MIND Research Institute

DECEMBER 1, 2020

The education system is undergoing a huge shift in daily structures and processes as a result of the pandemic. Students and educators have been affected by the huge changes to daily life, including distancing from friends and wider support groups, and family members losing jobs or income. Each Skill Improves Other SEL Skills.

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eSchool News

JULY 17, 2017

If you have been to an educational technology conference in the last 5 years, you have seen more and more emphasis placed on coding and robotics with robots making an appearance in conference sessions, at after hour gatherings, and certainly in the vendor hall. Data source: US Bureau of Labor Statistics Employment Projections 2008-2018.

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Neo LMS

MARCH 30, 2017

Naturally, the Internet is far and away the richest and most radical change from the days I was a student, and education will, frankly, never be the same again. billion by 2025, while the education sector will attract 15 million users. Google’s Expeditions program is a Cardboard extension specifically oriented towards educators.

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MIND Research Institute

DECEMBER 1, 2020

The education system is undergoing a huge shift in daily structures and processes as a result of the pandemic. Students and educators have been affected by the huge changes to daily life, including distancing from friends and wider support groups, and family members losing jobs or income. Each Skill Improves Other SEL Skills.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

The network links educators across disciplines who are interested in using games and other forms of interactive teaching to improve student success. BMCC associate professors of English Joe Bisz and Carlos Fernandez stimulated the formation of CGN when they were awarded a 2007/08 CUNY faculty development grant to study how.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Danilo Moreta, a Cornell University graduate student studying corn breeding, stood wearing jeans and a black button-down shirt as undergraduate students entered room 336 in the Plant Science Building for a Tuesday night section of PLSCI 4300, Applications in Molecular Diagnostics. Sign up for our Higher Education newsletter.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 27, 2019

Measuring achievement gaps between rich and poor might seem like a straightforward exercise for education experts. But despite this apparent simplicity, two prominent education researchers have arrived at different answers. Higher Education. Reardon is a professor at the Graduate School of Education. Weekly Update.

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Learning with 'e's

MARCH 1, 2016

Previous posts in this series tracked the development of educational technology over 40 years. I first started working in the field of educational technology in January 1976, at a time when technology was used more for teaching than it was for learning. 2006 was also the year Twitter was launched.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 3, 2017

Or maybe it stemmed from the fact that anyone could get the gist of the teaching idea in the time it takes to rattle off a sound bite. By 2008 it had its own conference, FlipCon (which closed in 2016). Think of flipped as the operating system of education. Think of flipped as the operating system of education.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 22, 2016

American higher education, particularly in the liberal arts, is currently on the edge of a precipice. Many students are turning to STEM and other vocational fields in hopes of better job prospects. Though that doesn’t mean entrepreneurship education doesn’t face some pitfalls. It’s translational learning.”

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 6, 2019

My parents always stressed how powerful an education is and how it is the key to success,” Keenan said. For more stories about education, opportunity, and how people learn subscribe to the Educate podcast. In higher education, colleges are using analytics to keep students enrolled and continue collecting tuition dollars.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 5, 2022

And a slightly higher percentage of nonwhite teachers than white ones—45 percent vs. 42 percent—said that they were considering leaving their position last school year, researchers at the University of Arkansas’ College of Education & Health Professions found.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 19, 2023

She studies how burdensome paperwork and processes often prevent poor people from accessing health benefits. But she should act fast, the social worker urged, or the department might have to take action against her for “educational neglect.” The Associated Press education team receives support from the Carnegie Corporation of New York.

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edWeb.net

APRIL 5, 2022

The popularity of webinars has resulted in greater expertise in hosting engaging presentations that reach a larger audience of educators at all levels and in all roles. Rita Ferrandino has built an international reputation as one of the most effective strategists and coalition builders in the education entrepreneurship community.

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Graphite Blog

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Educator resources are available so the content can quickly and easily be presented in class. Common Sense Education (grades K-12) Common Sense Education has long been a big name in digital citizenship. However, for those of you who are not aware of the scope of these resources, I wanted to include them.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 11, 2018

Through their efforts, along with those of other outside arts organizations, they are introducing theater to more and younger participants, at an age when education experts say children are especially poised to benefit from it. Related: Can testing save arts education? Higher Education. percent of all roles, though Asians are 5.6

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

A shortage of trained teachers in Oregon is leaving school districts short-handed, so replacements without educational backgrounds are being recruited from other professions to fill the gap. He said he was asked if he was interested in becoming an educator. “I had to study for it,” Durfey said of the science test.

