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Powerful Learning is Collaborative and Connected

Digital Promise

Connected learning can happen on a local scale by fostering connections with businesses, places of worship, government agencies, and museums where students can reach an authentic audience. 2014 Oct;42(7):1038-48. Try playing a quick round of Mystery Skype with your classroom as a first experience with a virtual exchange.

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Bureaucratic costs at some colleges are twice what’s spent on instruction

The Hechinger Report

The study, based on financial data provided by colleges and universities themselves to the federal government, found that 64 cents was spent on administration at the smallest private colleges for every 36 cents spent on instruction. A 2014 report by the Delta Cost Project found that the number of administrators had increased from one per 3.5

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Why six states still spend nothing on preschool

The Hechinger Report

We can’t go to the museum; we can’t go to the Discovery Center. When the forest funds became too unpredictable in 2014, educators asked residents to back the preschool program directly through a local property tax. They approved the measure in 2014 with a 66 percent majority and renewed it in 2016 with a 67 percent majority.

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This Muslim microstate could soon be the world’s smallest country

Strange Maps

Apart from its golden-domed headquarters, the campus also includes tyrbes (holy tombs of previous Debedabas); extensive archives on the Order’s history, including audio recordings of Bektashi musical traditions; and a museum and a library. On a visit in 2014, Pope Francis praised Albania’s religious tolerance as an example for the world.

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How one tiny town is battling ‘rural brain drain’

The Hechinger Report

Enrollment in the Onalaska School District — which includes the town and outlying areas — rose by about 14 percent between May 2014 and May 2018, to 851 students. It’s an unincorporated, census-designated place — large enough to have its own name, but not to have its own government. Heather Guenther, Onalaska High School graduate.

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Pop-ups bring preschool to low-income communities

The Hechinger Report

Each local branch of the Y raises its own funds, typically through an annual campaign, grants from private foundations, the United Way and local government, and partnerships with schools and community organizations. Related: Why Oklahoma’s public preschools are some of the best in the country. But environment is crucial to this growth.

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More universities and colleges reach out to boost their home communities

The Hechinger Report

They also say it’s in the universities’ self-interest, coming as it does at a time when decaying surroundings and urban crime discourage applicants, cash-strapped local governments are pushing these nonprofit institutions to pay more for the services they get, and the public has a low opinion of college costs, management and value.

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