Tag: STEM
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Edtech aims to save time, combine resources
It’s no secret that teachers spend a lot of non-instructional time on paperwork. It seems as data tracking with students has improved, the amount of it ... -
4 Keys to Getting Reluctant Readers from ‘No’ to ‘Wow’
Interactive, multimedia environments can turn reading into something that students actually enjoy. By Ted Levine Reading is the most fundamental skill an early learner can develop ... -
6 Fun Careers To Keep Students Excited about School
**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 ... -
How should we measure the size of a university’s endowment?
Sarah Waldeck, Seton Hall University Congress is rattling its saber at colleges and universities with endowments worth U$1 billion or more. Committees from the House and ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
4 Tips for Creative Writing in Class
**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 ... -
Sex education: Time for a revolution (as well as evolution)
By Khaula Mazhar **The Edvocate is pleased to publish guest posts as way to fuel important conversations surrounding a P-20 education in America. The opinions contained within ... -
Why abstinence-only sex ed simply doesn’t work
By Matthew Lynch When I first saw the headline, I thought it was too ironic to be true: Texas school teaching abstinence-only sex ed suffers chlamydia ...