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Smoothing the path for immigrants to finish their college degrees

The Hechinger Report

When he tried to enroll, he found that colleges had no idea how to handle his international transcripts and credentials. And colleges across the country are bracing for a shrinking number of graduating high schoolers after 2025 to have an effect on their enrollment. But the language barrier was only part of the challenge.

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Why haven’t new federal rules unleashed more innovation in schools?

The Hechinger Report

“The bad news is we’re not seeing a lot of innovation or discussion around personalized learning,” said Claire Voorhees, national policy director for the Tallahassee, Florida-based Foundation for Excellence in Education, an advocacy group for personalized learning. Related: In one state, students are ditching classrooms for jobs.

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What does ‘career readiness’ look like in middle school?

The Hechinger Report

Juliet won’t finish high school before 2025, but the 11-year-old already has big plans: She wants to be a mechanical engineer. Related: How to build an engineer: Start young. In 2018, Congress passed a revamped version of the Carl D. Related: Revamped and rigorous, career and technical education is ready to be taken seriously.

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How diplomas based on skill acquisition, not credits earned, could change education

The Hechinger Report

By 2025, four additional subject areas will be included: a second language, the arts, health and physical education. When such a system works, it’s meant to offer students clarity about what they have to learn and how they are expected to demonstrate they’ve learned it. Part of this change has been about equity,” Nadeau said.

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What Does ‘Career Readiness’ Look Like in Middle School?

MindShift

Juliet won’t finish high school before 2025, but the 11-year-old already has big plans: She wants to be a mechanical engineer. That perspective bothers Kellie O’Quinn, director of the Center for Social Measurement and Research at Children at Risk, a children’s advocacy organization in Houston. “I

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These Educators Grew Up Before DACA. Now Their Students Face the Same Barriers.

Edsurge

So for now, Aguilar advises these students as best she can.The teacher helps with their practical questions, like how to pay for higher education. Stuck in Limbo In a recently released report , immigration advocacy organization FWD.us By 2025, no undocumented high school graduates will be eligible for DACA under current rules.”

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

The Flipped Classroom". It was probably Sal Khan’s 2011 TED Talk “Let’s Use Video to Reinvent Education” and the flurry of media he received over the course of the following year or so that introduced the idea of the “flipped classroom” to most people. WTF is Unizin ?! Collared Dove. Ban Laptops" Op-Eds. They’re distracted.

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