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Passionate About Second Language Acquisition: Meet Inkeri, English Teacher at 51Talk

EdNews Daily

51Talk is China’s leading online English education platform. The company’s mission is to make quality education accessible and affordable, and through an online platform. Can you tell us about your education background? My advocacy for second language and culture learning is reflected in my personal life.

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OPINION: Why Black student parents are at the epicenter of the student debt crisis — and what we can do about it

The Hechinger Report

When I graduated with a bachelor’s degree from William & Mary in 2003, I desperately needed a job. As the country undergoes a period of historic racial reckoning, with nearly every sector of society examining its role in racial injustice, higher education needs to do the same. In addition, I had $30,000 in student debt.

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Close the Achievement Gap: 5 Specific Strategies

EdNews Daily

In Closing the Achievement Gap: A Vision for Changing Beliefs and Practices (2003), Belinda Williams identified four needs of students. In many middle and high schools, an advisory or advocacy program is often included. Barbara Blackburn was named one of the Top 30 Global Gurus in Education in 2016, 2017, and 2018.

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One of the poorest cities in America was succeeding in an education turnaround. Is that now in peril?

The Hechinger Report

By many measures, schools here made big gains under Gordon and the ambitious 11-year effort to overhaul the education system that he helped create. The effects of poverty on education make further gains a daunting challenge. Bibb’s press spokesperson referred questions to Holly Trifiro, the city’s chief education officer.

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AI is the solution to costly and ineffective dyslexia programs

eSchool News

3 Advocacy groups, backed by dyslexia authorities at universities, have pushed for dyslexia legislation across the country with these outcomes: 4 40 states now mandate dyslexia screening, and more than 30 list approved screeners that schools must use. schools collectively spend over $120 billion a year on special education.

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Positive Behavior Supports Creating Meaningful Life Options for People with ASD

Digital Promise

Positive behavior support is defined by the partnership between the intervention agent and the family, whereby each educates the other about what is desirable, what is a priority and what is realistic. An intervention agent must help to hire and train babysitters, respite providers, in-home education service staff and job coaches.

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Universities increasingly turn to graduate programs to balance their books

The Hechinger Report

In addition to the academic demands, she and her friends acknowledged, they’re concerned about the cost of their graduate educations, the debt they may accumulate to pay for it and whether jobs will be available at the other end. Department of Education. Graduate education is being used to subsidize undergraduate education.

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