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OPINION: Studying humanities can prepare the next generation of social justice leaders

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The drop in humanities majors and a significant and simultaneous rise in the number of STEM graduates show that students have altered their understanding of what they should study to achieve success in the post-collegiate job market. Miriam Hamburger, a 2017 religious studies graduate from Occidental College, is a good example.

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The SLIDE Study: A chat with Deb Kachel (Part 2)

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The study emphasizes a critical equity issue: our most vulnerable students are those most impacted by a declining numbers of school librarians. I recently chatted with project director, Deb Kachel to dig a little deeper into what the study means and her hopes for its impact and use. or SLIDE research project. It was never documented.

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Colleges Are Missing Out on Students Who Start — But Don’t Finish — Their Applications

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It’s one relevant to past research about barriers preventing students from enrolling in college, said Taylor Odle, an assistant professor of educational policy studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and co-author of the “non-submitters” study. This study shows otherwise. Department of Education.

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On the Relationship Between Adopting OER and Improving Student Outcomes

Iterating Toward Openness

Leveraging the “No Significant Difference” Effect for OER Advocacy. They are essentially media comparison studies or, to be more precise, license comparison studies. It should surprise no one that media comparison studies find no significant difference in student learning.

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Before assigning homework, ensure that students have a home

The Hechinger Report

But since it wasn’t our house, they could use the bathroom first,” Kimberly, 12, told the child advocacy organization Children’s Defense Fund for their The State of America’s Children 2014 report. percent or higher in suburban, town, and rural districts,” according to a 2017 report from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES).

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Roybi Raises $4.2 Million Seed Round to Produce Educational Robots

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Founded in 2017, Roybi now has six full-time employees. But some studies have suggested that bots could help with learning new languages. Another study , by Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers, used a group of 17 children to gauge the potential for robots supporting early language development.

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?Resource: Project Unicorn Interoperability

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Project Unicorn is an advocacy initiative focused on improving data interoperability within K-12 education. Project Unicorn is an education advocacy initiative that got started in May 2017; so far, some 200 school systems, representing 2 million students, have signed on to support the effort. Data Quality Campaign.