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Gale Launches New Accredited Online Adult High School Program to Public Libraries

eSchool News

. – September 11, 2021 – Gale , part of Cengage Group, today announced the launch of Gale Presents: Excel Adult High School , a new online accredited diploma completion program available to public libraries. With Gale Presents: Excel Adult High School , we are helping public libraries change lives.

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The Past Decade Forecasts a New Wave of Economic Opportunity in Education

Edsurge

Our higher education system formed around libraries. Our primary and secondary education systems formed around teachers imparting knowledge. From 2015 to 2019, entrepreneurs created 11 times the number of education unicorns compared to 2005 to 2014.

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Teacher Development Research Review: Keys to Educator Success

Digital Promise

Teaching quality has been defined as “instruction that enables a wide range of students to learn” ( Darling-Hammond, 2012 ), and it is the strongest school-related factor that can improve student learning and achievement ( Hanushek, 2011 ; Nye, Konstantopoulos, and Hedges, 2004 ; Rivkin, Hanushek, and Kain, 2005 ).

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Held back, but not helped

The Hechinger Report

Most students lost months or even years of school time after Katrina hit in 2005. Early this past December, the state released guidance to explain how to institute alternatives to retention in fourth grade, to comply with a resolution passed by the Board of Elementary and Secondary Education in October.

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Developing Systems for Effective, Equitable Education for All Students

edWeb.net

The president and founder of Bernstein Strategy Group, Jon Bernstein has been working on education, education technology and telecommunications issues since 1995 and running his own government relations firm since 2005. Jon received his JD from the Northwestern University School of Law and his BA from Colgate University.

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A crash course on trauma-informed teaching

The Cornerstone for Teachers

One of the best definitions I’ve heard of trauma comes from researchers Rice and Groves (2005): trauma is an exceptional experience in which powerful and dangerous events overwhelm a person’s capacity to cope. Teachers can experience a sort of secondary PTSD from dealing with students’ responses to trauma all day.

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Wahoo! The 2013 Global Education Conference - Still Time to Present + Plan to Attend!

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Lucy Gray and I, the founders and co-chairs of this massive, worldwide, and free event, may have gotten ourselves a little behind this year on GlobalEdCon planning (with STEMxCon in September, then the Reform Symposium , Library 2.01 Julene also works with Suumu Secondary School and Roots & Shoots in Tanzania.