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Who will Teach the Children?

EdNews Daily

Research indicates that while about 18 percent of students fail to graduate from high school, close to 50 percent of teachers leave within five years, including 17 percent of first-year teachers (as described in a Washington Post article and by the National Education Association and the National Center for Education Statistics).

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It’s Time To Unlearn & Relearn Learning

EdNews Daily

This article was originally written and published by Rich Carr of Carr Knowledge. University of California, California high school dropouts cost state $46.4 The MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 2008), pp. Pear Press, San Francisco, 2008). You can read more at Brain-centric Design. billion annually. UC Santa Barbara. Stevens, T.

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Redesigning, Reimagining, and Rethinking American Education

edWeb.net

He spends much of his time providing leadership and guidance to the National Dropout Prevention Center and the Career and Technical Education Technical Assistance Center, which are part of the Successful Practices Network. He is also the author of numerous books about learning and education, textbooks, research reports, and journal articles.

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A Thinking Person’s Guide to EdTech News (2017 Week 9 Edition)

Doug Levin

The article puts a positive spin on it, but this is not ok. Tagged on: March 2, 2017 AERA Announces Most Read Education Research Articles of 2016 | AERA → AERA Open dominates the list of most read education research articles in 2016. Should it be revisited?

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Education's Online Futures

Hack Education

Clayton Christensen and Michael Horn, for example, predicted in their 2008 book Disrupting Class that by 2019 half of all high school classes would be taught via the Internet. For its part, Udacity has fully rebranded itself as a high-tech job training company, a topic I’ll cover in more detail in a forthcoming article in this series.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

The suit against the for-profit chain and its American InterContinental University was originally filed in 2008.” Meanwhile on Campus… Via ProPublica : “‘Alternative’ Education: Using Charter Schools to Hide Dropouts and Game the System.” Upgrades and Downgrades. ” Wheee.