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Building a culture of academic integrity in a remote learning environment

Neo LMS

At Kansas State University, academic integrity violations jumped from 97 cases in the 2019 fall semester to 238 cases in the online-only 2020 spring semester. At University in Florida, compared to the 2019 spring semester, academic integrity violations increased by 65% in the 2020 semester.

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Is a Backpack the Key to Closing the Homework Gap?

EdTech Magazine

Thu, 08/15/2019 - 13:15. In addition to extra homework time, offering Wi-Fi during students’ rides might also provide some secondary benefits. Is a Backpack the Key to Closing the Homework Gap? eli.zimmerman_9856. In March, a bipartisan group of U.S. by Erin Brereton.

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Announcing the 2021-2022 League of Innovative Schools Cohort

Digital Promise

In California, College Connect is Rowland Unified School District’s solution to making college and post-secondary pathways more equitable for every student. Similarly, during the 2019-2020 school year, San Antonio Union School District (California) created the first-ever student board member position. And the exemplars continue.

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

Edsurge

When the unemployment rate spiked during the spring of 2020, jobs that required a college degree declined more than those that didn’t, and new college graduates were hit the hardest. And it appears that investing in last-mile training has a secondary benefit: higher retention. With two-thirds of U.S. In 2008, it was global experience.

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COLUMN: Helping middle schoolers think about a future beyond the pandemic

The Hechinger Report

We made a conscious decision to make the sixth-grade experience one where we expose children to everything,” said Rick Doss, the district’s director of secondary education. A recent report found Indiana’s rates at their lowest in recent history. They also believe imagining the future might help students cope better with the present. “We

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8 Ways to Help New Teachers Thrive (and Veteran Teachers Too!)

The CoolCatTeacher

I was inspired to write this post because of the soon to be released episode 536 (to be released on August 5, 2019 ), where a third-year teacher, Edwin Thomas Minguela, and I talk about the lessons he’s learned in his first two years of teaching. K., & Bruegmann, E. We can help new teachers and each other thrive. 24) Jackson, C.

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Rural students often go unnoticed by colleges. Can virtual counseling put them on the map?

The Hechinger Report

The school has two full-time school counselors, but in 2012 laid off a staffer whose sole focus was guiding students to college or other post-secondary options. The shelves were once full of materials about colleges and scholarships as well as other post-secondary options, but the school laid off the center’s staffer amid budget cuts in 2012.

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