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Uncertified teachers filling holes in schools across the South

The Hechinger Report

Alabama administrators increasingly hire educators with emergency certifications, often in low-income and majority Black neighborhoods. By 2030, as many as 16 million K-12 students in the region may be taught by an unprepared or inexperienced teacher, the Southern Regional Education Board projects. 11, 2022, in Athens, Ala.

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What Service-Learning and Global Goals Taught Us About Promoting the Greater Good

Edsurge

On this county-wide professional development day, while teachers at many schools around Chesterfield watched the clock, thinking about papers that needed to be graded and plans that needed to be written, the staff at Weaver Elementary spent the day immersed in service and learning together.

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Home visiting in high school: Trying an intervention for toddlers on teenagers

The Hechinger Report

West Virginia unveiled a campaign this year for 60 percent of adults ages 25 to 64 to have earned a degree or certificate by 2030. And in 2016 just 8 percent of McDowell County residents of working age held an associate degree or higher, compared to 31 percent statewide. That’s well below the statewide rate of 55 percent.

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3 Things Great Teachers Do

The CoolCatTeacher

The Kids Discover online platform lets students explore 150 different science and social studies units for elementary and middle school learners at three different lexiles. He is a 2016 Global Teacher Prize Top Ten Winner. We live right now in a world that the educational systems are very rigid. Introducing Joe Fatheree.

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Out of poverty, into the middle class

The Hechinger Report

The jobs that once kept the city prosperous are being replaced by skilled jobs in service sectors such as health care, finance and information technology — positions that require more education than just a high-school diploma, thus squeezing out many of those blue-collar, traditionally middle-class workers. Middle school: h-a-t-e-d it.

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Change Agents: Tech & Learning?s Most Influential People in EdTech In 2018

techlearning

Chatterbox is receiving rave reviews at many schools and top universities across the UK, and Hedayat would love to extend that reach to elementary and high-school classrooms, as well as higher education, across the US. FPF will also launch a new training initiative, addressing educators’ top questions, sometime this fall.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

(National) Education Politics. Listen, folks (particularly educators). ” (In fairness, I’m not sure what the typical work-week looks like for a Secretary of Education.). Via Education Week : “ Trump Nominee for Career-Tech Position Being Pulled Due to Offensive Blog Posts.” More via Politico.