Category: Good Read
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The Colorado Paradox (the Atlantic)
A review of the state of education in the state… ================ DENVER— Colorado businesses are enjoying a robust recovery from the recession. Good jobs and great quality of life are luring college graduates to the state. But Colorado’s own students are at a disadvantage. By 2020, three-quarters of Colorado’s jobs are likely to require some…
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Fostering Social and Emotional Learning Through Technology
Can technology effectively facilitate the development of competencies and character qualities, in addition to cognitive skills? If yes, what are the opportunities to capture to make it happen? What are the immediate, mid-term, and long-term barriers to remove? How can multistakeholders work together to create a roadmap for this vision? The New Vision for Education…
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NMC Horizon Report > 2016 Higher Ed Edition
The Horizon Report is an an ongoing research project designed to identify and describe emerging technologies likely to have an impact on learning, teaching, and creative inquiry in higher education. The report is crowdsourced annually by the New Media Consortium (NMC) and EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative (ELI) – calling upon an international cohort of expert panelists in…
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NCES Report | Most New Teachers Stay in the Classroom
October 27, 2015 | By Guneev Sharma & Kristin McCabe A new study out of the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) helps debunk the oft-repeated assumption that half of new teachers leave the profession in the first 5 years. Overall, some 77% of participants in the Beginning Teacher Longitudinal Study continued teaching for 5…
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TNTP Blog: A Two Percent Cap on Testing Misses the Point
October 26, 2015 | By Kelly Zunkiewicz Isabel is a senior at Lennard High School in Hillsborough County Public Schools, and a member of my AP Calculus AB course. In the process of writing her a recommendation letter, I reviewed her student summary: a list of her scores on all the district, state, and national…
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The Kitchen Community Appoints Former Teach For America Executive Sean VanBerschot as President
The Kitchen Community CEO and Co-Founder Kimbal Musk today announced changes to the organization’s executive team to further support rapid expansion of Learning Gardens in schools across the United States. Sean VanBerschot is now President of TKC. He will join Kimbal in continuing to build strategic relationships, funding partners and community engagement while focusing on…
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Dr. Ritu Chopra & PARA2 Center Featured in Education Week!
To view this article on the Education Week webpage, please click here. Training Gains a Toehold for Instructional Aides in Special Education By Christina A. Samuels By the hundreds of thousands, the instructional aides known as paraeducators, paraprofessionals, or simply “paras” help enable students with disabilities to take part in the general education classroom through…
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The MicroMaster's Degree
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