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Engineers Week Feb. 18-24

Ask a Tech Teacher

Job growth from 2010 to 2014 was in the double digits in several engineering occupations. Since 2007, the number of engineering grads nationwide has shot up 33%. Forbes published three good reasons: The U.S. has approximately 1.6 million engineering jobs that pay $42 per hour in median.

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Better Feedback for Deeper Learning

A Principal's Reflections

Goodwin & Miller (2012) provided this summary: In Marzano, Pickering, and Pollock's 2001 meta-analysis, McREL researchers found an effect size for feedback of 0.76, which translates roughly into a 28-percentile point difference in average achievement (Beesley & Apthorp, 2010; Dean, Pitler, Hubbell, & Stone, 2012). How am I going?

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Before you start bashing the Millennials…

Dangerously Irrelevant

Since 2010, the economy has added 11.6 Rural areas, meanwhile, still have fewer jobs than they did in 2007. A worker who made the same move in 2010 kept just 36 percent. This is what it feels like to be young now. million jobs—and 11.5 million of them have gone to workers with at least some college education.

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How the last recession affected higher education. Will history repeat?

The Hechinger Report

million undergraduate students in the fall of 2007 to a peak of 18.1 million students in the fall of 2010. Legislation raised the amounts that students could borrow in 2007 and again in 2008. Completion rates declined for students who enrolled in college during 2008, 2009 and 2010. million, or nearly 16 percent, from 15.6

Education 115
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U.S. K-12 Educational Technology Policy: Historical Notes on the Federal Role

Doug Levin

This change remained in appropriations language from FY 2007 through FY 2011. FY 2007 $273,100,000 (President Bush’s request: $0). FY 2010 $100,000,000. Rationale for Obama administration FY 2010 program funding reduction : “ The proposed reduction of $169.9 ”) Richard Culatta, the director of the U.S.

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30 Effective Classroom Attention Getters with Examples

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

2010) linked boredom to attentional problems in class, while Maroldo (1986) noted its association with lower GPAs and a decreased motivation to learn. 2010; Ziv, 1988). Furthermore, Pekrun et al. This paints a clear picture: boredom is a multifaceted issue impacting various aspects of a student’s academic journey. Daniels, L.

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On paper, teens are thriving. In reality, they’re not

The Hechinger Report

Somewhere in the 2010-12 time frame, that abruptly changed. Researchers have pointed to the introduction of smartphones — the iPhone was introduced in 2007 — and the rise of social media as the culprit. As other measures improved, youth also reported feeling less anxiety and depressive symptoms. What happened then?