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What Can You Do with an English Degree

Kyle Pace

Others find their niche in literary analysis, contributing to academic journals or publishing critical essays on literature and culture. Teaching English at the primary, secondary, or post-secondary level allows one to impart knowledge about literature and writing and inspire a new generation of thinkers and writers.

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Dual enrollment has exploded. But it’s hard to tell if it’s helping more kids get a college degree

The Hechinger Report

Map reprinted from The Postsecondary Outcomes of High School Dual Enrollment Students A National and State-by-State Analysis (October 2024) Community College Research Center. This is the most detailed and extensive analysis of dual enrollment that I’ve seen, covering all students in the nation, and tracking them for years after high school.

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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. A cost analysis of Reading Recovery and alternative interventions under the i3 Scale-Up.

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A Thinking Person’s Guide to EdTech News (2017 Week 38 Edition)

Doug Levin

" Tagged on: September 18, 2017 Too Much Technology in AR Elementary Schools? Tagged on: September 18, 2017 The NYPD Will Neither Confirm, Nor Deny, the Stories Behind This Story | WNYC → If you suspected that the cops spied on you, do you have the right to know about it?

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A Thinking Person’s Guide to EdTech News (2017 Week 38 Edition)

Doug Levin

" Tagged on: September 18, 2017 Too Much Technology in AR Elementary Schools? Tagged on: September 18, 2017 The NYPD Will Neither Confirm, Nor Deny, the Stories Behind This Story | WNYC → If you suspected that the cops spied on you, do you have the right to know about it?

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New data: Even within the same district some wealthy schools get millions more than poor ones

The Hechinger Report

U-46 was one of 53 districts across the United States that spent a statistically significant amount less state and local money on high-poverty schools than on lower-poverty schools, according to a new Hechinger Report analysis of how districts disburse funding. We are inequitable. And we are working on that.”

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A federal definition of ‘homeless’ leaves some kids out in the cold. One state is trying to help

The Hechinger Report

But beyond declaring that homeless children should have access to the same public education as other kids, the McKinney-Vento Act contained few protections for elementary and secondary students experiencing homelessness.