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It’s Time To Unlearn & Relearn Learning

EdNews Daily

Our innate capacity to learn, to think, to create, and adapt endowed us with the evolutionary advantages necessary to become one of the most successful organisms on the planet. If you’re a trainer, you fight this process every time you engage a new hire, every time you learn a skill yourself, and every time you teach your child something new.

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TEACHER VOICE: College students who lack basic skills can learn to love reading and writing

The Hechinger Report

percent literacy rate , the seventh-lowest among the 50 states, and one of the highest school dropout rates. In 2021, New Mexico had the fourth-lowest per capita income ; many of my students came from low-income families where they were encouraged to earn and not to learn. Since 2007, with his spouse, Leilani Darling, J.D.,

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OPINION: The pandemic exposes just how much support college students need

The Hechinger Report

Current and prospective students both are grappling with enrollment and persistence decisions, while facing an indefinite future of face-to-face, online and hybrid learning experiences. college students with lifetime diagnoses of mental health conditions in 2017 was 36 percent, compared with 22 percent in 2007.

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Former Superintendent of the Year Mark Edwards to Join Discovery Education

Marketplace K-12

school district since 2007, will be the senior vice president of digital learning for the Silver Spring, Md.-based who have visited the town to learn from its community of educators. See also: Superintendent of the Year Emphasized Tech, Reduced Dropouts. Edwards, who has been superintendent of the Mooresville, N.C.,

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Proficiency and NAEP scores: Let’s stop talking about trivial distinctions and focus on ending inequality instead

The Hechinger Report

In fact, a 2007 study revealed that 50 percent of the students judged to be merely “basic” in mathematics completed a four-year degree. Many non-proficient students are in fact fully prepared for college work. We also know three things: the U.S.

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Held back, but not helped

The Hechinger Report

Future of Learning. Mississippi Learning. Leave this field empty if you're human: Retentions in Louisiana peaked a few years after Katrina and have fallen steadily since; nearly 9 percent of the state’s students were held back in 2007, only 5 percent were retained in 2011. Sign up for our newsletter. Choose as many as you like.

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What if we hired for skills, not degrees?

The Hechinger Report

On a laptop in the nearly empty office, he worked on code for a webpage he was developing for his employer, the learning materials company Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. They cited research showing that the proportion of job listings requiring a four-year degree increased by more than 10 percentage points from 2007 to 2010. .

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