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Celebrating ConnectED’s Achievements Toward Transforming Education

Digital Promise

Since 2005, LCPS had participated in the Geospatial Semester program through James Madison University, which taught GIS to hundreds of high school seniors (and even juniors) through a project-based approach. Esri will maintain and expand these resources for at least the next three years. Safari Books. Read more about Safari Books’ work.

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Maker Programs Strive to Reach All Students

Educator Innovator

Kids tinkering with sewing machines or laser cutters, designing their own cookie cutters to “print” in a 3D-printer at libraries, museums, maker camps, or classrooms across the country. It’s a particularly good way to teach creative problem-solving in the STEM subjects—science, technology, engineering, and mathematics.

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Learning Revolution Free PD - GlobalEdCon Details! - What Is Success? - Library 2.014 Submission Deadline Approaches

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

We also highlight good conversations about learning taking place between educators, learners, leaders, and others from the school, library, museum, work, adult, online, non-traditional and home learning worlds. Our vision is to build sustainable libraries and support their custodians and advocates — librarians.

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Carnegie Learning Gets a Makeover After Private Equity Investment

Edsurge

These include: EMC School , a developer of language-learning materials; Paradigm Education Solutions , a suite of print and digital materials for healthcare and computer software literacy (think Excel and Quickbooks); and JIST Career Solutions , a library of career and life-coaching workbooks and videos.

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Native Americans turn to charter schools to reclaim their kids’ education

The Hechinger Report

NACA was born out of an urgent need to reimagine education for Indigenous youth: In 2005, three quarters of Native American students graduated on time in the Albuquerque school district, compared to 87 percent of all students, according to state data. Related: 3 Native American women head to college in the pandemic.

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How one city has been tackling the swelling scourge of brain drain

The Hechinger Report

Many American states are struggling to stem a growing exodus of high school graduates who leave to go to other states for college, for example; once that happens, according to research in one largely rural state, a third don’t come back. It’s to universities and colleges that many states have mostly turned to stem this flow.

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Held back, but not helped

The Hechinger Report

Most students lost months or even years of school time after Katrina hit in 2005. But they have much better tools than they did in 2005 when the retention policy was put into place,” he said. Related: An urban charter school achieves a fivefold increase in the percentage of its black and Latino graduates who major in STEM.

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