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  Kristen

  

  What’s Lost When a Teacher Leaves a School

  edsurge.com - Tracy Edwards

  “Her teacher quit last Friday. Just like that, she’s gone,” my friend said to me just a few weeks ago, devastated that her daughter’s second grade …

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  Kristen

  

  Survey: How college students say they learn best

  insidehighered.com - Colleen Flaherty

  In a new Student Voice survey, students share their preferences for class format, active learning strategies and note-taking. Interactive lectures …

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  Kristen

  

  Harvard Tells Grad Students to Get Food Stamps to Supplement The Unlivable Wages It Pays Them

  VICE - Jules Roscoe

  The university is hosting an event encouraging graduate students to apply for federal food assistance. Harvard University is holding an event to help graduate students sign up for government food assistance programs. The university’s Health Services office sent a flier to graduate students Wednesday …

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  Kristen

  

  Stop requiring college degrees for jobs that don’t need them

  Vox - Rachel M. Cohen

  Employers are finally tearing down the “paper ceiling” in hiring. When President Joe Biden recently touted the hundreds of billions of dollars invested into American manufacturing in the last two years, he included a talking point that previous Democratic presidents might not have bragged about. New …

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  Kristen

  

  Columbia becomes first Ivy League school to permanently drop SAT/ACT testing requirement

  New York Post - Patrick Reilly

  Columbia University will no longer require undergraduate applicants to submit their SAT or ACT standardized test scores, becoming the first Ivy …

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  Kristen

  

  The Latest Research on Teaching and Learning: Video Games

  tcea.org - Lori Gracey

  This month we’ll take a look at a hot topic: Does playing video games harm children’s cognitive development? Everyone’s got an opinion about this, …