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Poptential™ From Certell Offers Content on Tax Day for High School Teachers

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As Tax Day approaches, Poptential , a family of free social studies course packages, offers instructors media-rich content to teach key concepts about taxation in the United States. Poptential course packages include everything instructors need to teach a subject, including lessons, e-books, bell ringers , quizzes, and tests.

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Companies go to high schools for career training

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Since the second semester of his senior year of high school, he has responded to field calls as an employee of the largest underground utility locating company in North America — the Indianapolis-based U.S. The company also provides the two instructors, said Darrin Haynes, senior manager of career and technical education at USIC.

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High Schools Worldwide Partner with VHS Learning for Teacher-Led Online Classes

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Boston – Schools around the world and across the United States have launched partnerships with VHS Learning this year to provide their students with rich, engaging online courses in a variety of disciplines. VHS Learning currently has approximately 19,000 course enrollments annually.

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Dual Enrollment Numbers Are Rising. Colleges Want Them to Keep Growing.

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Not only do these courses offer students a jump-start on credits once they get to college, but they also equip them with skills like time management, critical thinking and study habits that researchers say encourage them to enroll and stay in college. The number of dually enrolled students has boomed in recent years.

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Digital Tools Key to Financial Literacy,According to Study by Certell and Project Tomorrow

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. — The vast majority of high school students are not financially literate but respond well to economics and personal finance courses that include digital tools in their curriculum, according to a new study by Project Tomorrow and Certell, creator of the Poptential family of free, award-winning social studies course packages.

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Online learning in high school helps students explore career pathways

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High schools can fulfill this goal by giving students opportunities to explore a wide range of career options in the courses they provide. Taking career-related courses in high school doesnt just broaden students horizons. It also helps them narrow their choices.

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College Students Are Doing Less Homework. Should Instructors Change How They Assign It?

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One cause is the pandemic, and how it disrupted middle and high school for today’s traditional-aged college students. Johnson, a writing instructor and chair of the writing center at Madison Colleg “It all sort of feels bundled together,” Cohn says. Teaching The Why Sarah Z.