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5 Ways to Build Reading Stamina in Adolescent Students

The CoolCatTeacher

Furthermore, in September 2020, UNICEF reported that 1 billion children worldwide aren't learning at all. ” The Nation’s Report Card. She has published articles in the Wisconsin English Journal and has spoken at state and national conferences on aspects of secondary literacy. October 31, 2011. June 16, 2011.

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Predictions of Print Textbooks’ Death Remain Greatly Exaggerated

Edsurge

But now I can report that these tools have been adopted in thousands of U.S. From 2011 to 2014, U.S. higher education courseware in 2015, down from 50 percent the year before, according to a 2018 report from Macquarie, an investment bank and financial services company. classrooms from kindergarten through high school.”

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Market for Social-Emotional Learning Underdeveloped, Report Says

Marketplace K-12

Ed tech can help students develop critical social and emotional skills and character traits, but the market for such tools is currently underdeveloped, according to a new report from the World Economic Forum and the Boston Consulting Group. to encourage turn-taking), encouraging students to adopt different perspectives (e.g.,

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Edtech Incubators are Fading. Here’s What Will Replace Them.

Edsurge

Their hope is that these programs will help pave the way toward the kind of supportive environment that education technology companies need to survive. Many of the most eager entrepreneurs were first timers—often very young people with little experience in building companies or even in teaching—but driven by a passion for education.

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

The Hechinger Report

Credit: AJ Mast for The Hechinger Report. Related: Trucking companies train you on the job. Credit: Yunuen Bonaparte for The Hechinger Report. The wage is secondary. The university’s website advertises that a legal secretary can make $29,534 to $48,910. Just don’t try to quit. There’s a moral question here,” he said.

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

The Hechinger Report

were underfunded by $580 billion in federal dollars alone — money that was specifically targeted to support 30 million of our most vulnerable students,” says a new report published by the education advocacy nonprofit, the Alliance to Reclaim Our Schools. “Between 2005 and 2017, public schools in the U.S.

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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. Photo: Meredith Kolodner/The Hechinger Report. In 2011, Georgia launched an effort to tackle this issue called Complete College Georgia.

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