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These Miniature Anchor Charts Will Be Your New Favorite Teaching Tool 

[ad_1] Why is it that things in miniature version are always oh-so cute? These miniature anchor charts are not only adorable, but we keep seeing teachers raving about them on social media. We saw these on Teach With Heath’s TikTok recently and love how he uses them in his kindergarten classroom. @teachwithheath_ These are so …

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Brandeis president apologizes for ad

[ad_1] Brandeis University President Ronald Liebowitz has apologized to the university’s Orthodox Jewish student group for a university ad that called Brandeis “anything but Orthodox,” The Times of Israel reported. The two-page spread, which appeared in The New York Times Magazine last week, angered Orthodox Jews, who called it offensive. Last week, the university defended …

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3 Ways To Elevate Employee Training Using Personalization

[ad_1] Using AI Technology To Improve Learning Experiences When it comes to employee training and development, eLearning tools provide a unique opportunity to elevate the learning process by utilizing personalization to accommodate the needs of the employee both as a learner and person. One-size-fits-all traditional education strategies are largely ineffective because they fail to account for …

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SCOTUS decision not a win for Asian Americans (opinion)

[ad_1] Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images/Getty Images News In a 6-to-3 ruling finding race-conscious admissions practices at Harvard University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill to be unconstitutional, the Supreme Court essentially ended affirmative action, upending the elite college admissions landscape. At the heart of the case against Harvard was the argument that Asian …

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The benefits of using Montessori principles in college classes (opinion)

[ad_1] I have a chronic autoimmune illness, an invisible disability, and my institution took its responsibility to the Americans With Disabilities Act seriously, so my COVID-related online teaching time was longer than that of most of my colleagues—I taught online from spring 2020 to spring 2022. Throughout that period, I had the opportunity to work …

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Hampshire to eliminate all jobs in IT department

[ad_1] Hampshire College has eliminated the jobs of the entire 10-member IT department and is replacing it with services from Ellucian, MassLive reported. “Our decision to partner with Ellucian was driven by the increasing complexity of the IT environment, especially security, and is in no way a reflection of the commitment of our current team,” …

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