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Approaching an Online Computer Science Degree: What You Need to Know

EdTech4Beginners

Each institution provides unique strengths, from LU’s well-rounded approach to MIT’s rigorous academic standards. Grasping the Breadth of the Curriculum Computer science is a diverse field, and its study encompasses various subjects like programming, algorithms, data structures, and more.

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Everything You Need To Know About the Georgia Milestones Assessment System

Georgia Test Prep

If you’ve got a child in the Georgia state school system, then you’ve probably heard of the Georgia Milestones Assessment System and how important it is. This post is a comprehensive guide on what the Georgia Milestones Assessment System (GMAS) is all about. They can indeed influence how your child progresses through school.

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What an Admissions Fight at America’s ‘Best’ High School Says About Educational Equity

Edsurge

That’s because the current admissions system leaves out nearly all of the Black and Hispanic students in the area. And last fall, the Fairfax County Public School Board proposed a radical change to the TJ admissions process: Scrapping the admissions test to replace it with a lottery of students who meet a minimum academic standard.

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How to Make Standards Mastery Accessible to All

N2Y

Before many states adopted extended (accessible) educational standards for students with unique needs, we began developing differentiated materials to provide students with the ability to learn skills, demonstrate knowledge and raise the bar for educational expectations. These standards outline, by grade level, what a student should know.

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I Love Being a Teacher, But I Can’t Survive on Compassion

Edsurge

My four years in college studying to become an educator did not prepare me for what I encountered. Most administrators were more concerned with meeting academic standards and metrics than offering holistic support to students who couldn’t meet these standards because of their personal challenges.

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Autonomy, the future of education.

Linways Technologies

to bring together educators, academicians, and education enthusiasts to collectively discuss various methods that can be adopted in the education system to reshape the future of education. One of the discussions we had that could reshape the education system was based on implementing Autonomy- the future of Education. Board of Studies.

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Study: Holding Kids Back A Grade Doesn’t Necessarily Hold Them Back

MindShift

Our education system has this funny quirk of grouping kids by birth date — rather than, say, intellectual ability or achievement or interest. Now comes a big study to say something different: Holding kids back at third grade when they don’t meet the academic standards will give them a boost in achievement, by some measures.

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