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Tic Tack Toe in the Blended Classroom

A Principal's Reflections

A secondary goal has been facilitating a transition from blended instruction to blended learning. Costa & Kallick (2008) share why reflection is a critical component of the learning process: Reflection has many facets. For example, reflecting on work enhances its meaning.

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Tracking college closures

The Hechinger Report

Readers can search through the archive of colleges that have closed since 2008 , and we will update it periodically with the latest shutdowns. Nearly 300 colleges and universities offering an associate degree or higher closed between 2008 and 2023. The numbers are staggering.

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Dave Burgess Talks Student Engagement #MondayMotivation #tlap

The CoolCatTeacher

he was awarded the BAMMY for Secondary School Teacher of the Year by the Academy of Education Arts and Sciences. As a teacher in San Diego, California, he was a 2001 and 2012 Golden Apple winner in the Grossmont Union High School District and the 2007-2008 Teacher of the Year at West Hills High School.

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COVID-19 Has Widened the Skills Gap. But It Also Presents an Opportunity to Close It.

Edsurge

In 2008, it was global experience. And it appears that investing in last-mile training has a secondary benefit: higher retention. It is top of mind for CEOs; the percentage of them who are “extremely” or “somewhat” concerned about lack of available talent increased from 56 percent in 2011 to 79 percent in 2019.

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COVID-19’s Long-Term Impacts on Education in 2020 and Beyond

Edsurge

Secondary teacher positions are harder to fill than elementary ones; as are science and math openings. Just as it did during the 2008 recession, the government should extend the Pell Grant program by temporarily extending it to cover non-degree programs—something that’s currently under discussion. Mark Warner (D-Va.),

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The Past Decade Forecasts a New Wave of Economic Opportunity in Education

Edsurge

Our primary and secondary education systems formed around teachers imparting knowledge. From 2008 to 2019 we have witnessed a 4,000-plus percent expansion in the number of funded edtech startups, and the best startups can become unicorns. To date, our education systems sit atop a cultural assumption—that information is scarce.

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Many kids can’t read, even in high school. Is the solution teaching reading in every class?

The Hechinger Report

Yet, by the time students graduate, he said, the goal at the secondary school is that they have “reading levels ready for college.” Many students struggle at the secondary level with decoding, typically multisyllabic words, so those longer words that they’re encountering in science text, for example, or in social studies text,” Wexler said.

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