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Mind/Shift: 7 Big Hurdles In Education and Ideas For Solving Them
Katrina Schwartz An infographic can hardly contain enough space to tackle the big, hairy challenges of American education. But the non-profit, Digital Promise, has tried to identify some of the biggest...
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Mind/Shift: What Will Happen to ‘Big Data’ In Education?
Story: Anya Kamenetz Image: Getty Yesterday, a $100 million startup lost its last customer. According to a Politico article, the state of New York, inBloom‘s last remaining client, will delete all...
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Mind/Shift: Giving Good Praise to Girls: What Messages Stick
Story: Katrina Schwartz Photo: Woodleywonderworks ow to praise kids: It’s a hot topic for many parents and educators. A lot of the conversation around it has stemmed from studies by Carol Dweck,...
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SF Gate: Tiny Marin County district clings to struggling school
Story: Jill Tucker Photo: Paul Chinn Despite the state's economic recovery, a Marin County school district is struggling to make ends meet and is planning to cut teachers, administrators and special...
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Story: Katrina Schwartz Project Tomorrow’s 2013 Speak Up survey of more than 325,000 students and 75,000 parents, teachers and administrators digs into how students and teachers are using technology in...
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Mind/Shift: No Courses, No Classrooms, No Grades-- Just Learning
Story by Christina Farr It took just a few weeks for a group of Boston-based teenagers to develop an affordable prosthetic hand for children. These teens took a brief hiatus from school to enroll in...
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Mind/Shift: Beyon Worksheets, A True Expression of Student Learning
Story by Shawn McCusker Part 4 in the series Learning In the New Economy of Information. e live in a world where we are constantly connected to information. This vast ocean of information, the best...
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Mind/Shift: Struggle Means Learning: Difference in Eastern and Western Cultures
Story by: Alix Spiegel In 1979, when Jim Stigler was still a graduate student at the University of Michigan, he went to Japan to research teaching methods and found himself sitting in the back row of a...
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Mind/Shift: For Students, the Importance of Doing Work That Matters
Story by Will Richardson Photo: MartinaK15 We’re halfway to school when my 14-year-old son remembers a homework assignment he forgot to do for biology class. “Something big?” I ask, fearing the worst....
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Mind/Shift: Why Teachers Should Be Trained Like Actors
Story by Katrina Schwartz Teaching is a lot like acting, a high-energy, performance profession that requires a person to act as a role model. But when teachers go through training and professional...
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