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OCTOBER 24, 2024

The study , which looked at a rich set of high school and college data in Texas, found that Black and Hispanic students and those in low-income families who lived more than 30 miles from a public two-year college were significantly less likely to attend college.

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OCTOBER 16, 2024

Teachers lack the structure and career development of other industry and professional jobs and this is important because it is one major factor in creating a broken public education system. Public school teachers are often limited geographically by pensions, so moving across state lines means forfeiting your hard-earned retirement benefits.

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MAY 8, 2024

EdSurge: What experiences laid the foundation for your role as a leader in STEM education in NYC Public Schools? Since 2015, CS4All has worked diligently to ensure that all public school students in New York City learn computer science, emphasizing students who identify as girls, Black and LatinX.

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MAY 20, 2022

This site provides thousands of digitized books, audio recordings, DVDs/CDs from the public domain (or out-of-copyright). Open Library is a curated list of over 20 million books (and growing) that are available worldwide to all age groups whether from the public domain or under copyright protections. Gutenberg Project. Open Library.

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JANUARY 9, 2023

Public schools are online just as much as their students, it seems, with profiles across social media. For instance, it is increasingly recognized that predictive policing companies regularly collect and utilize public social media data.”

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OCTOBER 25, 2024

Public schools reported having six teacher vacancies on average in August, based on responses to the School Pulse Panel by the National Center for Education Statistics. Nearly 1,400 public K-12 schools from across the country responded to the survey. Parsing education data into snack-sized servings.

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JULY 1, 2024

The lack of oversight for these alternatives means that curricula and rigor vary widely, and that students don’t experience some of the protections of public school. Even within a state, she added, the level of interest in non-public schools can vary, perhaps due to the available options. The school also seemed full of rich kids.

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JULY 19, 2024

It updated Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act, the law that requires state and local governments to supply equal opportunity — including in services like public schools, community colleges and public universities — for people with disabilities. Non-text content should have an equivalent text alternative.

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JUNE 30, 2024

Use Secure Networks The use of public Wi-Fi is one of the biggest security threats for average digital citizens, with the potential for leaks and malware seeping through to your system. Avoid accessing sensitive information, like banking apps, or email accounts while using public Wi-Fi networks.

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MAY 19, 2023

Gutenberg Project This site provides thousands of digitized books, audio recordings, DVDs/CDs from the public domain (or out-of-copyright). Open Library Open Library is a curated list of over 20 million books (and growing) that are available worldwide to all age groups whether from the public domain or under copyright protections.

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JULY 16, 2024

Students generally don’t pay the full cost of attendance at public universities, according to federal data from College Scorecard. Across 1,800 public colleges and universities, the average full-price cost of attendance clocked in about $17,300 per year. That includes tuition, fees, books, other supplies and living expenses.

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OCTOBER 18, 2022

Fair use/Public domain. Digital rights and responsibilities. Digital Passport. Digital rights—sharing info. Digital Search and Research. Fact Checking. Web Literacy for Students Fact Checker –a free online book. A Fair(y) Use Tale. Image Copyrights. Images—Free. Internet Hoaxes–Fact vs. Fake. Internet Safety. Lesson Plans. K-8 Curriculum.

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AUGUST 6, 2024

When the New York City Public Schools chancellor, David Banks, caused the largest district in the country to change how it taught students to read last year, it was with a sense of alarm. Public schools are particularly vulnerable to pressure, Cuban said on a call with EdSurge. It was announced by sweeping statements. The lesson?

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FEBRUARY 9, 2024

We dug further into data from the National Center for Education Statistics to find out how the rate of English learners enrolled in public schools has changed over time. That figure grew to nearly one-third of districts during the 2020-21 school year. Data visualization by Nadia Tamez-Robledo. That figure had been more than 1.4

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DECEMBER 14, 2023

Even though federal law requires states to provide public education to homeless students, delivering on this has proven troublesome. Monarch School, a public-private K-12 school, is an arrangement between the San Diego County Office of Education and a local nonprofit. A 2020 report for the U.S. But the objection is more sweeping.

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MAY 15, 2024

Building STEM Literacy at a Large Florida School District Broward County Public Schools is the sixth-largest school district in the United States, serving over 250,000 students across 326 schools and education centers in the Fort Lauderdale area. Many industry certification opportunities are tied to the courses.

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NOVEMBER 7, 2024

News literacy is fundamental to preparing students to become active, critically thinking members of our civic life — which should be one of the primary goals of a public education,” Kim Bowman, News Literacy Project senior research manager and author of the report, said in an email interview. “If

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APRIL 5, 2024

It’s discovering that some of your local school board members, who are supposed to support public education, are backed by political groups that want to destroy it. It’s hearing people say, “Public schools are failing!” It does mean that, similar to my dream, I need help creating a better system — all public school employees do.

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MARCH 27, 2024

Overall public school enrollment is expected to continue its incremental decline through 2040, notes education consulting firm McKinsey & Company, with urban districts bearing the brunt of it. “U.S. Many classmates and I all had to go to different classes."

