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School and Job Tips for Young Adults

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In the current economic climate, a solid education can serve as the launching pad for a rewarding career. While getting ready to take standardized tests in high school or after, prep courses can assist motivated candidates in achieving better scores. Your performance in that meeting is what gets or doesn’t get the job.

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Equity and Access in Math Education

ED Surge

Families with social and economic capital tend to provide their children with more educational tools and opportunities, including enrichment activities, access to technology and familiarity with the learning process. Although there are many causes for the achievement gap, one merits special scrutiny.

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International Women’s Day: Printable Resources

All About STEM

International Women’s Day is a global day celebrating the social, economic, cultural and political achievements of women. This year’s theme is #EmbraceEquity and all are invited on the 8th of March to get involved and forge a world that’s diverse, equal, equitable, and inclusive.

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A 5-Step Plan to Improve Professional Learning in Your School

ED Surge

Consider this five-step professional learning journey to ensure that your district professional learning experiences boost academic achievement and growth while building collective teacher efficacy. It could even be something more abstract but equally important, such as steadily increasing student satisfaction with school.

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Breaking Barriers to a Foundational Early Childhood Education

ED Surge

Mahajan, who was part of national leadership at the Self-Employed Women's Association , noted that her interest in early childhood education stemmed from the perspective of motherhood, through which she recognized the importance of quality childcare for women's labor force participation and economic empowerment.

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Should universities use differential treatment to admit students?

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However, Dr Emil Temnyalov , an economist at the University of Technology Sydney in Australia, highlights the effects of socio-economic influences on these scores. While these are the areas of economics commonly in the news, the field is so much broader than this. Stock markets, unemployment, inflation and recession?

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Does the way we fund scientific research benefit everyone equally?

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Does the way we fund scientific research benefit everyone equally? MARGINALISED GROUPS – people who are regularly excluded from certain aspects of society or ignored, which often results in them being disadvantaged economically and in other ways. WHAT ARE YOUR PROUDEST CAREER ACHIEVEMENTS, SO FAR, AND YOUR AMBITIONS FOR THE FUTURE?