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Education Needs to Push the Hard-Reset Button

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This will ensure highest and best practices for an ever-evolving knowledge base. Establish “Rivers of Learning”. Each river is divided into subsets or streams that provide a more specialized learning mode. He has taught in the same school district his entire career with experience at both secondary and elementary levels.

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Meet The Gates Foundation’s New Deputy Director in Higher Education

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First and foremost, our goal with post-secondary success at the Gates Foundation is really around getting 11 million more credentials and certificates in the hands of folks who otherwise would not have gotten those kinds of credentials in their hands, by the year 2025. There are many different layers of the equity lens that I look through.

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Technology Tools Used in Teaching and Learning

eSchool News

K-12 digital education tools encompass a wide array of types of technology used in education and technological resources designed to enhance teaching and learning experiences in primary and secondary education. This accessibility broadens students’ knowledge base and encourages independent exploration.

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What to Know About Miguel Cardona, Biden’s Pick for Education Secretary

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While Cardona has “not only the knowledge base, but the experience” for the job, one of his greatest attributes, according to Robles-Rivas, is his ability to find and surround himself with smart, capable people who can help him push his agenda forward.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

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In 2011, the Mozilla Foundation unveiled its “Open Badges Project,” “an effort to make it easy to issue and share digital learning badges across the web.” But Amazon has since launched a new marketplace, Amazon Ignite , where teachers can sell not share their class materials. And I’d never gotten my Ph.D.

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