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OPINION: Creating better post-pandemic education for English learners

The Hechinger Report

In a spring survey in California, nearly one-third of Spanish-speaking families said that they could not understand the distance learning information sent home by their children’s schools. This issue is particularly important for English learners and their families , given that many U.S.

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What If Schools Viewed Outdoor Learning as ‘Plan A’?

Edsurge

In May, as one school year ended and another began to loom large on the horizon, Danks and the leaders of a handful of other outdoor education advocacy groups— Ten Strands , the Lawrence Hall of Science museum in Berkeley, Calif., She was also given another title: interim outdoor learning coordinator. In June, the group mobilized.

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Leading Learning in a Blended Environment

edWeb.net

According to the district’s superintendent, Dr. Mark Benigni, their cloud-based solutions, including ClassLink, supports students spending additional time online learning. For Dr. Benigni’s district, the survey mechanism and some face-to-face open forums have been beneficial.

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

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

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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A true gift from SHEG: DIY digital literacy assessments and tools for historical thinking

NeverEndingSearch

You may remember Stanford History Education Group (SHEG) for its groundbreaking and utterly depressing report, Evaluating Information: The Cornerstone of Online Civic Reasoning. In the November 2016 Executive Summary , the researchers shared: When thousands of students respond to dozens of tasks there are endless variations.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

.” Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). Via The Hechinger Report : “ Virtual charter schools need ‘bold action’ for change, says national charter school advocacy group.” “ Report: California public colleges not producing enough STEM degrees.” ” No, Salon.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

” From the Department of Education press release : “Secretary DeVos Accepts President Trump’s Q2 Salary as a Donation for STEM-Focused Camp.” Bloomberg reports that “ Trump Administration Tapping Tech CEOs for STEM Policy Approach.” ” $100,000. Trump’s budget, of course, cuts $9.2