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Huge Debt and Small Salaries: Are Millennials Making Informed Decisions Regarding Their Education?

EdCircuit StaffJuly 27, 2016030 views

As July comes to a close, thousands of families swarm to the nearest stores and begin to cross items off of their college checklist. For those who need reminding, no one college dorm room is alike. But, according to CENGAGE Learning’s 2015 Student Engagement Insights survey, many of these students have more in common than you think. When asked, “what are your goals after college?” 80% of college students responded that they want a “good job/better job”. Is this attainable for recent college grads?
Forbes warns that it may not be.

Social Media: What Special Education Teachers Need to Know

EdCircuit StaffApril 27, 20160199 views

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Is the U.S. All Wrong? Teacher Training Breaking the Mold

EdCircuit StaffJanuary 27, 2016025 views

From The Hechinger Report
Why Americans should not be coming up with their own solutions to teacher training issues
A look at British Columbia, Hong Kong, Shanghai and Singapore
by MARC TUCKER
Professional development of American teachers costs up to $18 billion a year with at least half of that spent on workshops for teachers. But no matter how much we spend, it doesn’t seem to result in much improvement in student achievement.
Several other countries are doing a better job than the U.S.

Has the Final Bell Rung on Jeb Bush and His Education Plan?

EdCircuit StaffJanuary 19, 2016048 views

From POLITICO
Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush offered a sweeping school choice-centric education plan Monday with proposals that would allow parents to spend government dollars on the pre-K program of their choice and give college students a $50,000 line of credit to pay tuition.
Bush unveiled his plan on Martin Luther King Jr. Day as he fights to stay relevant in a GOP race dominated by Donald Trump, Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio, invoking education as a civil rights issue.

Where is Education’s MLK of 2016?

EdCircuit StaffJanuary 18, 2016051 views

From: The Atlantic
by Melinda Anderson
A year after leading thousands of protesters in the famous Selma-to-Montgomery march, Martin Luther King Jr. brought his campaign to end racial discrimination to Chicago. Rather than voting rights, the target was housing inequity in a city known in 1966—and even today—as the most racially segregated in the nation.

Will the Power Ever Come on for Detroit Public Schools?

EdCircuit StaffJanuary 18, 2016116 views

From U.S. Uncut – Detroit’s students are trying to learn while breathing in black mold and sitting in classrooms filled with buckets catching toilet water leaking through the ceiling. And that’s not even the worst part. Republican Governor Rick Snyder is not only using the financial emergency management laws to poison children in Flint; he’s doing the same thing in Detroit via the public school system, which the state has controlled for the last seven years.