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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. The legend has it that if you were born in the Rat Year (e.g.,

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ALAS Congratulates Alberto M. Carvalho on being named the Next Superintendent of the Los Angeles Unified School District

eSchool News

Carvalho has served as the Superintendent of Miami-Dade County Public Schools (M-DCPS), the fourth largest school district in the country, since 2008 and is recognized by his peers as a national voice for equity in education. “Mr. By the year 2026, Latino children will make up 30 percent of the school-age population.

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A Slow-Moving Storm: Why Demographic Changes Mean Tough Challenges for College Leaders

Edsurge

The financial crisis of 2008 was tough for the country, but the real impact will hit colleges in the year 2026. When the economy tanked in 2008, predictably, young people decided it wasn't the best time to have kids. Ultimately, it's all about student learning and how can we facilitate better student learning.

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After the Pandemic, Higher Education Can’t Afford to Go Back to ‘Normal’

Edsurge

As educators, we craft learning experiences based on the pedagogical foundations set by those who came before us. However, as our country continues to wage war on an invisible enemy known as COVID-19, colleges are being challenged to rethink their persistence and retention strategies, as well as their approaches to teaching and learning.

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College Uncovered, Season 2, Episode 4

The Hechinger Report

Kirk: You’re talking about 2026, when we’ll see the number of 18-year-olds drop precipitously because no one was having babies in 2008, during the Great Recession. Everyone stopped having babies in 2008. And it made working in this state while having to learn in that state pretty impossible.

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Minnesota has a persistent higher-ed gap: Are new efforts making a difference?

The Hechinger Report

He estimated that nearly one in three new jobs created through 2026 will require education beyond high school. Others have revamped remedial education, a major stumbling block for students who are forced to repeat subjects they should have learned in high school. Related: More Hispanics going to college: The bad news?

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The Best Way to Predict the Future is to Issue a Press Release

Hack Education

In 2008, ever hopeful, Gartner insisted that “This thing certainly isn’t dead and maybe it will yet blossom.” And admittedly I never learned about the Delphi method – what the New Media Consortium uses for this research project – until I became a scholar of education technology looking into the Horizon Report.

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