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Are Personal Learning Networks the Key to Keeping Teachers?

Edsurge

In a recent National Education Association survey of roughly 3,600 educators, more than half indicated that they were likely to leave or retire from education sooner than planned because of the pandemic. The program is designed to support innovative elementary and secondary school teachers across the U.S.

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4 lessons learned about AI in 2023

eSchool News

Students needed devices to learn in remote settings, so most schools that weren’t 1:1 before the pandemic became it almost overnight. Recent survey data shows that 90 percent of secondary students are part of a 1:1 device program. The COVID-19 pandemic accelerated every school’s device program.

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Top School & District Innovator Awardees 2019

EdNews Daily

The Learning Counsel, a leading education research institute and news media hub, announced this year’s National Digital Transition Survey Award winners at its 2019 National Gathering held in Dallas, TX. Four different categories of proficiency were celebrated in the National Digital Transition Survey Awards.

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There Are 700K+ Credentials — and Counting. Which Ones Are ‘Quality’?

Edsurge

Credential Engine hopes its database will eventually help people discern which credentials offer the most value for personal learning and employment opportunities. Credential Engine is surveying the landscape first, trying to develop a comprehensive dataset before coming to any particular conclusions. “We

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Supporting students: What’s next for mental health

The Hechinger Report

88 percent of college students polled in a January 2022 survey by TimelyMD, a higher ed telehealth provider, said there’s a mental health crisis at colleges and universities in the United States. There are also increased efforts to find solutions. Connecticut, meanwhile, permits K-12 students to take two mental health days per year.

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Educators Don’t Agree on What Whole Child Education Means. Here’s Why It Matters.

Edsurge

Serving the whole child is seen as a secondary objective without a clear and direct relationship to student success. Learn more about this EdSurge Research project. But she teaches in a system where parental expectation and community norms see academic achievement as the ultimate goal of instruction. It’s a nice-to-have.

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Data That Educators Need to Reopen Schools Isn’t Coming. So They’re Collecting It Themselves.

Edsurge

Called the COVID-19 School Response Dashboard , it asks elementary and secondary schools and districts throughout the U.S. to report confirmed and suspected cases of COVID-19 among their students and staff who are learning and teaching in person this fall. That’s an option not all educators have had during the pandemic, though.

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