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Uncertified teachers filling holes in schools across the South

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In Oklahoma, lawmakers expanded an “adjunct” program that enables schools to hire applicants without teacher training if they meet a local board’s qualifications. By 2030, as many as 16 million K-12 students in the region may be taught by an unprepared or inexperienced teacher, the Southern Regional Education Board projects.

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OPINION: How schools can find common ground in an era of education wars

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The toxic and ominous polarization of our politics has arrived in our school board meetings, and educators are getting pummeled by accusations that they are brainwashing children into believing “woke” ideologies. Public education in America is under attack on multiple fronts. School budgets are getting squeezed as Covid stimulus winds down.

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

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Chandra Scott, director of strategic outcomes for the independent nonprofit Mobile Area Education Foundation, sat in on meetings to attract new business to the area, where boosters extolled the education system. “We Their goal: for 75,000 Mobile residents to earn new degrees by 2030. We thought things were fine,” Scott says. “We

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Home visiting in high school: Trying an intervention for toddlers on teenagers

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West Virginia unveiled a campaign this year for 60 percent of adults ages 25 to 64 to have earned a degree or certificate by 2030. Like elementary and middle school home visits, high school home visits are all about relationship building. Now, she’s the most outspoken person you’ll ever meet,” he said. Rural ones.

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OPINION: The pandemic will leave the next generation of Black tech talent behind

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Students who fall behind academically are very likely to remain behind — and elementary school test scores are a strong predictor of meeting future milestones like high school graduation. It’s this kind of all-hands-on-deck approach we’ll need to meet the unprecedented academic challenge that Covid presents our students and schools.

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The potential, promise and pitfalls of blended learning in India

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billion population is under 25, will need some three million new primary school teachers by 2030. billion population is under 25, will need three million new primary school teachers by 2030. “I Related: Most students go to a school that meets federal standards for Internet speed.

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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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