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FEBRUARY 14, 2024

AI training from internet content Before generative AI’s were launched for public use, they had to be ‘trained’ by algorithms telling them how to access every bit of available internet content, copyrighted or not. Those lawsuits have started and opinions differ based on country and nuances of the situation.

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NOVEMBER 22, 2024

The chatbot interviewer is part of an experiment by two professors at the London School of Economics, who argue that AI could change the game when it comes to measuring public opinion in a variety of fields. “It It could really accelerate the pace of research,” says Xavier Jaravel, one of the professors leading the experiment.

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MARCH 29, 2024

Signups for the annual Raytheon Technologies Invention Convention US Nationals start March 29, 2024 (that’s today–publication day for this article). RTX Invention Convention U.S. Nationals 2024 will be held at The Henry Ford in Dearborn, MI on June 5-7, 2024.

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AUGUST 8, 2024

Nevertheless, according to the National Institute for Early Education Research (NIEER) State of Preschool 2023 Yearbook , in 2022-2023, more than 60 percent of pre-K children served were in public school settings, not private programs or home-based child care options.

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OCTOBER 4, 2023

When Mayra Valtierrez talks about the students in New Mexico public schools who are learning English, one thing becomes clear: It’s an incredibly diverse population. Parsing education data into snack-sized servings.

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OCTOBER 27, 2023

Best practices now suggest that instead of cocooning students, we teach them to be good digital citizens, confident and competent in 17 areas: Cyberbullying Digital citizenship Digital commerce Digital communication Digital footprint Digital law—plagiarism, copyrights, fair use, public domain Digital privacy Digital rights and responsibilities Digital (..)

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NOVEMBER 3, 2023

As a lecturer at the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs, where I teach econometrics and research methods, I spend a lot of time thinking about the intersection between data, education and social justice — and how generative AI will reshape the experience of gathering, analyzing and using data for change.

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MARCH 18, 2024

Since ChatGPT was released in November 2022 and exploded into public discourse, the emergence of generative AI tools has been met with both excitement and concern, across virtually every industry, ideology and age group. The fervor around AI was on full display at the SXSW EDU conference held in Austin, Texas, during the first week of March.

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NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Unlike North Carolina’s K-12 schools or community colleges, child care programs aren’t consolidated under a public system. In the weeks after Helene, Burke County Public Schools was able to provide classroom space for about 170 of those students on the campuses of Salem Elementary and Oak Hill Elementary.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Plurking, tweeting, and playing with your wiki in public are acceptable behaviors. Can you add to this list? You Know You’re a Techy Teacher When… You can’t remember the last time you printed a classroom document. Your Notebook isn’t spiral bound – it plugs into the wall.

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MAY 13, 2024

In partnership with researchers at Vanderbilt University, the Southern Regional Education Board (SREB), a nonprofit that works to improve public education across 16 states in the Southeast, has been examining the next generation’s interest in the teaching profession and has published their findings in a report released in April.

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JUNE 9, 2022

public speaking. In this class, take students through the six steps required to move from dream to publication: brainstorm. Start with a discussion on 1) the difference between an amateur and professional writer, 2) what it means to be ‘published’, and 3) publication options. analytical thinking. citizenship/ethics/etiquette.

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JULY 15, 2024

Read the Full Story: National Public Radio (5/11) –image credit to Deposit Photo Copyright ©2024 askatechteacher.com – All rights reserved. While typing offers efficiency, research suggests that the tactile process of handwriting engages the brain more deeply, fostering better comprehension and retention.

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OCTOBER 22, 2024

Spokane Public Schools issued a new districtwide policy that bans the use of smartphones or smartwatches in classrooms during instructional time. Adam Swinyard, the superintendent of Spokane Public Schools, acknowledges that there are trade-offs to the new ban when it comes to the use of tech in instruction. “We

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OCTOBER 11, 2022

Interesting move and wonder about use of student data from Brightbytes in the greater ecosystem of google products,” wrote edtech expert Jin-Soo Huh on Twitter, in one of the only public comments on the deal from the edtech industry. Google has silently acquired a widely-used K-12 data and analytics company.

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DECEMBER 12, 2022

In one Philadelphia-area public school district, a K-8 teacher recalled, “We had an online morning meeting every day, and still, nothing was said in that morning meeting. They’re not just glaringly missing from formal education research and policy decisions, but also limited to reductive stereotypes in common public understanding.

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MARCH 5, 2024

We had the first public school in the country, the first public library, and we’re committed to leading on early education and care. — We had the first public school in the country, the first public library,” Kershaw notes, “and we’re committed to leading on early education and care.” I feel hopeful.”

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MAY 23, 2023

To everyone else, though, those and many other scholarly publications are locked, or can only be read by paying hefty per-article fees. The typical open access model makes scholarly articles free to the public by charging authors a processing fee to have their work published in the journal. Now it's life of the author plus 70 years.

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