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30Apr

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Have an Emergency Plan for Disasters

Have an Emergency Plan for Disasters[unable to retrieve full-text content]Every minute counts during a disaster – plan now so you’re prepared. Know the risks about the different disasters and hazards that could affect you and your family where you live, work, and go to school.Published at Mon, 16 Mar 2020 19:14:25 +0000 Article source: https://www.usa.gov/features/have-an-emergency-plan-for-disasters

I’m A Parent – What Should I Be Doing While My Child Applies To Colleges?

29Apr

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I’m A Parent – What Should I Be Doing While My Child Applies To Colleges?

I’m A Parent – What Should I Be Doing While My Child Applies To Colleges?Parents may be watching as your child gets ready to fly the nest, but there’s still more for you to do first! Provide support without taking over. It can be hard for parents to let students take the lead during college applications, but it’s crucial. You can – and should – be a cheerleader for your child, you can offer advice and help, but your role is that of an assistant, not a manager. Your child should take the lead, with you staying at the periphery. Check in to help your child stay on track. It’s a good idea to schedule regular check-ins, whether it be once a week or once a month. Your child can come to you with issues at any time, but regular check-ins allow you to gauge their mental state, any concerns they h...

Online Schools Are Here to Stay, Even After the Pandemic

29Apr

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Online Schools Are Here to Stay, Even After the Pandemic

Online Schools Are Here to Stay, Even After the Pandemic To hear more audio stories from publishers like The New York Times, download Audm for iPhone or Android. Rory Levin, a sixth grader in Bloomington, Minn., used to hate going to school. He has a health condition that often makes him feel apprehensive around other students. Taking special-education classes did little to ease his anxiety. So when his district created a stand-alone digital-only program, Bloomington Online School, last year for the pandemic, Rory opted to try it. Now the 11-year-old is enjoying school for the first time, said his mother, Lisa Levin. He loves the live video classes and has made friends with other online students, she said. In December, Bloomington Public Schools decided to keep running the online school e...

29Apr

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Bridging the Gap Between Curriculum and Career

Bridging the Gap Between Curriculum and CareerStudents don’t graduate for many reasons, but one critical reason, within an institution’s power to change, is that students don’t see a connection between their studies and a possible career. Way too often higher education relegates career preparation to select majors, separate classes, and special offices on campus. But breaking down these barriers helps all students succeed. Unfortunately, many campuses have created an artificial and increasingly damaging divide between subject-matter learning in the classroom, and learning designated as career-relevant. In part, this divide has arisen because “career-ready” has become a false synonym for technical learning or skills, rather than the development of skills most often associated with successf...

29Apr

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OPINION: We need more teachers of color. Getting there requires ambitious equitable solutions

OPINION: We need more teachers of color. Getting there requires ambitious equitable solutionsWhen Marie Lewis applied to the Nashville Teacher Residency (NTR), she was earning $18,000 per year as a paraprofessional, supporting students with special needs, one-on-one or in small groups. To make ends meet, she also worked over the summers and during school breaks at a child care center, earning $10.25 per hour. A single Black mother of two, Marie loved children and knew she wanted to be a teacher, but couldn’t afford to pay for a licensure program, which can cost $30,000 or more at local universities for a degree and license. Lewis loved the work and the difference she felt she could make in children’s lives, but the way things were going, neither her dreams nor her potential were going to...

The Pursuit of Education: A Story of Homelessness, Perseverance, and the Impact of Caring Educators

29Apr

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The Pursuit of Education: A Story of Homelessness, Perseverance, and the Impact of Caring Educators

The Pursuit of Education: A Story of Homelessness, Perseverance, and the Impact of Caring Educators By: Jahnee S. I was 8 years old when I first experienced homelessness. Homelessness then became a struggle that my family and I couldn’t escape. I experienced standing in the snow, hoping my family and I had a place to sleep on a church floor; how packed and unsanitary emergency shelters are, as I got lice within two days of staying there; how “The Florida Project” brought me flashbacks to the many months my family lived in motels, and how I viewed peers with “the basic necessities” with such envy. Constantly moving and being disappointed led me to become extremely detached and avoid relationships of any kind out of fear of abandonment. Eight years later, at 16 years old, I was still experie...

Why a new higher education review is a waste of time

29Apr

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Why a new higher education review is a waste of time

Why a new higher education review is a waste of timeINDIA In the first 100 days of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s second administration, the government has launched yet another rethink of higher education policies and priorities through the draft National Education Policy (NEP) and the Education Quality Upgradation and Inclusion Programme (EQUIP).This is the latest, and seemingly one of the most elaborate, of an endless series of official reports and programmes aimed at improving higher education in the post-independence period.These documents – the first of which was the Radhakrishnan Commission of 1949, continuing with the national education policies of 1968 and 1986, the Yashpal Committee of 2009, the National Knowledge Commission in 2007, and most recently the draft NEP of 20...

Student Demand: The Critical Metric for Program Investment Decisions

29Apr

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Student Demand: The Critical Metric for Program Investment Decisions

Student Demand: The Critical Metric for Program Investment Decisions In the face of financial shortfalls, many schools make a fundamental error: they focus on employment data to find new programs or current programs to grow. Unfortunately, there is a very limited relationship between employer needs and program margins. Focus on Student Demand to Increase Margins If you need to grow and increase margins, focus on student demand–it is students who fill seats and pay tuition. Our analysis, illustrated below, shows that student demand is four times better than employment in predicting potential margins for current or new programs. Let’s look at the data behind these claims, which was drawn from actual program markets and margins. Gray ran analytics to see which market factors bes...

