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What happens when college students discuss lab work in Spanish, philosophy in Chinese or opera in Italian?

The Hechinger Report

Enrollments are down 15 percent since 2009 — even though more and more students want global experiences, such as international internships and study abroad programs, and a chance to practice languages they do speak. Language educators lament that courses in STEM are celebrated for teaching real-world skills, but language classes are not. “It

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The Asian Money Fueling US Edtech Investments

Edsurge

In the Minerva Project, TAL is much more interested in the technology that allows the company to run online, asynchronous seminars (dubbed “ The Active Learning Forum ”) than launching new universities. Sinovation Ventures , a venture firm founded in 2009 by Google’s former chief in China. edtech startups.

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Week of February 27, 2011 - Live, Interactive, and Free Webinars in Elluminate

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

We’ll focus on apps that lend themselves to STEM as well as apps to facilitate integration across disciplines. EPA WaterSense and WasteWater Education will present a free hour seminar to introduce home school, elementary and high school teachers to the curriculum materials available from USEPA to promote March 14-20, 2011 "Fix A Leak Week!"

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We know how to help young kids cope with the trauma of the last year — but will we do it?

The Hechinger Report

Supalla, who opened the first of her Discovery Kidzone Learning Centers in 2009, noticed that children were having more emotional challenges and that their social skills were declining. Ordinarily, we think of trauma as stemming from a defined event—the emotional shock waves you might experience from a single act of violence, for example.

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