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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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There have always been people who have believed that lifelong learning is a worthwhile process. Increasingly, scientific research is proving them correct and technology is making it easier – adults can now take online college classes for the rest of their lives.

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In an attempt to unify that variety of high school subjects, Meyers has put together a semester-long multidisciplinary course that requires students to apply the spectrum of their education in a cohesive way. To do it, he picked maybe the most multidisciplinary of focal points: the city.

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John Johnston finds the ultimate mobile blogging app, from Radiowaves – and its free

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I've been aware of Radiowaves – used by more than 50,000 pupils for safe posting of podcasts and videos – for a long time. It was one of my inspirations for Radio Sandaig and started me podcasting.

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Nine Dangerous Things You Were Taught In School
Be aware of the insidious and unspoken lessons you learned as a child. To thrive in the world outside the classroom, you’re going to have to unlearn them.

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Thousands of first-year students at Ontario community colleges are taking catch-up courses in basic math skills — fractions, decimals, percentages — that they should have learned in grades 6, 7 and 8, according to an alarming new study.

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Earlier this month, the school board approved a plan that eventually will put a computer in the backpacks of most of the district's 4,300 second- to 12th-grade students. Kindergartners and first-graders will have iPod Touch devices that stay at school; second-graders will have iPod Touches that stay at school; and third- through 12th-graders will have iPads that either stay at school or, for most students, travel with them.

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Today’s Telegraph UK reports that sending kids to school, full time, and teaching them reading, writing and arithmetic before the age of six can be hazardous to natural development.

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I am very grateful for all teachers -- early childhood, elementary, middle, and college. But the world I know best is the work of high school teachers. If you add it up, the average high school teacher works about 70 hours per week and this is just the "business" side of the job. Just as importantly, our high school teachers provide a place of caring, safety, and hope for our teenage children in a world that often does not. Our courageous teachers shoulder the burdens of the emotional toll our students carry to school.

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BYOT programs — like the one at Georgia’s Coal Mountain Elementary School — encourage students to bring in their own personal mobile technology — including iPads, Kindle Fires, netbooks — even gaming devices — to use during class.

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Much has been written about the structures, the founders and the personalities that have moulded the image of the amazingly successful business – Apple.  Not only have we, the consumer, been able to establish new day-to-day routines by using the numerous Apple products on the market, but, aware of it or not, our lives have been deeply impacted and altered.

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The option of online education, which at first seemed to be limited to those who were working and going to school, is now readily available everywhere these days.

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Many people go through their childhood years and are confronted by a bully at some point. Simply because this is a common occurrence certainly does not make it acceptable. While many parents might be tempted to brush it off, consider this: each day, around 160,000 students skip school due to fears of attacks from bullies. Bullying is a serious threat to children that affects them physically, mentally and emotionally.

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An effective school library impacts more than student achievement—it also lifts a school's entire educational climate, says a recent two-phase study by Rutgers University's Center for International Scholarship in School Libraries (CISSL) on behalf of the New Jersey Association of School Librarians (NJASL).

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Bill Gates gave a speech at a High School about 11 things they did not and will not learn in school. Words of wisdom and life from one of the greatest entrepreneurs of the century.

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According to this article for Huff Post, U.S. high school students are reading at a level that hovers around 5th grade. One of the many concerns here is a lack of development of "critical reading skills", the kind that help students master many aspects of the 21st Century Fluencies.

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There may only be a few months left in the 2011-2012 school year around the country, but that’s no reason not to brush up on a few of the best apps for teachers. There are all kinds of apps that can help teachers keep track of students’ grades, attendance, and even their overall performance; some even come complete with the ability to add specific notes on each student.

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Etsy, the popular marketplace for all things handmade, just announced that it will not just be hosting the 2012 session of Hacker School at its headquarters in New York, but that it will also offer ten $5,000 grants to women who would like to attend this year’s session but don’t have the financial means to do so. As Etsy’s VP of engineering Marc Hedlund notes, the idea here is to ensure that about 50% of the next Hacker School class of about 40 participants will be female.

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Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster today issued a report on his firm's latest semi-annual survey of U.S. teenagers, the 23rd such survey in the firm's history. The results of the extensive survey of 5,600 U.S. high school students show that 34% of surveyed students now own an iPhone, an all-time high in the survey and double the percentage seen just a year ago. Furthermore, 40% of surveyed students indicated that they intend to purchase an iPhone within the next six months.

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Consider some of the basic symbols of education in the United States: the textbook, the chalkboard, and the apple. Thanks to technological innovations and cultural forces, we’ve seen textbooks supplanted by videos and e-books, SMART Boards replace chalkboards, and the apple on the teacher’s desk pushed aside by the latest gadgets from, well, Apple.

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