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Inquiry Hub Secondary School – Confluence and Influence

Pair-a-dimes for Your Thoughts

Confluence and Influence – Inquiry Hub Secondary School. Background: The 2018-2019 school year is Inquiry Hub Secondary’s 7th year since it was founded. In 2015 Riverside Secondary School started delivering Digital Learning 10 to their Grade 9 students (which is also the grade we deliver it at for Inquiry Hub students).

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5 Ways to Build Reading Stamina in Adolescent Students

The CoolCatTeacher

0:15 Big Picture Stats 0:54 Andrea Yon's story 1:24 World Literacy Foundation study of the economic and social cost of illiteracy Sponsor: Today’s sponsor, Literal is an app to help students in grades 6-12 engage with reading. UNESCO (2017, September 2017). December 18, 2014. Stream by clicking here. “How Did U.S.

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The Awkward Truth About ‘Free College’—It Isn’t Truly Free

Edsurge

In 2014, when Tennessee unveiled a statewide scholarship to cover tuition expenses at community colleges, the program was praised for making higher education possible for more people. Yet many students in community colleges study part-time to juggle work, or other obligations, and their studies.

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Before assigning homework, ensure that students have a home

The Hechinger Report

But since it wasn’t our house, they could use the bathroom first,” Kimberly, 12, told the child advocacy organization Children’s Defense Fund for their The State of America’s Children 2014 report. In 2014-15, the rate of homelessness among U.S. in 2017. . Homework will always be secondary to a home.

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Here’s What Happens When Every Student Gets a Personalized Learning Plan

Edsurge

Vermont’s Agency of Education (AOE) defines flexible pathways as “any combination of high-quality academic and experiential components leading to secondary school completion and postsecondary readiness.” Other students are enrolled in online courses at both the secondary and postsecondary level.

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U.S. K-12 Educational Technology Policy: Historical Notes on the Federal Role

Doug Levin

For each of the three primary (equity-focused) federal educational technology programs authorized by Congress since the passage of the 1994 revision to the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), below I provide details on the programs’: legislative authorization (i.e., FY 2014 $0. FY 2003 $700,500,000. ” FY 2012 $0.

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Untapped Promise in Charter School Policy

ExcelinEd

For example, Texas created a pilot project in 2014, founding a Goodwill Excel Center in Austin. A report to the 85th Texas Legislative Session in 2017 recommended doubling the size of the program after strong indicators of success. An Arizona study commissioned by Goodwill estimated a $5.3