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Beyond One-Size-Fits-All: How School Districts Choose Edtech That’s Culturally Relevant

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Technology is not neutral,” says Joshua Jonas, a curriculum and instruction researcher at Baylor University and former high school teacher. “It The technology becomes a bridge rather than a barrier, supporting students in expressing their knowledge while maintaining connections to their cultural and linguistic heritage.

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How to Prepare Students for Jobs in the Self-Driving-Car-Industry

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That painfully obvious pun is actually one of the truest things you can say about this nascent, multidisciplinary enterprise, and it also encapsulates the challenge educators who want to prepare their students to work in this industry are facing today. Take it in high school if you can,” he says. Change your oil.

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Why Every Student Deserves a Robust Arts Education

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As a music teacher and the coordinator for the Academy for the Fine Arts at Governor Thomas Johnson High School, I consider myself fortunate. In middle school, that number drops to 78 hours. By high school, with only one semester of arts education required in our state, average yearly instructional time drops to 33 hours a year.

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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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Each year, some students do not meet these expectations, and as a result, they are told they have not earned a high school diploma and aren’t able to walk across the stage with their peers. Today, as our children leave high school and enter the so-called “real world,” they are facing a world changing at an unprecedented pace.

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Gale and Utah State Library Partner to Provide Residents Free Access to New Digital Resources

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Gale In Context student databases : 7 multidisciplinary, multi-source type databases covering elementary, middle, high school, environmental studies, biographical info, science and a wide range of viewpoints on todays social issues. Gale has 500 employees globally with its main operations in Farmington Hills, Michigan.

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What Is Missing From Our Curricula?

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If a structurally sound bookshelf already proved hard to build, how can one ever manage the construction of a modern high-rise building with its intricate and interlocking web of requirements for structural support, safety, disaster preparation and project management, to name only a few of the complexities?

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Getting the Excel and Photoshop Kids to Play Together: A Conversation with Georg Petschnigg of FiftyThree

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What follows has been lightly edited for clarity.when you look at the big and interesting challenges of the future, they will require multidisciplinary teams and multidisciplinary organizations to figure out the tools that people need to work together. You mentioned the multidisciplinary organization. Georg Petschnigg.