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MindShift

JANUARY 20, 2017

We also learned—and have experienced in our careers as mathematics educators and researchers—that spatial reasoning is a curiously unacknowledged and neglected area of the curriculum. Below we offer our Top Five reasons why, as educators, we should care about spatial thinking when we plan, observe, and assess mathematics in our classrooms.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

Students study the human body on skeletons, using clay to make organs. Barbara Means, an educational psychologist at SRI International, a California-based research institute, says that while there is no hard data on the number of these schools, a reasonable estimate would be somewhere between 250 and 500. “For NEW LONDON, Conn.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 3, 2018

Higher Education. A 2012 study published by the National Bureau of Economic Research found that most high-achieving low-income students don’t apply to any competitive colleges. There’s an education happening outside the classroom with people our kids otherwise wouldn’t come into contact with.” . Sign up for our newsletter.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 17, 2017

In 2008, a few years after Hurricane Katrina, school officials in Louisiana asked aspiring charter-school leader Andrew Shahan to consider taking over the failing Dr. Charles Drew Elementary School in New Orleans’ Upper 9th Ward. “I Department of Education officials estimated that 82 percent of schools would fall short.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 11, 2018

Kate Allender, of Tesla STEM High School, has designed a course integrating AP Psychology with a hands-on study of forensics. The class combines the academic rigor of AP Psychology with hands-on experience in the field of forensics, the latter as a state-approved career and technical education (CTE) course. REDMOND, Wash. —

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Waterford

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

Did you know that music lessons can help students excel in STEM ? This guide will walk you through what you need to know about the importance and benefits of art in education. Then, we’ll cover what you can do to make art education part of your curriculum and a few educational art activities for young learners.

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MindShift

JUNE 5, 2018

When a huge flood devastated Cedar Rapids, Iowa, in 2008 the community was faced with a host of problems more commonly seen in big cities, like homelessness. Over the next 10 years it grew into Iowa BIG, an alternative education offering that now has two sites, 240 students, eight teachers and a huge network of community partners.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 25, 2016

This contributes to falling enrollment in states already struggling with some of the nation’s lowest percentages of residents with college educations. It’s “a vicious circle,” said Dave Spence, president of the Atlanta-based Southern Regional Education Board, or SREB. Dave Spence, president, Southern Regional Education Board.

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Edsurge

APRIL 5, 2019

But schools still need operating capital to provide the educational programming in the first place. Schools can pool their ISAs by program, whether that’s STEM or humanities majors, or a cybersecurity program at a coding bootcamp. Wall Street thinks it has found a solution in an online marketplace for ISAs, called Edly.

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Edsurge

APRIL 28, 2017

A popular narrative in the employment market today is that a "skills gap" exists between the abilities employers seek in candidates and the capabilities that new college graduates gain through postsecondary education. One study even found that 45 percent of new graduates are in positions that don’t require a degree.

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Educator Innovator

JANUARY 13, 2016

But after a tobacco settlement left the state with additional education funding in 2008, the Springfield City School District (SCSD) made some needed infrastructure improvements. Fish was among many educators who dreamed of repurposing the school in a way that retained its educational mission. Photo/ Scott Marshall, SCSD.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 10, 2017

The federal government, in concert with the states and institutions, could do more to increase transparency and enhance market account- ability in higher education. Related: Universities and colleges struggle to stem big drops in enrollment. Sign up for our Higher Education newsletter.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 27, 2016

Tianna’s social studies project aimed to refute the “dominant narrative” that racism is largely dead in the United States. But the approach also appeals to the growing number of policymakers and educators who have doubts about the validity of standardized tests. “I didn’t think it would make a very strong paper.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 1, 2018

T his story about foster care and higher education was produced as part of a series, “Twice Abandoned: How schools and child-welfare systems fail kids in foster care,” reported by HuffPost and The Hechinger Report , a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education. KALAMAZOO, Mich.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 29, 2019

The 20-minute walk to school cut into time for studying and made it harder to get to know all the new faces. For the school to continue to fulfill its mission as an engine of upward mobility for the Bayou Region, Clune said, state lawmakers must drastically change how they fund higher education. “I Higher Education.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 26, 2017

Antioch is, in fact, doing surprisingly well just by still being open, considering it was revived by these alumni after being shut down in 2008 under a previous board of trustees that had diverted many of its assets into a chain of satellite graduate campuses. Related: Universities and colleges struggle to stem big drops in enrollment.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 24, 2017

Policymakers have been pushing certificates as a way of getting closer to a long-sought goal of boosting the proportion of the population that has earned some kind of educational credential after high school. Department of Education. Anthony Carnevale, director of the Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

universities and coding schools use ISAs, and, in December, the Department of Education said it would experiment with offering them. At Purdue, for example, students studying for degrees that usually lead to low-paying fields are saddled with the most burdensome repayment terms. Now, more than five dozen U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 17, 2018

It’s where districts and schools decide to spend their money,” Worth, a veteran educator who has also taught in Greene County’s traditional public schools, explained. Department of Education. Board of Education decision. Some schools spend their money on overhead. We spend it on students.”.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 27, 2018

As Louisiana struggles to balance its budget in face of a nearly $1 billion shortfall, lawmakers face a stark choice: Shrink a program that once made the state a national model in education, or end it entirely. A college education for everyone’. Higher Education. Some said their parents couldn’t afford tuition. Weekly Update.

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