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5 Ways to Build Reading Stamina in Adolescent Students

The CoolCatTeacher

Emily is an example of a teacher constantly sharing success stories. She has published articles in the Wisconsin English Journal and has spoken at state and national conferences on aspects of secondary literacy. December 18, 2014. Action Step #4 Share your story. 1 Easy, Fun Way to Ignite a Love of Reading. No trinkets.

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COVID-19 Has Widened the Skills Gap. But It Also Presents an Opportunity to Close It.

Edsurge

employees working from home and interacting with colleagues and customers remotely at the peak of the pandemic, many companies began to invest in digital transformation initiatives to address gaps in cloud adoption and cybersecurity. And it appears that investing in last-mile training has a secondary benefit: higher retention.

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GED and other high school equivalency degrees drop by more than 40% nationwide since 2012

The Hechinger Report

Their best shot at earning one is passing a high-school equivalency exam, what was known as the GED before 2014 but has now splintered into three exam options: the new GED , the TASC and the HiSET. In 2014, the old GED the exam was revamped and the two new exams, TASC and HiSET, entered the market.

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Looking Back on Three Years of the ConnectED Initiative: Did It Deliver?

Edsurge

In February of 2014, Obama rounded up technology donations worth more than a $1 billion from U.S. As EdSurge reported, to be part of the initiative, companies “had to commit to providing goods or services worth at least $100 million.” Did companies fully deliver on their ConnectED promises? Take Adobe , for example.

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Many certificate programs don’t pay off, but colleges want to keep offering them anyway

The Hechinger Report

Take one legal-secretary certificate, for example. Related: Trucking companies train you on the job. For example, sometimes our graduates choose to work part-time to balance their personal obligations with the world of work.” Triton said the data on its students’ earnings was collected in 2014.). The wage is secondary.

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Hotspots, YouTube, WiFi, Oh My! How Renton Prioritizes Infrastructure Over Devices

Edsurge

EdSurge will be hosting hundreds of local teachers and administrators, along with dozens of edtech companies from around the country, at our Summit on Dec. A common example of crossover between the teams occurred when a teacher wanted to unlock a website. Want to learn more about Seattle’s burgeoning edtech scene?

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Robot Teachers, Racist Algorithms, and Disaster Pedagogy

Hack Education

Most, I'd wager, are facing severe funding shortages — the loss of tuition, dorm-room, and sportsball dollars, for example — as well as new expenses like PPE and COVID testing. Technology companies offer their products as the solution, and technology advocates promote the narrative of techno-solutionism. Let me fix that sentence.