Monthly Archives: February 2016
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Pull Your Own Weight: Early learning and the physical advance organizer
**The Edvocate is pleased to publish guest posts as way to fuel important conversations surrounding P-20 education in America. The opinions contained within guest posts are ... -
Wearing a suit equals success? It just might to these kids
Photo via Timefrozen Photography Work hard, get good grades in school, and you’ll eventually find some semblance of the American dream in life. It’s what all ... -
myON Adds Classic Novels and Short Stories to its Personalized Literacy Environment
The unabridged fiction in myON Classics includes works by authors such as Mark Twain and Charles Dickens (Minneapolis, MN) February 22, 2016 — myON, a business unit of Capstone and ... -
We Need to Talk About BYOD
The BYOD Listening Project asks: In the rush to control students’ devices, have we overlooked the ‘moment of teaching’? By Sharon Price Campbel If you’re a ... -
Reading Horizons Incorporates the Lexile® Framework for Reading in K-3 Literacy Platform
North Salt Lake, UT- Feb. 23, 2016 — Reading Horizons and MetaMetrics® are thrilled to announce the expansion of their partnership with the addition of Lexile® measures ... -
Best Resources and Tools for a College Freshman
This guest post is written by Robert Morris, an educator from New York. He is passionate about edtech, education and literature. His articles appeared on Lifehack, Edudemic ... -
What fewer women in STEM means for their mental health
Jennifer Drake, University of Toronto “You’re in engineering!?! Wow, you must be super-smart…” It has been over 10 years since I was a first-year engineering undergraduate ... -
Alabama scientist proves need for more minorities in STEM
Dr. Hadiyah-Nicole Green is a physicist from St. Louis, Missouri who teaches physics at Tuskegee University. Earning her bachelor’s degree from Alabama A&M University and her master’s ... -
Digital Early Learning Program in Napa County sees strong results
Submitted by Dr. Barbara Nemko, Napa County Superintendent of Schools “The children love [the program] and in fact they ask daily, ‘Is it my turn on ... -
Diverse Conversations: You Can Go Back Home
“You can never go back home.” These famous words by Henry David Thoreau began to ruminate in my mind as I prepared to conduct an interview ...