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How to Center Equity in Undergraduate Digital Learning

Digital Promise

The COVID-19 pandemic caused postsecondary institutions to abruptly transition many of their spring 2020 courses to digital learning. We hope course participants walk away with four specific outcomes: A concrete plan and tools for measuring impact and equity in a post-secondary course transitioning to digital learning.

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5 Ways to Build Reading Stamina in Adolescent Students

The CoolCatTeacher

Furthermore, in September 2020, UNICEF reported that 1 billion children worldwide aren't learning at all. 0:15 Big Picture Stats 0:54 Andrea Yon's story 1:24 World Literacy Foundation study of the economic and social cost of illiteracy Sponsor: Today’s sponsor, Literal is an app to help students in grades 6-12 engage with reading.

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In College Math, Faculty Is Key. But Will This Insight Actually Help Students?

Edsurge

A number of instructors in the math department at San Diego Mesa College, where she's a professor, had started exploring how to weave standards-based grading — an approach that evaluates students on how effectively they have mastered content — into the way they teach calculus.

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Leadership for Deeper Learning: Excerpt 05

Dangerously Irrelevant

We interviewed leaders at 30 different ‘deeper learning’ schools around the world in 2019 and 2020. At Legacy High School, Tom Schmidt and Ben Johnson, the secondary assistant superintendent, talked to us about how they divided the day into 22 modules, or ‘mods,’ which has allowed for tremendous flexibility.

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Adolescents Need More Proactive, Preventative Mental Health Supports in School

Edsurge

After a two-year decline in 2019 and 2020, suicide rates among American youth increased in 2021, according to a recent report published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). A study released by the U.S. It’s no question that American youth are facing an urgent mental health crisis.

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His Teachers Showed Him Why History Matters. Now He Wants to Pay That Forward.

Edsurge

Plenty of students find social studies lessons a bit dull. Eager to build a career out of his interest in social studies, he thought about museum curation, archival work and practicing law. Wright would come to mind as an example of how to do education right. history class and had always enjoyed my social studies classes.

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How one state is incorporating data science in every subject – even art

The Hechinger Report

With the rise of artificial intelligence tools such as ChatGPT that rely on data sets, students also need to understand how to use AI in a responsible way, he added. In 2020, some of California’s public universities allowed applicants to skip Algebra II and substitute data science. Using federal grants, N.C.

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