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School Leadership in the Common Core Era

A Principal's Reflections

In our attempt to identify these youngsters, we hope to better serve them through our advocacy for a school-wide framework to support their learning needs. Students who are not performing at grade level in the core subject matters (Dove & Honigsfeld, 2013, pp. Struggling Learners. References Dove, M. & Honigsfeld, A.

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Ensuring Access to Robust Broadband for ALL Students

Doug Levin

In June of 2013, the President announced his intention to “ connect 99 percent of America’s students to the internet through high-speed broadband and high-speed wireless within 5 years.” We should demand more of our political leaders and from our education advocacy organizations.

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How to Increase Family Involvement with Connection

Waterford

Topics should include relationship building, advocacy, and culturally relevant strategies. Schools can enact strategies to help families overcome systemic barriers like lack of transportation, long or irregular work hours, lack of access to childcare, so they can become more involved. Child and Adolescent Mental Health. Pirchio, S.,

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?Forbes “30 Under 30” Education Leaders to Learn From in 2017

Edsurge

The magazine’s “30 Under 30” list, which highlights young leaders in fields such as technology, music and healthcare, added education to the list in 2013 and since then has grown from nearly 90 nominations in 2014 to more than 450 last year. (Shots at getting into Stanford and Harvard are both higher.)

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Roybi Raises $4.2 Million Seed Round to Produce Educational Robots

Edsurge

The company is also in talks with retailers, an area of expertise for Sarraf, who co-founded iBaby Labs in 2013. Even when not in a classroom, certain toys must adhere to the federal Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act, commonly called COPPA. Anything involving video and audio and children is uniquely sensitive,” she adds.

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GlobalEdCon 2013 - Day Three Schedule

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Today is day three of the 2013 Global Education Conference. A summary of today''s sessions is shown below in US-Eastern Standard Time (GMT/UTC-5). To see the schedule in your own time zone, with the full session descriptions and a link to enter each session, go to [link].

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OPINION: Studying humanities can prepare the next generation of social justice leaders

The Hechinger Report

Caroline Condren, a 2013 English BA recipient from Colorado College, works as a senior development and communications manager at a documentary film company that melds content production and social advocacy. She researches ethical issues related to collections of ancestral remains for the GRASSI Museum in Leipzig, Germany.

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