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To Retain College Students, Look to Academic Support and Campus Activities, New Report Finds

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A new report on the effects college programs have on student retention attempts to answer that question. For its new report, Civitas dug into the data it helps colleges collect on students’ daily activities to figure out which programs most correlate with better retention from year to year.

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Data science under fire: What math do high schoolers really need?

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Credit: Javeria Salman/The Hechinger Report Across town, students in Ruben Jacquez’s class at Rio Mesa High School use coding software to compile and clean data they’ve collected on student stress levels. Nicolas Garcia, a senior at Adolfo Camarillo High School, analyzes data that he gathered on his cellphone use during the school day.

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PROOF POINTS: Survey reveals stark rich-poor divide in how U.S. children were taught remotely during the spring school closures

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Twenty-five percent of districts said children in kindergarten through second grade were supposed to receive more than three hours of remote instruction every day but another 25 percent of districts reported only one hour or less. children were taught remotely during the spring school closures appeared first on The Hechinger Report.

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Amazon Taps Stanford Professor, Candace Thille to Lead Internal Professional Learning

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As first reported by Inside Higher Ed, Candace Thille, an assistant professor of education at Stanford University’s Graduate School of Education, will be working for Amazon as the company’s Director of Learning Science and Engineering. That’s a problem, she argues, as these tools increasingly inform the decisions that instructors make.

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Top 10 Digital Tools for the Classroom

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As more and more teachers, students, and stakeholders experiment with technology, software developers are working day and night to bring them quality solutions. However, despite having so many options, users show a clear bias towards some platforms, software, or apps (read, digital tools) that they consider more user-friendly than others.

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As diagnoses rise, more colleges add services for students with autism

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Photo: Eric England for The Hechinger Report. Photo: Eric England for The Hechinger Report. Photo: Eric England for The Hechinger Report. They’ll meet you halfway,” said Uri, who is now a software engineer at Microsoft. Photo: Eric England for The Hechinger Report. “We Photo: Eric England for The Hechinger Report.

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How to Build a High-Functioning Remote Team for Your Edtech Company

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Employees report higher productivity , greater efficiency and less stress , while companies can benefit from lower real estate costs and an expanded talent pool. We primarily used Craigslist for all hires except sales and software development. days each week. But building an effective remote team isn’t as simple as flipping a switch.

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