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With competition up, enrollment down, colleges are spending billions on marketing and advertising

The Hechinger Report

And that was before the shutdowns and confusion of the Covid-19 pandemic, which other surveys show has further damaged public confidence. A SimpsonScarborough survey, however, found that institutions spend between $429 and $623 per enrolled student , per year, on marketing. Credit: Noah Willman for The Hechinger Report.

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Middle school science teachers often have shaky scientific knowledge

The Hechinger Report

He’s held a teaching credential in the state since 2006, based on passing the state’s biological sciences and geosciences teaching exams, state records show. Throughout the pandemic, the American public has struggled to be scientifically literate enough to separate well-grounded scientific findings from social media-driven fiction.

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The Scientific Debate Over Teens, Screens And Mental Health

MindShift

The data sets she works with — essentially large surveys — don’t allow for that. Given that all teens use media, I asked Twenge, why would the worsening trend in mental health be more pronounced in girls than in boys? “Social media invites comparison,” Twenge says. “It’s not in real time.

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What Kids Need for Optimal Health and School Engagement

MindShift

Research shows that including a variety of stakeholders—from parents to students to school teachers and staff—in the design and implementation of a school change is critical to its success (Mitra&Gross, 2009; Osberg, Pope, &Galloway, 2006; Rice, 2011).Will For tweens and teens it can also include some time spent on social media.

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How DJ Khaled, King of Snapchat, is Helping to Make Education Dreams Come True

EdNews Daily

In an October survey of high school seniors, Get Schooled found that while 90% of seniors plan to attend college after high school, one in five has never actually visited a college campus. In 2006, he launched innovative label deals and started We The Best Music Group.

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Cultivating Cosmopolitanism in a World of Echo Chambers

Educator Innovator

In other words, on social media, we often “flock together” or connect with like-minded individuals and those who are similar to us in other important ways. ” On a global scale, our patterns of flocking together mean that social media are typically “nationalist echo chambers,” says Zuckerman.

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36 Edtech Tools I’m Using Right Now in My Classroom and Life

The CoolCatTeacher

Wikispaces is also the backbone of my global collaborative projects since 2006, with MAD about Mattering as the most recent example. Google Forms (Quick Surveys). Google Forms – We are surveying our Project Managers and Assistant project managers for MAD about Mattering using Google Forms right now.

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