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Supporting Multilingual Learners in Early Elementary Education

Waterford

In addition, multilingual families need access to resources that help them feel welcome in school and engaged with their student’s teacher. Encouraging Culturally Responsive Teaching for Multilingual Learners Prioritizing multilingual support and education in schools helps engage multilingual families.

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Climate Change Took a Heavy Toll on the U.S. Last Year. What’s the Cost to Education?

Edsurge

With experts predicting more extreme weather in 2023, that undoubtedly means schools will suffer more disruptions in a K-12 education era already defined by pandemic-related learning setbacks. Climate Change’s Education Cost Climate change impacts on K-12 education are a problem worldwide. In the U.S.,

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A Sideways Look at the Future of Higher Education

Edsurge

So a sideways look at consumer behaviors when it comes to music, movies and newspapers provides insight into where higher education is going and what leaders can do to prepare for the future. Newspaper circulation dropped by nearly half between 2005 and 2018, from 53.3 million to 28.5 billion to $14.3 Many colleges are nonprofits.

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Want to Rethink Education After COVID-19? Creative Solutions Mean Taking More Risks

Edsurge

In 2005, Hurricane Katrina literally washed away the New Orleans public school system. You may not like the new charter school presence in New Orleans, but those schools came about because local educators seized the opportunities presented by Katrina and acted upon them as entrepreneurs. Public education will never be the same.

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Helpful Tips to Integrate Media Literacy in Your Teaching

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

As for the Ontario Association for Media Literacy (AML) (cited in Duncan, 2005) “Media literacy is concerned with developing an informed and critical understanding of the nature of the mass media, the techniques used by them, and the impact of these techniques. As educators, it’s our role to prepare students for the real world.

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OPINION: After years of silent sacrifices and unseen struggles, Black women are still holding up the child care industry

The Hechinger Report

The impact of Black people in early care and education cannot be overstated. Early education and child care represent the most racially diverse and lowest-paid sector of the teaching workforce. And Black child care educators earn an average of 78 cents less per hour than their white counterparts. workforce, 18 percent of U.S.

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Transcription and Accessibility—New Partnerships from Microsoft and Amazon

Edsurge

On the heels of one another, two tech titans recently announced higher-education partnerships that leverage transcription technology to make educational materials more accessible to a broader swath of learners. These tools could also help educational institutions who have found themselves in legal trouble.

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