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ProEd Global School: Empowering Young Minds Through Inclusive Global Education and Future-Ready Learning

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Education is not just about memorizing facts or acing exams—it’s about shaping individuals who are prepared to navigate an ever-changing world. Small class sizes, personalized tutoring, and regular assessments ensure that every student is fully equipped to tackle these critical exams. “We We prepare them for life beyond them.”

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Why Old Arguments for Earning a Diploma Don't Resonate With My Students — and Which Ones Will

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In our current educational landscape, you have to either receive a traditional high school diploma or pass the General Educational Development exam to access most postsecondary schooling options, including trade schools and community colleges. Will it diminish or overshadow the other myriad accomplishments they have achieved?

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If We’re Serious About Student Well-Being, We Must Change the Systems Students Learn In

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Getting good grades on AP exams is associated with higher GPAs in high school and success in college, but the research tends to be correlational rather than causational. In 2008, a little over 180,000 students took three or more AP exams. AP courses and exams also raise complex issues of equity.

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Why Professors Should Ask Students For Feedback Long Before the Semester Is Over

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And research shows that professors who collect early-term feedback, and who use it to make changes to their courses with the help of a consultant, can raise their end-of-semester teaching evaluations. When that happens, instructors should try to “take what’s actionable, leave what’s emotional,” Gorman counsels.

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17 Hero Awards finalists demonstrate their commitment to education

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District leaders formed the Jones Curriculum Council (JCC), a committee of teachers tasked with researching and evaluating top-tier curriculum solutions. With no school counseling team — and teachers weary from other new programs and systems — EPIC needed a partner it could trust to serve Tier 2 students.

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?Anticipating and Addressing Challenges With Technology in Developmental Education

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This includes the provision of electronic access to the course syllabus, reading and viewing materials, assessments, the course calendar, grades, course evaluations, discussion boards, and other important course materials. Course management technology organizes and presents course structure and materials on an electronic platform.

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As Colleges Move Away From the SAT, Will Admissions Algorithms Step In?

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Even the College Board, maker of the SAT, advised colleges to be flexible about requiring the test in the upcoming admissions cycle because of challenges students face getting to in-person tests and glitches in the group’s efforts to administer exams remotely. Everybody seems to have an idea and a solution for my unnamed problem,” she says.

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