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Your Lasting Legacy

A Principal's Reflections

No one goes into the education profession for accolades or to make big bucks, although I wish the latter were a reality. However, when the dust settles, educators can take solace in the fact that the actions they do take to help kids learn do make a difference in both the short and long terms.

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OPINION: Let’s change our approach to traditionally overlooked students

The Hechinger Report

Understandably, reports indicating that higher education is heading toward a looming enrollment cliff have university administrators nervous. The remaining 58 percent represent an untapped resource for higher education. These students do not enroll at the same rate as students who are better prepared for college.

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Cognitive Flexibility: Paving the Way For Learner Success

A Principal's Reflections

A few years back the World Economic Forum came out with an article titled The 10 skills you need to thrive in the Fourth Industrial Revolution. Allow students to explore a topic of interest in OpenCourseware and then demonstrate what they have learned in non-traditional ways (see IOCS ).

Economics 400
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Relevant Thinking and Learner Success

A Principal's Reflections

In today's rapidly changing world, where new challenges and technologies emerge at an unprecedented pace, students need to be relevant thinkers to successfully navigate the complex social, economic, and environmental issues they will face. It also sets the stage for effective personalized learning. However, the premise remains the same.

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Change Comes From Within

A Principal's Reflections

Change is a word that is thrown around in education circles more and more each day. We are made to think that education is in a downward spiral and that students are ill prepared to succeed in college and/or careers that require students to think and apply learning differently. Image credit: [link] ?The Forced change rarely works.

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The Power of Microcredentials and America’s Higher Education Dilemma

ED Surge

Community colleges, which have historically served as comprehensive institutions offering associate degrees with transfer articulation agreements to four-year colleges, have also served as workforce drivers through their array of educational credit and non-credit courses. Arrington, in 1860 the economic value of enslaved peoples in the U.S.

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Do Online Degrees Lead to Jobs as Reliably as Traditional Ones?

ED Surge

In contrast, Coleman argued that social capital is a powerful force that activates class mobility, with students leaping over the economic divide, some waking up transformed by the American Dream after college. Will they be set free to overturn barriers imposed by their social and economic status?

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