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The majority of online education is poorly designed and extremely boring.

We’ve all attended Webinars that make root canals seem more exciting!

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Much of the media coverage on Quebec’s student protests have dismissed the students as cranky middle and upper-middle class children clinging to the advantages they already have. But the fact that the vast majority of today’s university students come from relatively well-off families indicates that we have a serious problem with access to education. A problem that would only be exacerbated by tuition hikes.

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This morning (May 28th), People for Education released our Annual Report on Schools. The report is an audit of the education system and recognizes the challenge for any public education system is to serve all of its students and to serve them well.

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We have to stop acting as if content and teachers are scarce.

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Then he looks at this year's first-graders, calculates his staffing and crunches the numbers: although these kids also have high needs, three classrooms of 16 or 17 will have to be shoe-horned into two second-grade classes of 23.

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So, while applying for such jobs, you need to display your good academic records and research abilities, to prove your potential to handle positional responsibilities. Thus, they help you to create an additional advantage, by highlighting your strong aspirations, to serve the education sector.

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ORIGAMI-KIDS is a free site that illustrates to make unique folded Origami Airplanes that you'll find nowhere else. Some are easy to folding. All are flying origami as well as PAPER AIRPLANE, but all are fun to fold and fly. No scissors, glue, or tape required for the paper planes or paper boat folding. 

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Want a career that's fun and exciting? Check out these five careers that let you have fun on the job.

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Social Media, while sometimes described as a time waster and blocked by some schools, is actually a great tool for education.

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MathsNet.com is the main hub of the MathsNet suite of web sites. Here you will find access by subscription to online courses.

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Sick Science! Every Tuesday

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A coalition of national leaders in the field of early childhood education are becoming increasingly concerned about the impact of recent federal education policy reforms on early childhood education and care around the country.

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Perhaps the only task more daunting than rounding up the internet’s trove of free resources is organizing those blogs posts, videos, photos, and audio files into a presentable classroom lesson. Online pinboards could simplify both.

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The assumption goes something like this: the open digital educational materials made available through these initiatives are of value because they are the product of these prestigious, highly selective institutions.

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School principals and district administrators are more likely than the general public to be adopters of smartphones and tablet computers, according to a new report based on data from the 2011 Speak Up survey.

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The most impressive technology-rich classrooms don't look like classrooms. Instead, they look like creative businesses on deadline—like advertising agencies pulling together a big campaign, architectural firms drawing up blueprints, or software companies developing new programs.

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The scale of the universe - puts everything into perspective

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We all have gone to YouTube at one time or another to watch a video of some kind; educational or not so educational. We’ve watched the latest viral videos sweeping the world by storm for their hilarity, shock value, or powerful message.  There’s no shortage of content to be consumed on YouTube. If you’ve never checked out YouTube’s statistics on their traffic you can go to their press page and give them a glance. An hour of video every second! That is astounding!

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In preparation for a community conversation, an urban newspaper publisher asked me what I would do to dramatically improve academic outcomes in his city. 

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It appears since the arrival of iPads that the PC it is no longer the cutting edge technology that it once was. My blogs aim to investigate the use of this handheld technology in primary education, in particular Spring Cottage Primary School's 'iPad journey' and look at some of the apps that can be used across the curriculum to engage, motivate and inspire children's learning in the classroom.

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