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Live Interview Wed., Jan. 19 - Yong Zhao on Education, China, and Tiger Moms

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Date : Wednesday, January 19th, 2011 Time : 5pm Pacific / 8pm Eastern / 1am GMT (next day-- international times here ) Duration : 1 hour Location : In Elluminate. His most recent books are Catching Up or Leading the Way: American Education in the Age of Globalization and the Handbook of Asian Education. Log in at [link].

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May 31 - Interview with James Bosco on Digital Media and Participatory Learning

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

For the past 3 years CoSN has been involved in a project which is called " Participatory Learning in Schools: Leadership and Policy." Date : Tuesday, May 31st, 2011 Time : 5pm Pacific / 8pm Eastern / 12am GMT (next day-- international times here ) Duration : 1 hour Location : In Elluminate. psid=2011-05-31.1720.M.9E9FE58134BE68C3B413F24B3586CF.vcr&sid=2008350.

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The Hechinger Report

These arrests can have dire consequences, suggests a 2011 report by the Justice Policy Institute. While black students represented 16 percent of the nation’s public school population in the 2011-12 school year, they made up 31 percent of students subjected to school-related arrests, according to a 2014 report by the U.S.

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Students are enlisted to help flailing classmates deal with money matters

The Hechinger Report

And a handbook on financial literacy for community college students published by the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston also highlighted the model. based policy and youth-advocacy organization. percent in 2011, when the financial ambassadors began their work, to 14.9 Many students seem to like it.

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