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Profile of Asbury Park (NJ) Superintendent Sancha Gray

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We share these tools with parents so that they can reinforce the strategies at home. We have staff, we have a computer-based monolingual English program that parents can log in and access. School leaders used specific strategies to ensure that these volunteers could support instruction and help improve reading outcomes effectively.

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?Blockchain, Bitcoin and the Tokenization of Learning

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Investors might be less interested in buying and trading tokens for a streaming service that they can access for regular cash. Google gave a similar live lesson service a shot—minus the cryptocurrency—where viewers and experts could connect via Google Hangout to learn skills such as photography, cooking or education.

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Impatient for workers, businesses help students take college shortcuts

The Hechinger Report

Many of his friends took the same shortcut to good jobs at companies including Sony and Lockheed Martin. This week, they’re building basic apps and games using Firebase, a Google platform. Samaniego created the website Blue Agua as a class project to raise money for access to water for people who don’t have it.

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Impatient with universities’ slow pace of change, employers go around them

The Hechinger Report

There’s just a giant gap there,” said Sean Gallagher, executive director of the Center for the Future of Higher Education and Talent Strategy at Northeastern University. It usually manages to fill just two or three of those positions, Soni said. Soni is more blunt.

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WHAT’S NEW

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BLACKBOARD AND READSPEAKER ( www.blackboard.com ) & ( www.readspeaker.com ) Blackboard and ReadSpeaker are furthering their partnership to help instructors worldwide improve course content accessibility. This allows students to automatically access an MP3 version of content added by the instructor into the LMS.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Via Inside Higher Ed : “2-Pronged Strategy Against ‘ Gainful ’ Rule.” ” The Google Memo. Via Motherboard : “ Google Employee’s Anti-Diversity Manifesto Goes ‘Internally Viral’ ” Via Wired : “Internal Messages Show Some Googlers Supported Fired Engineer’s Manifesto.”

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Five Ethical Considerations For Using Virtual Reality with Children and Adolescents

MindShift

All the major players, including Microsoft, Sony, Samsung, Google and an HTC and Valve partnership are jostling for the consumer headset market. This means homes and school now have easy access to a technology that, less than a decade ago, seemed limited to the sci-fi realms of Star Trek and the X-Men.