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Top STEM Schools in Georgia Host High-Tech Personalized Classes Without Hours of Screentime

Edsurge

It got the students engaged and doing something as opposed to saying, ‘Well I can’t do that because I don’t have an autoclave.’. Marc Pedersen Paulding County High School Students At Paulding County High School in Dallas, Georgia, science classes are messy and alive. Instead, their students do lots of hands-on work.

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OPINION: Time to stop weeding out first- and second-year STEM students and ending careers before they begin

The Hechinger Report

Principles of Organic Chemistry and other aptly named “weed-out” courses can raise the blood pressure of first- and second-year STEM students to new highs. These are courses college students must pass to become candidates for a degree in a STEM major.

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Colleges welcome first-year students by getting them thinking about jobs

The Hechinger Report

Students don’t know that they need to do these things, and the more we can stitch that into their core college experience, the better.”. Liberal arts institutions especially have to prepare our students with these skill sets to be competitive [job] candidates.”. Students need time to learn and explore, they say.

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From Personalized Math to Micro-Schools, This NewSchools Cohort Is Reimagining Learning

Edsurge

Today, NewSchools and Transcend released a case study that looks at the first Collaborative. EdSurge talked to Benson about some of the findings in that study. They had already begun a process of designing a new middle school, called Nexus Middle School, to be a STEM-based school that incorporated personalized learning.

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