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The Pandemic Will Leave More Students Unprepared For College. Developmental Education Must Help.

Edsurge

Educators and legislators must remember that the key to closing the poverty gap in this country and alleviating citizen need for social services is educational attainment , which opens the door to social and economic mobility through employment.

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Chinese New Year- What Animal Am I?

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

1932, 1944, 1956, 1968, 1980, 1992, 2004, 2016, 2028), legend has it that you are a person who is family oriented, you enjoy family get-togethers, indulge in family traditions, and you thrive in group work. NG) This post originally appeared in Educational Technology and Mobile Learning ( www.educatorstechnology.com ).

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

The Hechinger Report

Each time a door opens, cigarette smoke drifts in from the mobile home his family shares next door. 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. The bed dominates the room, and a crooked “home sweet home” plaque hangs on the wall.

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The Best Way to Predict the Future is to Issue a Press Release

Hack Education

This is the last public talk I’ll deliver in 2016, and I confess I am relieved (I am exhausted!) His 2010 book was called What Technology Wants , as though technology is a living being with desires and drives; the title of his 2016 book, The Inevitable. 2016 – the phones in their pockets. Either way. Inevitable.

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As more Americans retire, we must educate a new generation of leaders by making higher ed affordable

The Hechinger Report

An Accenture study found only 18 percent of 2016 college grads expected to earn $25,000 or less per year, but more than double that —39 percent of 2014 and 2015 graduates —failed to find work that paid more than $25,000 per year. will turn 65 every day until about the year 2030. And the graduates aren’t the only ones disappointed.