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Uncertified teachers filling holes in schools across the South

The Hechinger Report

In Oklahoma, lawmakers expanded an “adjunct” program that enables schools to hire applicants without teacher training if they meet a local board’s qualifications. Preservice teachers take an ethics seminar provided by the Athens State college of education, Tuesday, Oct. In a 2016 study, the U.S. 11, 2022, in Athens, Ala.

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Black college presidents matter; we should lead from the top

The Hechinger Report

In a 2017 study by the American Council on Education, a higher education association, researchers found that individuals who identified as something other than white held just 17 percent of college and university presidencies in 2016, while representing 42 percent of students enrolled in 2015.

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Edtech Bootstrapping 101: A Survival Story

Edsurge

March 2016 We launch our first online course, and our first customer buys from Sao Paulo, Brazil. A CodaKid Minecraft Modding class meets at our Old Town Scottsdale academy in 2016. Fall 2016 My wife and I liquidate all of our investments and savings. December 2016 We keep grinding and launch two more online courses.

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To Retain College Students, Look to Academic Support and Campus Activities, New Report Finds

Edsurge

From fall 2016 to fall 2017, retention rates for first-time, full-time undergraduate students seeking degrees at four-year colleges was 81 percent, according to the National Center for Education Statistics. This means, for example, that students who participated in advisor meetings returned to campus the following term at a rate of 5.8

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OPINION: Can Zoom classes keep students excited and engaged? We have found some ways

The Hechinger Report

We could neither travel nor meet in person. Our political reporting classes had grown out of student reporting trips we took to Cuba, where we covered emerging entrepreneurism in 2015 , the arts in 2016 , and the local environment in 2017. Must we abandon the background dossiers that students had prepared on New Mexico and Texas?

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A Busy Summer Ahead

ignitionEDU

I am super excited to be able to see (and, in some cases, meet for the first time face to face) so many in my PLN. International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) 2016 – June 27, 28, & 29, Denver, CO (Mostly attending. Google Geo Teachers Institute 2016 – July 25 & 26, Mountain View, CA (Attending).

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Students CAN Lead: Implementing a Student Leadership Program in your School

EdTechTeam

After several years as an Instructional Technology Specialist and taking a short hiatus from conference-going due to my son’s long term illness, I dove head first into every conference, seminar, and book I could find. I learned so much and networked with so many educators who I greatly admire.