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What Service-Learning and Global Goals Taught Us About Promoting the Greater Good

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On this county-wide professional development day, while teachers at many schools around Chesterfield watched the clock, thinking about papers that needed to be graded and plans that needed to be written, the staff at Weaver Elementary spent the day immersed in service and learning together.

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Where education systems stumble, grassroots groups step in to raise success rates

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Their goal: for 75,000 Mobile residents to earn new degrees by 2030. Carolyn Akers, CEO of a grassroots education foundation in Mobile, which is part of an effort to help 75,000 Mobile students earn new degrees by 2030. Airbus employees have volunteered as reading buddies for children in elementary, middle and high schools.

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3 Things Great Teachers Do

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The Kids Discover online platform lets students explore 150 different science and social studies units for elementary and middle school learners at three different lexiles. Joe: Well, I’m excited, because I look out at the world, and we have – UNESCO says, by 2030, we have a teacher shortage of 25.8 Where teaching is today.

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Out of poverty, into the middle class

The Hechinger Report

Elementary school: hated it,” Amber says. As emerging technologies rapidly and thoroughly transform the workplace, some experts predict that by 2030 400 million to 800 million people worldwide could be displaced and need to find new jobs. Six months before she graduates, she is not about to hide her feelings: She hates school.

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Change Agents: Tech & Learning?s Most Influential People in EdTech In 2018

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Chatterbox is receiving rave reviews at many schools and top universities across the UK, and Hedayat would love to extend that reach to elementary and high-school classrooms, as well as higher education, across the US. STACEY CHILDRESS No one knows what the economy will look like when today’s kindergarteners graduate from high school in 2030.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

The seller: Book Dog Books. Techcrunch reports that “ Sesame Street turns to Kickstarter to fund autism book.” Via The Washington Post : “The new lesson plan for elementary school: Surviving the Internet.” Via The Washington Post : “ Howard student sues school amid financial aid scandal.”

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The 2019 Global Education Conference - Full List of 130 Sessions and 10 Keynotes!

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Ozelle Stephen, Rev/Director of Education, Miridians Elementary School, Centre of Enabling Support Foundation, Uganda Access to Quality education Opportunities, Good Health + Well-being for all. Dr. Gaudino is the author of two books: A Choral Legacy and Joan Yakkey and Her Children's Choir Legacy in Florence, Italy. Dr. Beate W.