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Why Efforts to Improve Teacher Productivity and Efficiency May Not Pay Off

Edsurge

It has also impacted the role that teachers play in the mind of educational policy makers and reformers—for good and ill. In today’s workforce, one employee backed up by teams of experts providing training, tools, just-in-time access to materials and data can perform work that once required dozens of line workers.

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?Expanding Access to Edtech Isn’t Enough. We Need to Make Sure It Works, Too

Edsurge

Students need access to tools that work. We hope this will kick off a more intense effort to advance research that leads to better policy and practice in both adopting and using technology. Five factors currently drive this demand for improving the quality and scalability of education technology: Higher academic standards nationwide.

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Plagiarism Checkers: Changing the Writing Process

PlagiarismCheck

Access to billions of scientific research has never been easier, academic journals and the latest discoveries available online and can be analyzed right from mobile phones. Strict adherence to the policy of academic integrity, following academic citation rules and guidelines, to provide proper credit to the sources used in research.

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The Next Social Contract for Public Education Needs New Terms of Service

Doug Levin

Note: The original version of this piece was published on July 7, 2016 by New America as part of an EdCentral series on the next social contract for education: https://www.newamerica.org/education-policy/edcentral/next-social-contract-public-education-needs-new-terms-service/.

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Innovative ideas for school libraries

eSchool News

As librarians, our job is to not only give students and teachers access to resources they need to succeed, but to be their guide when choosing these resources. Prioritizing equitable library access for students As school libraries evolve and best practices shift accordingly, there is one constant to solve for: equity.

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Seeing the Pandemic as an Opportunity for Change

edWeb.net

Unequal access to external support: Staff can’t just assume students will have access to the same resources at home or that they will willingly talk about what they have and don’t have. Noguera was recently appointed to serve as a special advisor to the governor of New Mexico on education policy. About the Hosts. Dr. Daniel A.

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REINVENTING.SCHOOL Thursday with Howard Blumenthal - "What About My Job at School?" #reinventingschool #learningrevolution

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

To watch the live show at 4:00 pm US-EDT, or to access the recordings afterward, please go to [link] (or [link] ). Her extensive background in education and public policy includes a role as Assistant Secretary of Education and Counselor to Secretary of Education Lamar Alexander under George H.W. Department of Education.