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Abdul Aziz Al Ghurair Refugee Education Fund Partners with Discovery Education

eSchool News

Through a series of online workshops, including but not limited to remote classroom management, effective teaching strategies for enhancing learning with digital resources will be offered. The increase in dropouts from secondary education amongst refugees is alarming, whereby less than 2% of Syrian refugees complete their secondary education.

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Millennials: The Straw That Will Stir Higher Education’s Next Disruption

EdNews Daily

Famous billionaire college dropouts like Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates, and the late Steve Jobs are prominent examples of successes who never completed undergraduate degrees. In 2015, it was named the No. It hosts workshops, one-on-one consultations, and mixers that bring students and businesses together. This is a vital issue.

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How a Chinatown school is trying to bring more diversity to theater

The Hechinger Report

Around 2009, Lee learned about the Junior Theater Festival (JTF) in Atlanta, where students from across the country gather for three days to compete, take workshops and nerd out over musical theater. Her son, Aaron Wang, starred as the title character in “The Music Man” in the 2015-16 school year.) “I

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Why decades of trying to end racial segregation in gifted education haven’t worked

The Hechinger Report

million public school students were identified as gifted in 2015-16, about 6 percent of the total school population, according to the federal Department of Education. percent, were considered gifted in 2015-16. There are gifted dropouts. School administrators often see gifted education as a frill. Nationally, 3.3

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College dreams often melt away in summer months. ‘Near-peer’ counseling is helping keep them alive.

The Hechinger Report

Studies suggest that when it comes to fighting summer melt, programs that rely on human interaction — in the form of one-to-one counseling, “near-peer” coaching (like CARA’s, in which college students coach high school students), workshops and personalized communication — may hold the most promise.