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Abdul Aziz Al Ghurair Refugee Education Fund Partners with Discovery Education

eSchool News

Through a series of online workshops, including but not limited to remote classroom management, effective teaching strategies for enhancing learning with digital resources will be offered. The increase in dropouts from secondary education amongst refugees is alarming, whereby less than 2% of Syrian refugees complete their secondary education.

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Storefront Advising Programs Bring Free College Counseling Into Low-Income Communities

Edsurge

Northside High was previously named for Confederate leader Jefferson Davis, and it was once labeled a “ dropout factory ” in a Johns Hopkins University study of institutions with low graduation rates. As Canizales discovered on his own, the costs and benefits of various post-secondary pathways are not always obvious.

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Minnesota has a persistent higher-ed gap: Are new efforts making a difference?

The Hechinger Report

Luckily for Nyakora — and the patient, Operation’s “Cavity Sam” —the surgery is only a game, part of a stress-management workshop for freshmen and sophomores in a program for underrepresented students here at Minnesota State University, Mankato. The man’s bright red nose lights up, and a buzzer sounds. Nyakora jumps, and his friends laugh.

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Buffalo shows turnaround of urban schools is possible, but it takes a lot more than just money

The Hechinger Report

I would have been a dropout.”. Are our students completing post-secondary education? I don’t even talk to my [real] sister about them or cry in front of her. And I do that with [Stubbe]. Without her I wouldn’t even be in school, honestly. It’s about shifting a culture. We’ve got a long way to go,” Rust acknowledged. “I

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Who Will Teach the Children? The 3 Keys to Building Globally Competitive, World Class Schools

EdNews Daily

I estimate that I have delivered over 250 workshops to about 50,500 educators. I ask at each workshop, “How many of you were well-prepared to enter the classroom when you graduated from your school of education?” ” Everything else is secondary! The vast majority said they weren’t. million trained teachers.

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From private to public school: A college counselor straddles an economic divide

The Hechinger Report

Paradoxically, her job is a classified position that doesn’t require a post-secondary credential, not even a bachelor’s degree, though this varies by school and district. She’s hosting an online workshop on community college applications later in the month and expects that more of her students might look at two-year schools closer to home.

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