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eSports: The Growing Extra-Curricular Activity NOW!

The CoolCatTeacher

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter Believe it or not, gaming is gaining popularity in schools, not just as a pastime, but as part of curriculum. com/chsm Twitter: @CompleteHSM Disclosure of Material Connection: This is a “sponsored podcast episode.” Website: www.usd266.com/chsm

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Fuel Education Honors Seven Programs for Transforming Education for Students

techlearning

Herndon, Virginia, July 2, 2018 —Education is not one size fits all. The 2018 Fuel Education (FuelEd®) Transformation Award winners are: Boulder Valley School District (Colo.) – for improving graduation rates and meeting student needs by providing online options for credit recovery and supplemental learning. ©2018 Fuel Education LLC.

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Change One Simple Thing to Start Your Journey to Remarkable Teaching

The CoolCatTeacher

Pam Moran on episode 246 of the 10-Minute Teacher Podcast From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Date: February 5, 2018. ” We have a significantly low dropout rate and high on-time graduation rate in Albemarle. I hope that we will continue to connect on Twitter and around there.

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A Year in Review 15-16

The Thinking Stick

I can’t wait to see where we are in 2018 and beyond. You can view them here ( link to blog ) or follow COETAIL on Facebook or Twitter as we release them once a week over the summer. Full disclosure our dropout rate is roughly 15%. If this is where we are at in 7 months. Cohort 1 is on training 7 of 12.

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PROOF POINTS: When women studied with women, they persisted, study finds

The Hechinger Report

That’s what a University of Zurich graduate student found in an experiment conducted in 2018 and 2019 involving more than 600 college students and 150 study groups. Their dropout rates were very similar whether they were in a study group’s minority or the majority. In the end, 9 percent of the men dropped the course.

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How To Make A Civics Education Stick

MindShift

“What’s the dropout rate in some places? ” “Question everything” “Civic participation in 2018 is different from civic participation in 1950,” says Jon Valant, an education research fellow at the Brookings Institution. You can unfriend someone on Facebook or mute specific phrases on Twitter.

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Five-Way Merger Creates New Illuminate Education: Bringing K-12 Educators the Broadest Choice of Student Achievement and Personalized Learning Offerings

techlearning

Irvine, Lake Elsinore, and Santa Clara, CA, Atlanta, GA, and Centennial , CO (July 03, 2018) Illuminate Education , the company transforming K-12 instruction through education intelligence solutions, has merged with IO Education, SchoolCity, Alpine Achievement, and Key Data Systems (KDS). For more information on: www.alpineachievement.com.