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Canada treats its adjunct professors better than the U.S. does – and it pays off for students 

The Hechinger Report

If you’re cobbling together jobs at different universities to make ends meet, you don’t have the time to do the work you want to with your students,” said AFT President Randi Weingarten. It’s not fair to them — we know that. The AFT represents 85,000 adjuncts who have unionized. “If The arts building at McGill University in Montreal.

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Looking to Eliminate Dropouts? How Idaho Reached English Language Learners with a ‘Hybrid’ Course Experiment

Edsurge

In the past two academic years, Idaho Digital Learning Academy (IDLA), an online state school created by the Idaho Legislature, has taken proactive steps to fix a key problem: losing English Language Learner (ELL) students before high school graduation, and losing them from highly technical and content-driven courses like biology.

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Erasing the Look and Feel of Poverty

Digital Promise

Eastwood often fondly recalls when Middletown High School’s newly renovated stadium hosted a regional track meet. Overall, there is a risk that a “ digital learning gap ” is forming on top of the achievement gap that already exists. It helps the teachers differentiate the instruction to meet the child’s needs.”.

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Erasing the Look and Feel of Poverty

Digital Promise

Eastwood often fondly recalls when Middletown High School’s newly renovated stadium hosted a regional track meet. Overall, there is a risk that a “ digital learning gap ” is forming on top of the achievement gap that already exists. All schools are equipped with high-speed Wi-Fi.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

” Via The Washington Post : “ DeVos rejects invitation to meet with former for-profit college students.” Via ProPublica : “ For-Profit Schools Get State Dollars For Dropouts Who Rarely Drop In.” Related, via Salon : “ Silicon Valley ’s $300M donation to STEM educatio n is not what it seems.”