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From Testing to Transformational Change with Pam Moran

The CoolCatTeacher

So you wouldn’t find, for example, with technology — Albemarle has been in a one-to-one environment for a number of years now, as has Charlottesville City. They flipped to one-to-one sometime around 2002. We have districts that have all the resources in the world, and we have districts that are really challenged.

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Here’s How Head Start Parents Are Building Careers As Early Childhood Educators

Edsurge

Yasmina Vinci, the executive director of the National Head Start Association, an advocacy and professional support organization for Head Start explains that Head Start’s mission has always been to “to give everyone in the family an education mindset.” To do that, Head Start programs works with families as much as children.

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Even as women outpace men in graduating from college, their earnings remain stuck

The Hechinger Report

Women still earn 82 cents, on average, for every dollar earned by men , Pew reports — a figure nearly unchanged since 2002. Related: MIT, Yale and other elite colleges are finally reaching out to rural students “The technology was there. The issue was who was motivated to ask the question.

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

The Hechinger Report

The first autism support program in the United States began at Marshall University in West Virginia in 2002. Wagner graduated in the spring and transferred to a BFA program at DigiPen Institute of Technology. The university also pairs Mosaic students with other UTC undergraduates who take a class about autism and advocacy.

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‘The Truth Is, I Love the Work’

Edsurge

I interviewed five women — all Central American immigrants — in Spanish, and with support from Early Edge California , a statewide policy and advocacy organization I interned for, I paid each participant a stipend for their time. Leticia Martinez Leticia Martinez immigrated to Los Angeles from Mexico in 2002 with her three daughters.

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The community college “segregation machine”

The Hechinger Report

The California Acceleration Project, an advocacy group founded by faculty, reported that pass rates for underprepared students at Cuyamaca in college-level math jumped to 67 percent last year, up from 10 percent the year before. Diana Solares was aiming for a bachelor’s degree when she graduated from high school in San Diego in 2002.

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Impero Software Announces New Version of its Flagship Product ? Impero Education Pro ? at ISTE 2018

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“We are always looking for ways to improve upon Impero Education Pro’s functionality so that teachers, IT departments and administrators have an even better experience when using technology in their classrooms and buildings” said Richard Fuller, Impero CEO. “We Founded in 2002, Impero software is now accessed by over 1.5