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Why Schools Can’t Talk About Family Engagement Without Talking About Race

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Last summer, not far from the doorsteps of Oakland Unified School District, a group of parents came together to build an academic program from scratch in an effort to close the gap between the education their children were getting in school and the education they deserved.

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What happens when college students discuss lab work in Spanish, philosophy in Chinese or opera in Italian?

The Hechinger Report

Sign up for our Higher Education newsletter. Higher Education. Language educators lament that courses in STEM are celebrated for teaching real-world skills, but language classes are not. “It The sections can also help students acquire basic second-language vocabulary useful in their primary academic fields. Weekly Update.

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Colleges welcome first-year students by getting them thinking about jobs

The Hechinger Report

This new attention to career advising largely stems from growing expectations that institutions will help students get good jobs — which 85 percent of first-year students rated as “very important” among their reasons for going to college in the first place, according to a national survey conducted by an institute at UCLA.

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What’s school without grade levels?

The Hechinger Report

On windswept fields outside Fargo, North Dakota, a bold experiment in education has begun. Some school leaders insist that competency-based education can survive and even thrive within grade levels, or a modified version of them. Photo: Chris Berdik for The Hechinger Report. HUNTER, N.D. —

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Worldwide, Online, and Free - The Library 2.013 Conference Starts Friday

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

The Era of Big Data - Dr. Katalin Varga associate professor 11:30am The usage of data mining technologies in the library / Adatbányászati technológiák könyvtári hasznosítása - Edina Kovacs - student 12:00pm "Tour" of Liaison Services and Challenges for STEM Outreach - Lea Leininger, Health Sciences Librarian Federated or harvested searching.

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From foster care to college

The Hechinger Report

T his story about foster care and higher education was produced as part of a series, “Twice Abandoned: How schools and child-welfare systems fail kids in foster care,” reported by HuffPost and The Hechinger Report , a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education. KALAMAZOO, Mich.

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