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Students Go Behind the Scenes at the CMA Awards to Discover the Power of STEAM in a New Virtual Field Trip from Discovery Education and the Country Music Association 

eSchool News

We also know that students love to explore their career interests through ‘real life’ examples. Inspired by the global media company Discovery, Inc., “We know educators are always looking for fun and relatable ways to connect what they teach to the real world.

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As jobs grow hard to fill, businesses join the drive to push rural residents toward college

The Hechinger Report

It’s that fewer than one in five of adults in the entire surrounding Humphreys County have at least an associate degree, according to census data analyzed by the nonprofit advocacy organization Complete Tennessee. With worker shortages hitting industries nationwide, their companies — and many states’ economies — depend on it. “No

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The Business of 'Ed-Tech Trends'

Hack Education

Another notable area of growth: the size of the report itself, which has expanded from 66 slides in 2011 to 355 this year , with the number of slides almost doubling in the last year alone. “Why are there 72 slides about gaming, from a company invested in EA, Zynga, Mobcrush, and Magic Leap?” ” he asks.

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More high school grads than ever are going to college, but 1 in 5 will quit

The Hechinger Report

percentage points since 2011, the federal data show. And at private for-profit colleges and universities, more than 44 percent of students leave before finishing, a figure that is eight-tenths of a percentage points worse than it was in 2011. or a solid B, according to the education consulting company Civitas Learning.

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Open, Value-Added Services, Interaction, and Learning

Iterating Toward Openness

Examples of Value-Added Services in the Context of Open. Both the wider internet and the narrower education space are filled with companies and organizations that provide value-added services around openly licensed software and content. According to the American Association of University Professors , in Fall 2011 41.5%

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With Unfilled Jobs, Businesses Push Rural Residents Toward College

MindShift

It’s that fewer than one in five adults in the entire surrounding Humphreys County have at least an associate degree, according to census data analyzed by the nonprofit advocacy organization Complete Tennessee. With worker shortages hitting industries nationwide, their companies — and many states’ economies — depend on it.

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Inside Maine’s disastrous roll out of proficiency-based learning

The Hechinger Report

To build public support for the changes, the foundation also gave smaller grants to youth and immigrant advocacy groups in the districts. In its application for its 2011 grant, Portland pledged to move the entire district to a proficiency-based diploma. So far, none of the academies are in Maine.

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