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12 applications to support students with executive function skills
Sara Jamieson EducationIn the age of smartphone technology, it is critical to know how to use our devices not just for communication purposes, but also to help us organize our lives, stay up to date with our school and personal schedules and keep track of information and routines. There are quite a few ways a phone or tablet can help individuals support their executive functioning skills leading to more productive and independent lives.
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How often and why college students are dropping out
Terri Williams EducationA college degree can lead to increased income and job opportunities. According to Georgetown University’s Center on Education and the Workforce, someone with a bachelor’s degree earns 31% more than an individual with an associate degree — and 84% more than someone with a high school diploma. However, a study by Strada Education Network and Lumina Foundation reveals that over the past two decades, a staggering 31 million people have dropped out of college. What’s causing them to leave early?
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Research: Helping those having career decision-making difficulties in college
Linchi Kwok EducationDid you ever find it challenging to decide the right career for yourself? I did when I was a student and even later in my career. The reality is that many of us, especially when we were college students, had trouble making decisions regarding our major(s) and our potential career paths. Some of us may still experience such a struggle even after we have completed a degree program. I worked with Drs. Ning-Kuang Chuang at Kent State University and Patrick Lee at Cal Poly Pomona on a project entitled: "Assisting students with career decision-making difficulties: Can career decision-making self-efficacy and career decision-making profile help?" The full paper was published in the Journal of Hospitality, Leisure, Sport, & Tourism Education.
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Mentoring, a beacon in the dark for young leaders
Sheilamary Koch EducationRecently, my 15-year-old daughter, an emerging environmental activist, told me of her first mentoring experience at a youth summit she attended. In a nutshell, a college student involved in activism on her campus was assigned to a group of three younger students. She began by sharing how she’d experienced little support for her ideas in the area she grew up, then encouraged the others to share about their lives and aspirations. Often, mentors act as metaphorical beacons in the darkness for mentees aiming to accomplish things outside the scope of what people around them are doing.
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Project-based math classrooms can better engage students by addressing…
Brian Stack EducationIt is a struggle to help my own 14-year-old with his math homework. He struggles to maintain good grades in math, but it isn't because he can't do the work. For my son, he just isn't passionate enough about it to have the intrinsic motivation to engage in it. Reaching mastery with the concept of slope only came about when I took the time to phrase it in the context of an aviation problem that he had to solve involving landing a plane at the nearby airport where he takes flying lessons.
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Guided practice in the multilingual classroom
Erick Herrmann EducationEffective instruction in multilingual education includes providing students with comprehensible instruction in the content we are teaching, explicit instruction in the language needed to learn, a process to demonstrate understanding of the new content, and opportunities for students to practice the new content and language being learned. Every teacher and learner figures out quickly that learning is not instantaneous. Students will need multiple opportunities for guided practice, wherein all students have the opportunity to practice both content and language.
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How US schools are reckoning with the coronavirus
Bambi Majumdar EducationThe United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has reported that 290 million students worldwide are out of school due to the coronavirus. The outbreak that emerged in China about two months ago has now claimed over 3,000 lives and infected more than 100,000 people globally. In the U.S., there are now over 500 cases confirmed, and the death toll has risen to 22. As the United States deals with the coronavirus, the big question is: How are schools planning to respond?
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US employers add 273,000 jobs; unemployment drops to 3.5%
Seth Sandronsky Business Management, Services & Risk ManagementIn February, total U.S. nonfarm payroll jobs increased by 273,000 after January's growth of 225,000, while the unemployment rate dipped to 3.5% from 3.6% the previous month, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The jobless rate has been 3.5% or 3.6% since September. In February, nearly all major groups of workers had scant change in the rate of employment versus January's figures. Meanwhile, wage growth remained rather tepid.
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Band of sisters: 4 counselors form a cohesive team to ignore the ‘nonsense’…
Connie Voss EducationCarteret, New Jersey, is a short 35-minute train ride from New York City. Carteret High School students are largely "first generation" when it comes to higher education. Still, about 30% attend universities and 20% attend two-year colleges. The high school is served by four counselors and an assistant. According to statistics, that's 100 more teens than the recommended student-to-counselor ratio. Sweety Patel heads the team. Her workmates are Toni-Marie Planko, Dara Benjamin and Kimberly Vaticano.
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US higher education funding has a long way to go
Patrick Gleeson EducationThe state of higher education funding in the U.S. was recently described in a carefully documented report released in February. The report comes from a Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation-funded organization with the somewhat wonky title, State Higher Education Executive Officers Association (SHEEO). What it tells us about education spending in this country is discouraging. Not only does U.S. higher education funding have a long way to go — there’s no obvious way to get there.
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