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The 2019 Global Education Conference - Full List of 130 Sessions and 10 Keynotes!

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

The ninth annual Global Education Conference starts this coming Monday! The conference is being held Monday, November 18 - Wednesday, November 20, 2019 (November 21 in some time zones). The conference is being held Monday, November 18 - Wednesday, November 20, 2019 (November 21 in some time zones). LOTS of information below!

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PROOF POINTS: Stanford’s Jo Boaler talks about her new book ‘MATH-ish’ and takes on her critics

The Hechinger Report

Boaler first drew fire from critics in 2005, when she presented new research claiming that students at a low-income school who were behind grade level had outperformed students at higher achieving schools when they were taught in classrooms that combined students of different math achievement levels. That tells us something.”

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Undergrad majors: the humanities seriously down, STEM slowly rising

Bryan Alexander

from 2012 to 2014, falling to the smallest number of degrees conferred since 2003” That’s in absolute numbers. ” [emphases added] “The field’s share shrank 19% from 2005 to 2014…” Let’s break down the fields to see how individual disciplines fare. of all such degrees.

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Carnegie Learning Bets Big on Coding With Acquisition of Globaloria

Edsurge

He first noticed Globaloria about nine months ago, and first met Idit Harel at the ASU+GSV conference this past May. It’s not like 2005 or 2010, when many were skeptics.” “I’ve always had an interesting in finding a coding curriculum for Carnegie Learning,” Malkin said in an interview with EdSurge.

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Discovery Education Appoints Scott Kinney as Chief Executive Officer and Kelli Campbell as President

eSchool News

Following stints as Assistant Director of Curriculum and Instruction and Director of Educational Technologies at Pennsylvania’s Carbon Lehigh Intermediate Unit #21 , Kinney joined Discovery Education in 2005. Discovery Education currently serves approximately 4.5

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Newark Board of Ed, Prudential Financial, and Discovery Education Launch Partnership Supporting Academic Achievement

eSchool News

A global community of education professionals, the Discovery Education Community connects members across school systems and around the world through social media, virtual conferences, and in-person events, fostering valuable networking, idea sharing, and inspiration. Real world success starts with a strong education.”

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The Connected Learning Summit 2018: Thoughts on Making

Educator Innovator

Conference keynote speaker and educator extraordinaire Michelle King described her energetic attempts to assemble solar panels from scratch. The consolidation of these like-minded communities is timely, given the breadth and confluence of interests and practices these projects have championed over the last 13 years.