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How Large Print Books Create a ‘Virtuous Cycle’ for All Readers

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Addressing Learning Differences and Reading Challenges Related Resources: Study White Paper: Inspire Engaged and Confident Readers Study Executive Summary Study Infographic Large Print Student Testimonials Need Answers for Student Literacy?

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How to Bring to Life the Science of Reading

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As a result, teaching students how to read is a complex and challenging endeavor — that’s why it takes years. Imagine Learning EL Education aligns with the concept of high-quality instructional materials (HQIMs). Reading requires building connections in the brain that wouldn’t exist without explicit instruction.

Pedagogy 113
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The Pandemic’s Lasting Lessons for Colleges, From Academic Innovation Leaders

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In the midst of these trends, we wanted to hear how academic innovation leaders are thinking and feeling about higher education right now. We talked to: Michelle Cantu-Wilson, director of teaching and learning initiatives and special projects at San Jacinto College. What are they worried and excited about? Smith University.

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After Transforming a College With Online Offerings, a President Steps Down to Tackle AI

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But he’s not done trying to bring big changes to higher education. He plans to focus on a new effort at Southern New Hampshire to explore how to reshape college teaching through the use of new generative AI tools like ChatGPT. So I get here in 2003, and there were about 18 people [teaching] and a few hundred students [online].

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How a Billionaire’s Fellowship Spread Skepticism About College’s Value

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By the end of the interview, Thiel asked him to help him teach a class at Stanford Law School on philosophy and technology, and he hired him as an analyst at his fund. And he wrote the white paper for it around the time of that bagel meetup for the Thiel Fellowship. We talked philosophy,” Gibson remembers.

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Can a Group of MIT Professors Turn a White Paper Into a New Kind of College?

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A group of professors at Massachusetts Institute of Technology dropped a provocative white paper in September that proposed a new kind of college that would address some of the growing public skepticism of higher education. This week, they took the next step toward bringing their vision from idea to reality.

Pedagogy 134
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MIT Professors Propose a New Kind of University for Post-COVID Era

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And there's the tougher question: "If remote education is worth the tuition, then what is the worth of college?" Five professors at Massachusetts Institute of Technology say they have some answers. The proposed NEI would switch that, recommending that 80 percent of a professor's time be spent on teaching and 20 percent on research.

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