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5 Ways To Bring SEL Into Edtech Classroom Use

The CoolCatTeacher

Sponsor : Urkund Urkund is great as a plagiarism prevention tool and connects with most common Learning Management Systems like Google Classroom, Moodle, and Canvas or as a stand-alone web tool or by email. The Urkund system is highly accurate, cost-effective, and even better, doesn’t sell licenses to students or others.

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

The Hechinger Report

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

The Hechinger Report

At the same time, McKinsey & Company estimates that automation and artificial intelligence will displace between 400 and 800 million jobs globally by 2030. School leaders like myself must respond to these challenges by revamping our visions, instructional practices and organizational systems to meet the needs of today’s kids and families.

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Why it matters that Americans are comparatively bad at math

The Hechinger Report

Math performance among elementary and middle-school students has fallen by 6 to 15 percent below pre-pandemic growth rates, depending on the students’ age, since before the pandemic, according to the Northwest Evaluation Association, which administers standardized tests nationwide. Students in China scored the highest.

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The number of public school students could fall by more than 8% in a decade

The Hechinger Report

What does the declining birthrate mean for elementary, middle and high schools across the country? But in order to predict high school graduates, WICHE’s statisticians also projected student enrollments for first grade through 2020 to 12th grade through 2030. That’s an indication of how the whole system might lose students.

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COLUMN: The world is waking up to education’s essential role in climate solutions

The Hechinger Report

The water turned the auditorium into “an aquarium,” in the words of one teacher, and destroyed the heating and cooling systems, along with millions of dollars’ worth of computers and audiovisual equipment. During Hurricane Ida in the summer of 2021, floodwaters had poured into vents set inches above ground level.

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OPINION: Earth Day is over, but there’s a lot more schools can do to address climate change

The Hechinger Report

For example, there is enormous funding available for schools to upgrade their HVAC (heating, ventilation and air-conditioning) systems, in part because improving ventilation can reduce Covid transmission. Indeed, a recent report shows that HVAC systems are slated to be the single largest category of planned spending.

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