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The Secret to Learning Any New Language May Be Your Motivation

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A startup with offices in New York and São Paulo, Brazil, the company has raised millions of dollars for its adaptive software designed to teach English to people who want to learn it for work. It starts with videos that immerse users in English using simple phrases, like name introductions. that offer the product to their employees.

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How to Make Education Research Relevant to Teachers

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For starters, many teachers view research as a search for bright shiny objects pushed by administrators without adequate attention to the needs and skills of teachers. Regional education laboratories: $55,423,000. We’ve found many potholes as we work to shorten the last mile between IES and teachers. Statistics: $109,500,000.

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10 Great Virtual Reality Apps

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Lessons are delivered via headset including points of interest that dynamically attract student attention. Google has partnered with leading museums, universities, laboratories, and publishers to develop more than 1,000 VR (and AR) tours. Students move at their own pace, navigating the lesson with simple hand gestures. CoSpaces Edu.

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Computer science courses still a rarity in California

eSchool News

Students are almost 20 times as likely to take Advanced Placement English language or literature as they are to take AP computer science. Educators point to other barriers as well: During the last decade, the federal No Child Left Behind standards focused attention on core academic subjects such as math and English.

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Pioneering a Future Where Education Meets Innovation

k12 Digest

Equipped laboratories, including Fab Labs and 3D printing facilities, enhance hands-on learning. English proficiency is emphasized as a critical asset in many industries, while additional language offerings such as Chinese and French open doors to global opportunities. The companys initiatives reflect this vision.

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How ‘Learning Engineering’ Hopes to Speed Up Education

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More than 4 out of 10 college students wind up in remedial math or English courses, and those that do are even less likely than other students to finish college. He co-founded the company in 1999 with Maria Machado, who also got her start in the semiconductor industry before turning her attention to education.

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As New England Liberal Arts Colleges Struggle Financially, One Pins Hopes on Health Care Majors

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It also cut five majors, including English, which got the liberal arts institution some attention. The school, which was once a women’s junior college and is now coed, laid off seven professors —10 percent of the faculty—and 11 other employees in 2016 due to a $2.6 million projected operating loss.

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