents reported that having a fun work environment will increase the levels of enthusiasm, satisfaction, creativity, communications among staff and enhanced feelings of group cohesiveness (Ford et al., 2004), "Making workplace fun more functional", Industrial and Commercial Training, Vol. & Ryan, R. 1994) Promoting Self?determined

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The Problem With Zeros

A Principal's Reflections

This not only reflects grading as punishment but also creates a hole that students cannot dig out of (Guskey, 2000; Reeves, 2004; Reeves, 2008; O'Conner and Wormeli, 2011). Reporting student learning. Below is what the committee came to a consensus on in regard to zeros: No zeros : Students are not to be assigned a grade of zero (0).

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How To Engage Today’s Students in Civics

eSchool News

He as more than 35 years of experience in journalism and freelance writing and was a reporter and editor at Worcester’s Telegram & Gazette from 1987 until 2015. He is the author of Images of America: Sutton (2004) and Images of America: Millbury (2013). Chris is director of communications and media relations at Pioneer Institute.

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PROOF POINTS: Debunking the myth that teachers stop improving after five years

The Hechinger Report

In a 2004 paper, economist Jonah Rockoff, now at Columbia Business School, tracked how teachers improved over their careers and noticed that teachers were getting better at their jobs by leaps and bounds at first, as measured by their ability to raise their students’ achievement test scores. Sign up for the Hechinger newsletter.

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IXL to Acquire Australian Digital Instructional Provider, 3P Learning, for $135 Million

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Founded in 2004, 3P Learning offers a suite of supplemental digital content for math, literacy and science subjects. Like many online education companies, IXL reported a surge in traffic shortly after the pandemic outbreak closed schools in March. school districts.

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Why teach digital writing to students in 2022?

eSchool News

2004 seems so far away now, but it was the year when the US National Commission of Writing published a report revealing the importance of writing skills for getting a job and building a career.