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REINVENTING.SCHOOL Live Show Today - The Exploding Trend of "Pandemic Pods" and Micro-Schools #reinventingschool #learningrevolution

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Mara Linaberger, EdD is Founder & COO, Microschool Builder, and the author of The Micro-School Builder’s Handbook. I work on a freelance basis, turning your company's data into earned media coverage by telling compelling, data-driven stories through graphics and text. My Child Hates School and The Micro-School Builder’s Handbook.

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A New Social Science? Statistics Outgrowing Other STEM Fields

TeachThought - Learn better.

Statistics Outgrows All Other STEM Fields From 2010-2013. Degree categories with a minimum of 200 completions in 2013 were included in the analysis. The ASA analysis showed undergraduate statistics degrees nearly doubled (95% growth rate) during the period spanning 2010 to 2013. Increase # of 2013.

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Students are enlisted to help flailing classmates deal with money matters

The Hechinger Report

A separate study by the loan company Sallie Mae found that nearly a quarter of students don’t pay bills on time, nearly half set aside no savings, 40 percent spend more than they have, more than a third don’t read their credit card reports and more than a third don’t pay off their full credit card balance every month.

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Announcing "The Microschool Summit - Changing education, one small school at a time!"

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Launching Mindful Technology Consultants in 2013, she continues to train teachers at the masters level on the use of digital portfolios as alternative assessments and on bringing mindfulness practices into the classroom. My Child Hates School and The Micro-School Builder’s Handbook.

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Thursday's Microschool Summit - Stories of Starting Schools | Schedule Announced

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Launching Mindful Technology Consultants in 2013, she continues to train teachers at the masters level on the use of digital portfolios as alternative assessments and on bringing mindfulness practices into the classroom. My Child Hates School and The Micro-School Builder’s Handbook.

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Microschool Summit Keynote Panel Announced | Parenting 2.0 | High School Superstardom | Overcoming Self Sabotage | Starting a Side Gig

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Launching Mindful Technology Consultants in 2013, she continues to train teachers at the masters level on the use of digital portfolios as alternative assessments and on bringing mindfulness practices into the classroom. My Child Hates School and The Micro-School Builder’s Handbook.

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Truth, truthiness, triangulation and the librarian way: A news literacy toolkit for a “post-truth” world

NeverEndingSearch

The Verification Handbooks are a wonderful lens into this complicated process.). content farm or content mill : a company that employs a staff of freelance writers to create content designed to satisfy search engine retrieval algorithms with the goal of attracting views and advertising revenue. On news literacy. ” ( Wikipedia ).