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How to Assess with Respect with Starr Sackstein

The CoolCatTeacher

Today’s guest, Starr Sackstein, author of Assessing with Respect: Everyday Practices That Meet Students’ Social and Emotional Needs , shares an overview of what is needed so that every student feels respected even as they are given the necessary feedback to improve and level up their learning.

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COVID-19 Has Widened the Skills Gap. But It Also Presents an Opportunity to Close It.

Edsurge

employees working from home and interacting with colleagues and customers remotely at the peak of the pandemic, many companies began to invest in digital transformation initiatives to address gaps in cloud adoption and cybersecurity. And it appears that investing in last-mile training has a secondary benefit: higher retention.

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Many certificate programs don’t pay off, but colleges want to keep offering them anyway

The Hechinger Report

Related: Trucking companies train you on the job. There’s something morally defunct about the idea that we wouldn’t protect students across all backgrounds from attending programs that can’t actually meet the promises that they make for the majority of their students,” he said. The wage is secondary. Just don’t try to quit.

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Teachers of the world, unite. You have nothing to lose but your pain!

The Hechinger Report

The Title I program identifies what fiscal resources schools need, but Congress hasn’t allocated enough resources to meet those needs. The movement manifests itself in corporate tax breaks, which don’t require companies to contribute their fair share to state taxes, a significant part of districts’ budgets.

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DEBT WITHOUT DEGREE: The human cost of college debt that becomes “purgatory”

The Hechinger Report

By 2025, more than 60 percent of Georgia jobs will require some kind of post-secondary education, and now only 45 percent of the state’s young adults meet that criterion. In 2011, Georgia launched an effort to tackle this issue called Complete College Georgia. Sign up for our Higher Education newsletter.

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

The Hechinger Report

Nellie Mae passed on the money to the Portland-based Great Schools Partnership, which used it to coordinate The New England Secondary School Consortium, a coalition advocating for proficiency-based diplomas, among other things. In its application for its 2011 grant, Portland pledged to move the entire district to a proficiency-based diploma.

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Why Colleges Already Face Race-Related Challenges In Serving Future Students

MindShift

A 2011 report by CARE found that up to two-third of Southeast Asians and Pacific Islanders in the United States don’t have any form of post-secondary education and that for the ones who do enter college, half drop out. Florida State University has a team that meets weekly to review data. ” Copyright 2017 NPR.