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Alabama aims for huge pre-K enrollment boost by 2025, despite pandemic setback

The Hechinger Report

And though the pandemic has slowed down its plans a bit, the state has kept its commitment to invest enough money in the program to make it available to 70 percent of the state’s 4-year-olds by 2025. It’s something that would be beneficial to all 4-year-olds across the board – being able to access this type of quality learning,” Petty said.

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Chinese New Year- What Animal Am I?

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

(CNY) In the spirit of celebrating cultural diversity and love of world cultures, I went ahead and prepared this list of the 12 Chinese Zodiac animals that you can share with you students and help them learn more about Chinese New Year and its traditions. Chinese Zodiac Animals 1. If you were born in the Dragon year (e.g.,1928,

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EduCon 2023

Adam Watson Edtech Elixirs

SLA opened around 2006, with EduCon starting a few years later. I first heard about SLA/EduCon when reading Reinventing Project-Based Learning last fall, and then read about SLA again a few months later as one of four schools highlighted in Running with Robots. Education is about learning about your own identity, and being mindful.

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University of Chicago projected to be the first U.S. university to cost $100,000 a year

The Hechinger Report

But in less than a decade, by 2025, students like Badalamente could expect to pay more than $100,000 per year, based on projections by The Hechinger Report using annual college cost growth rates from 2008 to 2018. Future of Learning. Mississippi Learning. It’s already one of the most expensive colleges in the country.

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Revamped and rigorous, career and technical education is ready to be taken seriously

The Hechinger Report

Today, in the hope of getting young people excited about learning — and keeping them closer to home — the school is trying to cross-pollinate academic and technical instruction, which is how the chicken cordon bleu with sweet potatoes came about. Future of Learning. Mississippi Learning. Sign up for our newsletter.

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A year in the life of a small-town superintendent shows the federal bailout won’t be enough

The Hechinger Report

The school district welcomed all elementary students back for in-person learning in early December. Mike Griffith, senior researcher and policy analyst, Learning Policy Institute. She’d also learned in her first weeks on the job that the district had virtually no cash reserves to spend in an emergency.

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Colleges are using big data to track students in an effort to boost graduation rates, but it comes at a cost

The Hechinger Report

In meetings with his academic adviser during the second semester of his freshman year, Robinson said he learned that though his GPA was solid, the school’s computer algorithm saw trouble. For more stories about education, opportunity, and how people learn subscribe to the Educate podcast. By 2006, the school was majority minority.

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