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What Can You Do with an English Degree

Kyle Pace

Additionally, English graduates often venture into technical writing, where they distil complex information into accessible manuals, help guides, and documentation for various industries. Others find their niche in literary analysis, contributing to academic journals or publishing critical essays on literature and culture.

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This Is Your Brain on Math: The Science Behind Culturally Responsive Instruction

Edsurge

In one of the lessons , students accessed the Agriculture Department’s Food Access Research Atlas to locate food deserts in their city. The location students identified had to be strategically located for equitable access, accounting for the needs of community members most limited by transportation and low economic support.

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Undocumented High School Students Are Now the ‘Post-DACA Generation’

Edsurge

This year marks the first time since 2012 that a majority of undocumented high schoolers who are graduating won’t be able to apply to the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, known simply as DACA, according to a new report from the immigrant advocacy group FWD.us. analysis of augmented 2021 American Community Survey data.

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Colleges Are Missing Out on Students Who Start — But Don’t Finish — Their Applications

Edsurge

million students accessed the Common App, created a profile and began working on at least one application. He and Preston Magouirk, chief data officer at the nonprofit DC College Access Program, took that step back. This underscores the fact that people who access the Common App at all have a high baseline enrollment rate.

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PROOF POINTS: New research review questions the evidence for special education inclusion

The Hechinger Report

But a recent international analysis of all the available research on special education inclusion found inconsistent results. ” The Campbell Collaboration study is a meta-analysis, which means it is supposed to sweep up all the best research on a topic and use statistics to tell us where the preponderance of the evidence lies.

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On the Relationship Between Adopting OER and Improving Student Outcomes

Iterating Toward Openness

Leveraging the “No Significant Difference” Effect for OER Advocacy. Implications of the access hypothesis : Why do most comparisons of OER to traditional materials fail to find a positive effect of OER? They had an important role to play in OER advocacy. call this “the access hypothesis.”

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Technology Made Special Education Parents Better Advocates During the Pandemic

Edsurge

But McKittrick’s analysis of school reopening plans for Fall 2020 revealed little mention of special education programs. The schools that most successfully served their special education groups were those that prioritized communication and learning about families' needs, McKittrick found in her own analysis.