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+16 +2Teaching Isn’t About Managing Behavior
It’s about reaching students where they really are.
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+4 +1Schools Beat Earlier Plagues With Outdoor Classes. We Should, Too.
A century ago, children in New York City attended classes during a pandemic. It seemed to work.
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+14 +3Brilliant | Learn to think
Brilliant - Build quantitative skills in math, science, and computer science with fun and challenging interactive explorations.
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+23 +9How Many Sick Children and Teachers Are Worth It? What About Dead Ones?
The Trump administration is leaving parents and school districts with an impossible decision this fall.
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+15 +2Trump’s sudden reversal on student visas will be felt in Silicon Valley
Growing up in the Philippines, Andreia Carrillo always liked the stars. It’s what brought her to the United States to study astronomy, and why she wants others to follow in her footsteps and study the stars. “Though, we’ll see if that happens now,” Carrillo said.
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+4 +1Colleges Face Rising Revolt by Professors
Most universities plan to bring students back to campus. But many of their teachers are concerned about joining them.
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+2 +1'Uncharted territory': National Spelling Bee ends in historic eight-way tie
The Scripps National Spelling Bee ended in a historic eight-way tie when the final octet of contenders fielded everything the dictionary threw at them
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+20 +3Blackballed by PayPal, Scientific-Paper Pirate Takes Bitcoin Donations
Bitcoin as a censorship-free money has been used by outlaws of all sorts, but this time the outlaw is a young scientist from Kazakhstan breaking through the paywalls of academic journals. Alexandra Elbakyan, a 31-year-old freelance coder, neurobiologist and phylologist, is running a database of over 80 million articles from academic journals that are normally available only through subscriptions.
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+3 +1Opinion | Why I Created a Book Club for Fifth Graders
During the coronavirus lockdown, a fifth-grade teacher, Linda, contacted me asking for help. She teaches in a school district in Southern California where over 80 percent of the students qualify for free lunches. Linda was struggling with students’ not showing up for online class. “Before the lockdown, I had started reading ‘It Ain’t So Awful, Falafel,’ so I thought of asking if you have any ideas,” she said. “The kids all related to your story about being an immigrant and having to translate for your mom.”
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+4 +1New program will train more Black men to become Indianapolis preschool teachers
After teaching preschool-12 for more than 20 years, Kahlil Mwaafrika said he’s used to being an anomaly in urban Indianapolis schools. As an adjunct professor of early childhood education at IUPUI, only a handful of his hundreds of students are Black men. “There’s very few people who look like me in buildings,” he said.
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+18 +1Google's Wing Drones to Drop Off Library Books for Kids
Google's Wing drones will begin delivering library books to kids in Christiansburg, Virginia, where it has been testing the service for meals and other items.
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+4 +1Why ‘Uncomfortable’ Books Like ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ Are Precisely the Ones Kids Should be Reading
We’re not going to learn anything if we skip over important pieces of history and avoid challenging literature merely because it might make people “uncomfortable”
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+20 +6The Nightmare That Colleges Face This Fall
University presidents are scrambling for answers on everything from on-campus housing to revenue-generating sports.
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+10 +2Why smart people believe coronavirus myths
From students to politicians, many smart people have fallen for dangerous lies spread about the new coronavirus. Why? And how can you protect yourself from misinformation?
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+4 +1Students Think College Board Is Running a Reddit Sting to Catch AP Test Cheaters
Conspiracy theories swirl as high-schoolers struggle with taking exams at home for the first time in history.
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+19 +5Doggy diploma: Therapy dog to receive honorary degree from Virginia Tech
This dog is more than just a good boy -- he’s an honorary doctor of veterinary medicine.
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+16 +2Students Won't Pay $70K on Online Zoom Classes; Here's Why
Coronavirus pandemic has caused a lot of changes for the past months. One of that is with the educational system around the world. Since all students are prohibited from going outside and socializing, it all boils down to online classes. Zoom app, particularly, became the alternative platform of education. However, students in America think that paying the same amount of tuition to online classes is not worth it after all. Here's why.
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+8 +1Princeton names its first black valedictorian in the university's history
Princeton University has named its first black valedictorian in the school's 274-year history. Nicholas Johnson, a Canadian student majoring in operations research and financial engineering, has been named valedictorian of Princeton's Class of 2020, the university announced in a news release.
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+25 +3How 13 Seconds Changed Kent State University Forever
The institution took decades to come to grips with the trauma of the killing of four students 50 years ago
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+26 +7Google Meet premium video conferencing—free for everyone
Technology that connects us while we're apart helps keep us safe and productive. Over the past few months, we’ve seen the power of video meetings bring us together—whether we’re working with teammates, talking to healthcare professionals, sharing with loved ones, or learning from home.
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