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School Cellphone Use Contracts Can Reduce Bullying

EdNews Daily

The Washington Post reported (July 16, 2019) that a report filed by the National Center for Education Statistics, that online bullying and texting is the rise among middle and high school students. Smartphones trail at 45% (up from 39% in 2012). Part of the educational process is the teaching of responsibility. About the Author.

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How higher education lost its shine

The Hechinger Report

“He starts telling me, ‘I don’t want to do this,’ ” one adviser, Portia Cook, was recounting to her colleagues from the state program, called Advise TN, about a student at the top of his class who had changed his mind about continuing his education. “ ‘You’re talking about four more years of school? They don’t think that anymore.”.

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HE Challenges: Fast changing digital teaching methods

Neo LMS

In the last on our series about the challenges in higher education, we will examine how universities and colleges are managing the fast pace of change in teaching methods and curricula. According to UNESCO, global demand for higher education is expected to grow from 100 million students currently to 250+ million by 2025.

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More students are dropping out of college during Covid — and it could get worse

The Hechinger Report

Thousands of other students around the country are leaving college — some because of mental health issues, others for financial or family reasons – and educators worry that many have left for good. The dropout spike was even more startling for community college students like Izzy, an increase of about 3.5 Students just are not OK.

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The hottest posts that everybody's reading

The Innovative Educator

Here’s the roundup of what''s been popular on The Innovative Educator blog this week. Dec 24, 2012, 2 comments 2842 Teacher dropouts Dec 23, 2012, 10 comments 2091 9 Ways to Assess without Standardized Tests Apr 22, 2012, 15 comments 1987 Ed Tech Speak Dec 26, 2012 1549 Answers to 8 hard questions abt ed in American.

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The Des Moines Register’s editorial on student retention is lazy and irresponsible

Dangerously Irrelevant

John Hattie, Professor of Education at the University of Auckland, spent 15 years synthesizing the vast body of peer-reviewed, meta-analytical research pertaining to student achievement. Hattie went on to state: It would be difficult to find another educational practice on which the evidence is so unequivocally negative. (p.

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College students predicted to fall by more than 15% after the year 2025

The Hechinger Report

Only a handful of states, colored in blue, are predicted to see an increase in the number of students attending regional four-year colleges and universities between 2012 and 2029. But student demand is expected to grow for the nation’s most elite colleges and universities between 2012 and 2029. million in 2012 to 1.27

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