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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

This is in addition to the drop of more than 90,000 (42 percent) licensed family child care homes between 2005 and 2017. The post OPINION: After years of silent sacrifices and unseen struggles, Black women are still holding up the child care industry appeared first on The Hechinger Report. Sign up for Hechinger’s newsletter.

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Augmented Reality Lessons You Can Use Now

The CoolCatTeacher

Additionally, Mitch co-founded Academic Business Advisors in 2005, to help organizations reach teachers and students in the US. Mitch served on the Board of the Ed-Tech Industry Network (ETIN) of the SIIA from 2012-2019, was cochair from 2015-2016, and was the chair in 2019. Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality in the Classroom.

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Engaging Parents & Families in Language Learning: Lessons Learned the DCPS Way

Battelle for Kids

The federal government recognized the critical need for world language in the 2005 Call to Action for National Foreign Language Capabilities , a historic gathering of minds from across government, industry, language associations, and academia that resulted in a shared vision for the need and imperative of world language instruction.

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A Sideways Look at the Future of Higher Education

Edsurge

Digital tech has changed other knowledge industries much faster than higher ed, but seismic shifts are still coming to colleges. Once upon a time, the music industry meant gramophones, Victrolas and record players, and large companies called labels controlled what got recorded, the talent that recorded it and the sale of the recordings.

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­­A wave of child care center closures is coming as funding dries up

The Hechinger Report

Then, in 2021, the American Rescue Plan Act was signed into law and $39 billion was sent to states to help stabilize the child care industry. Nationwide, ARPA funds helped steady a rocky industry that has historically been marked by poverty-level wages for educators and high staff turnover. That’s a pretty dire situation to be in.”

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What You Can Do to Bring Emotional Intelligence Lessons into the Classroom

Waterford

Industrial and Organizational Psychology, June 2010, 3(2), pp. 2005, Child Development, 76(5), pp. Cognition & Emotion, May 2005, 19(3), 313-332. Emotional Intelligence: Implications for Personal, Social, Academic, and Workplace Success. Social and Personality Psychology Compass, January 2011, 5(1), pp. Cherniss, C.

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PROOF POINTS: Most manufacturing certificate holders don’t get jobs in manufacturing

The Hechinger Report

More than 100,000 adults earned earned entry-level manufacturing certifications at community and technical colleges between 2005 and 2018, but only 40 percent worked in manufacturing afterward. Some are run by industry, others by non-accredited schools. Credit: Oliver Parini for The Hechinger Report.

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