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How Can Technology Help Improve Teaching Efficacy in a Classroom?

Kitaboo on EdTech

With EdTech gaining ground, educational institutions, including schools and higher education institutions are increasingly leveraging the advances in technology to support their classrooms. How can teaching technology help improve effectiveness in the classroom?

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Measuring Up–the Key to Meeting State/National Standards

Ask a Tech Teacher

Measuring Up is a suite of tools that supplements any classroom curriculum by offering standards-based instruction, practice, assessment, and reporting customized to many state or national standards–with the singular goal of assisting students in meeting English Language Arts, Mathematics, and/or Science standards. What is Measuring Up?

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How is STEM Education Shaping the Future of our Science Classes?

EdNews Daily

As high school dropout rates increase and the lack of motivation for students to learn science grows, the U.S. Even though schools perform outreach programs to inform community partners of STEM education, it is essential to understand why it is important in our classrooms. However, it is not an easy task. Latinos in STEM Education.

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Improving the quality of a higher educational institution

Linways Technologies

Dropout rate : How many students dropped out without completing the course. Retention rate : How many students stayed as opposed to dropouts. It indicative of the focus and attention students receive from the faculty, and lower ratio means more interactive and adaptive teaching-learning inside the classroom.

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Facing a white-collar worker shortage, American companies seek a blue-collar solution

The Hechinger Report

The dean’s list student ended up a college dropout, a gay 20-something cut off from his parents after coming out, and working at a UPS Store in a job he described as “retail drudgery” while running up credit card debt and stringing out his college loans. It turned out instead to be a bump in the road. He’d hit “absolute rock bottom.”.

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Events + News - Library 2.0 Spring Summit - Free-Range Kids - Testing "Chaos" and Opting Out - Student Debt - Will College Survive?

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

, This is a LIVE show presented in news show format featuring a Wrap up of “This Month in School Libraries” and deeper discussion of topical school library issues with special guest experts. Saturday, May 2nd at 12pm CR20 LIVE Weekly Show - Featured Teacher: Lisa Parisi , Classroom 2.0 Did we mention it was LIVE?

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A charter chain thinks it has the answer for alternative schools

The Hechinger Report

Staff say that they try to be strategic with locations, setting up shop within strip malls and sites that are easy for students to access and that are close to other resources like the public library. The difference may be that they may spend less time in their classroom, but they’re taking responsibility of their own learning,” she said.

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