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Most Americans say U.S. STEM education is middling, new poll finds

The Hechinger Report

One of the biggest education priorities of recent years has been readying more young people for the job-friendly fields of science, technology, engineering and math (STEM). In 2006, President Bush announced the “American Competitiveness Initiative” to strengthen science-and-tech education in the name of advancing innovation.

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Will Hybrid Teaching Stick Around as the Pandemic Fades?

Edsurge

Some data seems to back that up: A survey earlier this year from Tyton Partners found that nearly seven out of 10 students said they preferred courses with at least some virtual component, while more than half of faculty members said they preferred face-to-face teaching. I do not believe that.”

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9 Ideas for Ending the School Year Well

The CoolCatTeacher

She has taught several grades over her 14-year career including K-3 literacy special, first grade, second grade, kindergarten, and technology special. For more on this, read my 2006 Post About How a Disney Cruise changed my views on education.) Alana Stanton is a kindergarten teacher at Mulberry Elementary in Gwinnett County, Georgia.

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A Skilled Services Career Might Be The Best Economic Option For Many Students

EdNews Daily

Then, in 2006, lawmakers revised the act, choosing instead to call it the Carl D. While career and technical education (CTE) still offers woodshop, culinary arts, and automotive technology, students can also take courses in computer programming, architectural drafting, mechatronics engineering, and even entrepreneurship.

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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. Almost a quarter have neither a science degree nor full certification to teach science, according to a 2017-18 survey by the U.S. Data show many of the 69,000 U.S.

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SEL: A Leadership Roundtable

techlearning

Reeves, 2006) Being able to identify the “go-to” or most trusted person in a network to leverage their relationships with others to effect change is more likely to result in change than working from the superintendent down, although you need both approaches. We take a team approach, but our mindfulness initiative stems from the top.

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How one city has been tackling the swelling scourge of brain drain

The Hechinger Report

The Chill Room at GSoft, a technology firm in Montreal that features over-the-top amenities to recruit and keep employees at a time of intense competition for talent. workers, a Gallup survey found. It’s to universities and colleges that many states have mostly turned to stem this flow. Photo: Alex Tran for The Hechinger Report.