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Looking Back At 2010 And Looking Forward To 2011.

The Web20Classroom

So here is my reflections on 2010 and my predictions for 2011. I wrote a post on December 28, 2009 where I talked about tools that I thought would have a break out year. Think about it in a lower elementary classroom. So education related companies are going to have to be innovative in the apps they create for these devices.

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COLUMN: There’s a lot of new federal money for greening K-12 education. This is how schools could use it

The Hechinger Report

They are pushing for a 90 percent reduction in greenhouse gas emissions from 2010 levels by 2050. For-profit companies will actually do the work. An energy service company, or ESCO, can start with an initial building energy audit, often for free, which then can become the basis of your federal grant application.

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How a Chinatown school is trying to bring more diversity to theater

The Hechinger Report

population and more than 13 percent of New York City’s population, per the 2010 census. Around 2009, Lee learned about the Junior Theater Festival (JTF) in Atlanta, where students from across the country gather for three days to compete, take workshops and nerd out over musical theater. percent of all roles, though Asians are 5.6

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In Puerto Rico, the odds are against high school grads who want to go to college

The Hechinger Report

The Puerto Rican rate is from 2009-2010, the latest available in a territory whose government produces few up-to-date statistics, and which federal counts often don’t include; experts say it’s likely only gotten lower since then. It’s also true, she said, that, “If you don’t have resources for the future, the companies can’t stay.”.

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Elevating the Education Reform Dialog, Live on Monday

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

The school was recognized by Ladies Home Journal as one of the Ten Most Amazing Schools in the US, has been recognized as an Apple Distinguished School in 2009 and 2010 and has been written about in many publications including Edutopia Magazine, EdWeek and the Philadelphia Inquirer. movement nationally and internationally.

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Set to stun

The Hechinger Report

The company does not have an exact count of how many Tasers are carried by school resource officers “because you’re talking thousands, and at some point you can’t even keep track of it,” said Steven Tuttle, the vice president of strategic communications. The federal government cut funding to this survey after 2010.

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How Has Google Affected The Way Students Learn?

MindShift

Whenever new technology emerges — including newspapers and television — discussions about how it will threaten our brainpower always crops up, Harvard psychology professor Steven Pinker wrote in a 2010 op-ed in The New York Times. When we know that we can access this information whenever we want, we are not motivated to remember it.

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