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Struggling small colleges are joining the ’sharing economy’ — teaming up to share courses and majors

The Hechinger Report

The number of degrees awarded in humanities disciplines has fallen 14 percent in the last 10 years , the American Academy of Arts and Sciences reports. Students walk to Shipman Library at Adrian College in Adrian, Michigan. Small liberal arts colleges are in particular trouble, suffering from a decline in interest in the humanities.

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How to Blend Learning with Play for a Kid-friendly Summer

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Being good at reading is not just about getting through a book, but remembering what you read, reporting on it to others, and transferring this information to other parts of life. Collect these into a digital library that kids can access online, see what friends are reading over the summer, and find books that appeal to them.

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The Best Quiz and Game Show Apps for Classrooms

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Students can use study sets that teachers assign, create their own, or use one from the content library, which, as you'd expect, isn't all top quality but does offer content to purchase from trusted providers like Kaplan. You can also use our site's search to browse our full library of reviews. Go to search.

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The mindboggling barriers that colleges create — and that end up hurting their own students

The Hechinger Report

Nancy Lee Sanchez, in red, executive director of the Kaplan Educational Foundation, with students she advises. Many students “could get an associate’s degree, but there’s something bureaucratic that’s standing in their way, like a parking fine, a library fine, they didn’t pay the graduation fee.”.

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A Welder of Digital Curriculum Companies Buys Its Latest

Edsurge

One of them will be a complementary addition to Weld North’s portfolio: Odysseyware , a library of online courses covering career and technical education along with K-12 subjects, often used for intervention and credit recovery. Company-reported user numbers are almost impossible to compare and should be taken with a grain of salt.

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October 24 - Ed Tech News, Our Weekly Podcast, and the Hack Education Roundup!

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

The Library 2.011 worldwide virtual conference starts in just over a week! And this week, the AAP released a new report, this time with more data, to back up those recommendations. A newly released report from Georgetown University''s Center on Education and the Workforce looks at the future of STEM-related jobs.

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2021:Year in pictures

The Hechinger Report

No matter who I talk to, they tell me: ‘This is the hardest year that I’ve ever had in education,’” one school leader told The Hechinger Report this fall. The Hechinger Report’s stories investigated the growing inequities, the deepening crises, the frustration and the divisions that made problems harder to solve. Then came 2021. “No

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