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OPINION: Often overlooked vocational-tech schools provide great solutions to student debt, labor shortages

The Hechinger Report

A report from the Massachusetts Business Alliance for Education found that among employers in the Bay State with knowledge of vocational schools, “there was general agreement that vocational school graduates are more job-ready than general education or college preparatory high school graduates.”. percent , even lower than the overall 1.5

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Retrieval practice, CBE, and what we value regarding student learning

Dangerously Irrelevant

A number of educators across the country are finding great value in ‘learning science’ books such as Powerful Teaching: Unleash the Science of Learning. By doing so, schools will continue to reduce kids to proficiency scales, score reports, and individualized, dehumanized, numerical widgets in mechanistic, technocratic educational systems.

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School Cellphone Use Contracts Can Reduce Bullying

EdNews Daily

The Washington Post reported (July 16, 2019) that a report filed by the National Center for Education Statistics, that online bullying and texting is the rise among middle and high school students. More white students, 17 percent reported being bullied on line, compared with 12 percent of other races.

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How does an intelligent learning platform help teachers create a truly personalized learning environment?

Neo LMS

E-books, studies, and essays. Besides personalized learning recommendations, ILPs also provide in-depth learning analytics and reports. Reports help educational institutions make sure that their efforts to personalize learning bring the expected results. . Literature-related articles. Links to videos, movies, documentaries .

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How edtech is transforming bilingual education in the U.S.

eSchool News

Bilingual education’s impact With 1 in every 10 students experiencing a lack of English proficiency, millions are at risk for struggles with reading and writing comprehension, reduced academic achievement, and less rigorous tracks of study, which lead to increased dropout rates, and lowered educational attainment and human capital.

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The Professional Development Problem

EdNews Daily

Recent studies, including the Gates Foundation, the TNTP Project and Harvard research, all report failing grades from administrators and teachers alike, which is one certainty we can begin with. Dr. Jared Scherz is a clinical psychologist, the author of five books on schools and the founder of TeacherCoach. With research from the U.S.

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The Des Moines Register’s editorial on student retention is lazy and irresponsible

Dangerously Irrelevant

In his highly-acclaimed book, Visible Learning: A Synthesis of Over 800 Meta-Analyses Relating to Achievement , he highlighted 138 different factors that can influence student learning success. Significantly higher dropout rates. Image credit: Mackenzie Ryan, Des Moines Register education reporter.