Author: Elizabeth

Flipping Faculty from Guide on the Side to Mentor in the Center

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The challenges for faculty working with students in the 21st century are rising. How can faculty meet the many challenges facing higher education? In the past, faculty could stand objectively in front of the class and provide didactic information to students via lecture. Students came to the classroom expecting information from a book and verbal lecture covering the content. Over time, student expectations and readiness have changed. Students in the 21st century enter the classroom armed with a vast array of knowledge just a swipe away on various digital devices. In addition, they have access to instant entertainment and innovative instruction on various websites, social media, and podcasts. Unfortunately, nationwide scores in math and reading are on the decline—these students often lack the skills to succeed in higher education. The challenge of identifying the best approach to educating these digital natives is on the mind of educators across the country.

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850 more unvaxxed NYC teachers, school aids fired

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The city Department of Education has axed another 850 teachers and classroom aids — bringing the total to nearly 2,000 school employees fired for failure to comply with a vaccine mandate struck down in court.

About 1,300 DOE employees who took a year’s unpaid leave — with benefits — agreed to show proof of COVID vaccination by Sept. 5 or be “deemed to have voluntarily resigned.”

Of those staffers, 450 got a shot by the deadline and “are returning to their prior schools or work locations,” DOE officials told The Post. They include some 225 teachers and 135 paraprofessionals.

The 850 let go makes roughly 1,950 DOE staffers terminated since the vaccine mandate took effect on Oct. 29, 2021.

Rachelle Garcia, an elementary school teacher in Brooklyn for 15 years and mother of two, worked fully in person during the pandemic and never got sick, she said.

But she refused

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Students Sue Hawaii University Over Freedom Of Speech

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UniversitySEOUL Like many different Americans who came to show at the overseas-funded Pyongyang University of Science and Technology (PUST), Kim Hak Song was a Christian missionary who raised cash from a church to return to North Korea.

The following states have an apprentice program in STEM fields at designated U.S. Army research facilities: Alabama, Illinois, Maryland, Mississippi, and Virginia. Students are paired immediately with a Department of Defense analysis scientist to obtain first-hand mentoring and exposure to scientific applied sciences. THEY SENT THE LOANS BACK TO THE LENDER-THE FINANCIAL COUNCILOR TOLD ME SHE DID, WHICH IS V E R Y ILLEGAL.

But the icing on the cake is that I even have to buy a e book for one in all my courses… a bodily ebook… when all of the different courses required only e-books. What’s completely different? Why do I actually have to pay one other $one hundred fifty …

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2022-2023 guide to back to school in Miami and Broward

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Are you ready for your child’s first day of school?

Public school starts Aug. 16 in Broward and Aug. 17 in Miami-Dade.

Here’s what parents and students should know:

Will breakfast and lunch be free?

Breakfast is free for all students in Miami-Dade and Broward public schools. Miami-Dade’s public school district is also giving free lunch to all students again this year.

The district said it will rely on funding this year from a federal program called Community Eligibility Provision, which reimburses schools and school districts for meals in low-income areas. Last year, South Florida school districts relied on a now-expired USDA waiver to provide free lunch to students.

In Broward, some students, but not all, will get free lunch.

Broward’s public school district said it can provide free lunch to students at 167 schools through the funding it will get from the Community Eligibility Provision program. Broward Schools said

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3 Steps To Become a Doctor

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Becoming a doctor is a long, complicated process. Because you are responsible for your patients’ health and well-being, you have to prove yourself to be competent and qualified. It takes many years of studying and practicing under supervision to make sure that any mistakes you make do not negatively impact patients. The following are not all the steps to becoming a doctor, but they are the most important.

1. Go To Medical School

Even this first step involves lots of smaller steps. To be a doctor, you have to have a strong grounding in life sciences. Therefore, med schools require that students wishing to attend meet minimum academic requirements for admission. Majoring in pre-med should cover your bases, but if you major in a field such as biology, you may still qualify. Additionally, you also typically have to take and pass the Medical College Admission Test to demonstrate the …

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For some families, going back to school means going back to lunchroom debt

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Before Minnesota banned school lunch shaming, children who owed money to the cafeteria might be handed a cold cheese sandwich for lunch. Or no lunch at all.

They might come home from school wearing a humiliating sticker or hand stamp to let their parents — and every other kid on the school bus — know they were in debt.

They might be banned from field trips or fun class activities until someone paid up.

But Minnesota did ban lunch shaming. State lawmakers, who don’t agree on much, came together across party lines on that one last year. Because a child’s biggest worry at lunchtime should be more along the lines of whether today is Pizza Day or not.

The law changed. Many school district policies did not.

As students head back to school, Mid-Minnesota Legal Aid — which has battled for years to identify and eradicate lunch shaming — went

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