Why learning isn’t the most important thing kids lost during the pandemic

29Apr

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Why learning isn’t the most important thing kids lost during the pandemic

Why learning isn’t the most important thing kids lost during the pandemicThe last 12 months have been a furious, unrelenting assault on the senses. In March 2020, in what seemed like the blink of an eye, the in-person school year was first suspended, and then abruptly canceled. Many children from historically marginalized communities simply failed to appear online, their absence pointing to enduring, systemic inequities in our school systems. Only a few months later, as our collective sense of dislocation grew increasingly taut and unbearable, George Floyd was killed in Minnesota, setting off months of some of the largest protests in U.S. history. Published at Fri, 23 Apr 2021 18:55:03 +0000 Article source: https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2021/04/23/why-learning-isnt-most-imp...

28Apr

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The College Applicant Resume

The College Applicant ResumeWhat Does a College Applicant Need to Include in Their Resume? If you think resumes are only for job applications, it’s time to think again. A resume is an ideal medium to clearly and concisely present what you’ve accomplished throughout your high school career. Consequently, many students choose to include a resume when applying to college or when requesting letters of recommendation from teachers and counselors. Creating and maintaining a resume is an excellent college prep task, but applicants may be unclear about what they should include in this important document. Keep reading for our top tips for creating a resume that will help you stand out during the college admissions process. Spotlight Extracurricular Activities Your resume is an ideal format for hi...

Does It Hurt Children to Measure Pandemic Learning Loss?

28Apr

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Does It Hurt Children to Measure Pandemic Learning Loss?

Does It Hurt Children to Measure Pandemic Learning Loss? Over the past year, Deprece Bonilla, a mother of five in Oakland, Calif., has gotten creative about helping her children thrive in a world largely mediated by screens. She signed them up for online phonics tutoring and virtual martial arts lessons. If they are distracted inside the family’s duplex, she grabs snacks and goes with the children into the car, saying they cannot come out until their homework is done. She has sometimes spent three hours per day assisting with school assignments, even as she works from home for a local nonprofit organization. It all sometimes feels like too much to bear. Still, when her fifth-grade son’s public-school teacher told her he was years behind in reading, she was in disbelief. “That was very off...

Quality doctoral programmes are vital for development

28Apr

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Quality doctoral programmes are vital for development

Quality doctoral programmes are vital for developmentGHANA Ghana’s National Accreditation Board was established in 1993 by the government of Ghana for four primary purposes.One is giving official quality approval to both public and private tertiary education institutions in terms of curricula content and standards of academic programmes.Two, it constantly monitors tertiary education institutions to ensure compliance with normative standards and ethics of organisation, governance, academic and administrative leadership.Three, it ensures that education institutions satisfy appropriate standards in physical facilities such as classrooms, laboratories, academic and professional staffing.Four, it determines the equivalence of degrees, diplomas and certificates awarded by institutions inside ...

Supporting First-Generation and Low-Income Students Beyond the College Acceptance Letter

28Apr

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Supporting First-Generation and Low-Income Students Beyond the College Acceptance Letter

Supporting First-Generation and Low-Income Students Beyond the College Acceptance Letter Over the past year, the COVID-19 pandemic demonstrated that pursuing a college education is not just about getting accepted and enrolling in a college. First-generation and low-income college students were burdened with the struggle to pay expensive college fees for a virtual education while being separated from on-campus resources and in-person support from students and faculty. For first-generation and low-income college students, being accepted into a college is a major accomplishment that opens the door to numerous possibilities, such as having higher average salaries and healthier lifestyles. However, there needs to be more support for first-generation and low-income students throughout college, n...

Higher Education: Are You Ready for the Economic Boom?

28Apr

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Higher Education: Are You Ready for the Economic Boom?

Higher Education: Are You Ready for the Economic Boom? We have a great deal to be optimistic about in higher education. For one, most state budgets didn’t fall much and the federal government just gave them billion dollar booster shots. The U.S. economy is poised for a boom, led by federal spending and pent-up consumer demand. Optimistic Outlook for Higher Education Neil Irwin of the New York Times inspired this optimism with his article “17 Reasons to Let the Economic Optimism Begin.” He describes past recessions that gave us every right to be skittish about recoveries. “… a mild recession was followed by a weak recovery followed by a financial crisis followed by another weak recovery followed by a pandemic-induced collapse…an economy in which a persistently weak job market has...

28Apr

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The Invisible Minority in STEM

The Invisible Minority in STEM Graduate school is never easy, but as I neared the end of my first year, my Ph.D. training was about to get much harder. It wasn’t that the classes or research were any different. I had simply come to recognize the truth about myself: I was nonbinary, a gender identity sometimes falling under the transgender umbrella. Excited to finally express my true self, I came out to my colleagues and began to pursue my transition. Here I will share some lessons from my own experience as a transgender STEM Ph.D. student in an effort to show other transgender and gender-nonconforming students that they are not alone, as well as to demonstrate ways in which school administrators, faculty and mentors can be better allies and promote the success of transgender students. One ...