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American youth not dropouts, see the proof
Record Shares of Young Adults Have Finished Both High School and CollegeRecord shares of young adults are completing high school, going to college and finishing college, according to a Pew Research...
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How to employ neuroscientific research in education without damaging children
Neuroscience in educationIn the past ten years, there has been growing interest in applying our knowledge of the human brain to the field of education, including reading, learning, language, and...
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The future of college: MOOC?
Marketers Can Learn from the Boom in Online College ClassesMy New Year's resolution: take a MOOC. What is a MOOC? You'll be hearing more and more about them. They're Massive Online Open Courses....
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Why VC invested huge in education startup
Can Venture Capital Fix Our Dysfunctional Educational System?Venture capitalists are betting that technology will play a major role in fixing a broken U.S. educational system. Accel Partners, Spectrum...
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Geniuses on the future of higher ed: Disruption, chaos, and revolution
Eight Brilliant Minds on the Future of Online EducationThe advent of massively open online classes (MOOCs) is the single most important technological development of the millennium so far. Eric Hellweg...
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How to rescue higher education from collapse
Only Radical Thinking Will Make University Education AffordableThis week, according to the Chronicle of Higher Education, Steven G. Poskanzer and David R. Anderson, the presidents of Carleton College...
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Testing MOOCs: See massive open online courses examined
Measuring MOOC Success Continues to EvolveHow do you measure whether a Massive Open Online Course is actually doing anything when only a small percent of students ever completes the material? John...
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Is college just job preparation or brain training?
The Value of Higher Education is More Than Getting a JobLost amid the strident voices for higher education accountability and lower costs is the very real fact that we are on a dangerous trajectory...
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Boredom builds creativity in children
Children should be allowed to get bored, expert saysDr Teresa Belton told the BBC cultural expectations that children should be constantly active could hamper the development of their...
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Digital Public Library of America launches free knowledge to all, from the...
Free to All Some have detected a revolutionary message behind the choice of today as the date to launch the Digital Public Library of America—a project to make the holdings of libraries, archives, and...
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So many curation sites, how do you decide on one?
55 Content Curation Tools To Discover & Share Digital ContentDiscovering content is the easy part. Managing it all is the challenge. The gallery below by Shirley Williams is a strong collection of...
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More than 10 expectations students have of teachers
12 Things Kids Want from Their TeachersWhether you are a teacher, parent, relative, boss, or fellow community member, each of us has a chance to make a positive and impactful difference in a child’s...
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What number of K12 students are deprived of digital technology in the home?
Smartphones a Standard for Majority of Students by High School, Survey FindsA new nationwide survey reveals the extent to which mobile devices have become an inextricable part of students' and...
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Teachers reject robots as graders of student writing
English Teachers Reject Use of Robots to Grade Student WritingCritics of standardized tests argue that the written portion of those assessments can short-circuit the process of developing ideas in...
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Kicking questions to supercharge schools
Revising the questions that shape learningQuestions are powerful things. Socrates knew this. Einstein too. But curiosity has gotten a bad rep over the years. First there was that little incident with...
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Here is why children will be left behind without coding skills
Is Coding the New Second Language?Kids may know their way around a computer, but in order to get a job in the new economy, they will have to know how to write a program, not just use one. It’s first...
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New cutting edge research center to combine neuroscience and learning
New Centre to research science of learningUniversity of Melbourne education researchers will help shape the new Science of Learning Research Centre which will use scientific methods including...
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What you have to know to hook and engage eLearners
10 Thoughts On Engagement In eLearningThere was quite a debate within the Upside instructional design team about what constitutes Engagement in an eLearning module. When asked what engagement is, the...
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7 Brain areas to stimulate and boost learning
7 Things Teachers Need to Know about the Relation between The Brain and Learning Effective teaching is not only about mastering the content area one teaches but it goes beyond that to knowing the...
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How do you know when your country's education is screwed?
Priorities I am daily appalled by our nation's indifference towards education and fascination with triviality. The United States was founded on enlightened principles of educated minds, but somehow in...
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