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How A Happy School Can Help Students Succeed Research shows that the way a school 'feels' can help kids learn. But school climate remains a hard concept to define and measure. Read more on NPR

Shutterstock Do you know how much, on average, Americans spend on each of the more than 46 million students in the country’s public schools? It’s about $11,000. But only 15% of respondents to a new poll could estimate the correct range of per-pupil spending. That’s according to a study released this month [...] from Forbes Education

Happy Halloween from the Khan Academy team! http://pic.twitter.com/tfERwhQSWJ — Khan Academy (@khanacademy) November 1, 2016

Hillary Clinton campaigned with first lady Michelle Obama in North Carolina on Oct. 27. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images) In the last week of the presidential campaign, Democratic contender Hillary Clinton offered up a plan to spend $25 billion in federal funds on historically black colleges and universities. There are 107 [...] from Forbes Education

Boutique education providers, like the University of the People, are tailoring online education to fill niches and address individualized needs. from Forbes Education

Schools Hustle To Reach Kids Who Move With The Harvest, Not The School Year The children of migrant farm workers are some of the country's poorest, most undereducated and hardest to track down. Programs like one in southern Indiana are working to change that. Read more on NPR

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The votes are in! Our Halloween history video tackles the Lost Colony of Roanoke. Watch now! https://t.co/94piV2QmDn http://pic.twitter.com/8pXgEhq9qU — Khan Academy (@khanacademy) October 31, 2016

Millennials are pioneering new ways to address the issues that affect them. from Forbes Education

Plaque on the front of the old school building on Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard in Newark, N.J. (photo/Maureen Sullivan) At St. Benedict’s Prep, they’re called Fr. Ed-isms. They’re six “tested and true insights” into the mind of the adolescent boy. And Fr. Ed – Reverend Edwin Leahy, OSB – has [...] from Forbes Education

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300 Million Children Are Breathing 'Extremely Toxic' Air, UNICEF Says Altogether, some 2 billion children worldwide are breathing air that has been deemed a "long term hazard," a report finds. Pollution contributes to around 600,000 deaths annually of kids under age 5. Read more on NPR

It’s Hallowe’en and it’s students who are taking fright as new figures show a sharp drop in applications to U.K. universities. from Forbes Education

School Segregation Remains A 'Devastating' Issue In America, Explains John Oliver And we're looking at you, too, coastal liberals. Just because you eat kale chips doesn't mean this isn't a big problem for you as well. October 31, 2016 at 08:47AM via Digg http://ift.tt/2fwmp8c

A recent report highlights how few organizations are successfully managing the knowledge at their disposal and outlines some steps you can take to improve matters from Forbes Education

The Debate Over Bilingual Education In California California voters will decide on Nov. 8 whether to overturn the state's 20-year-old ban on bilingual education in public schools. Read more on NPR

Beyond The Pail: NPR Unpacks The History Of The Lunch Box From re-purposed lard pails to bento boxes, the way students carry lunch to school has changed almost as much as the classrooms they learn in. Read more on NPR

A young New Zealand entrepreneur is putting an unfiltered spin on business education. from Forbes Education

Twenty-First century teachers need to embrace lesson plans that leverage digital tools to help students understand, interpret, and analyze the world in which they live. Unfortunately, doing so is like swimming against the current. Most of the rhetoric around technology is teaching our children to see STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, [...] from Forbes Education

How One University Used Big Data To Boost Graduation Rates Georgia State says it's saved students $12 million in tuition because they're graduating faster, thanks to its new high-tech advising system. Read more on NPR

Why negotiators dont developed and remain in NegoPorn from Forbes Education

A Vote For California Prop 58 Lifts Bilingual Education Ban Nearly two decades after California banned bilingual education, voters this November 8 will have a chance to restore it, allowing schools to teach students in their native language as well as English. Read more on NPR

She wanted to kill herself. She did not want to live anymore. She Facebook messaged me asking what she should do. I had no idea what to say. I am not a doctor. I am not a therapist. So, I told her what I did when I was depressed. I [...] from Forbes Education

Supporters Of A Chicago School Merger Hope To Stamp Out Segregation In Chicago, a plan to merge one of the wealthiest public schools with a nearby school serving mostly low income, black children has met with a "no" from school officials, but parents aren't giving up. Read more on NPR

What Trump And Clinton Have To Say About Education The candidates aren't talking much about education, but the next president faces big challenges: reducing achievement gaps, implementing the new education law, and expanding access and opportunity. Read more on NPR

Meet our 2016 Talent Search winners from the US and Canada! https://t.co/cYnfUXGSoc http://pic.twitter.com/DYeyMZTnPk — Khan Academy (@khanacademy) October 28, 2016

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Agreeing On More Money For Roads, Bridges May Be Easier Than Finding Workers Both Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump say they would spend more to rebuild the country's aging infrastructure. The problem is there may not be enough people with the right skills to fill those jobs. Read more on NPR

Knowing the commercial activity of your business is crucial for its future survival, but often there is a huge gulf between managers´ impressions of how their sales teams operate and the reality. Here are the five biggest myths about sales, and tips on how to get a truer picture of your firm´s sales activity. from Forbes Education

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A global accounting firm will hire over 9,000 millennials in the US alone next year. How will they do it? from Forbes Education

4 Myths About School Bullying And The 'Trump Effect' Hillary Clinton has just proposed a $500 million initiative to help states combat bullying. Here are some things you should know. Read more on NPR

College Is Still Getting More Expensive. What Can Stop It? Tuition and fees at private and public schools alike keep rising faster than inflation. October 28, 2016 at 12:42AM via Digg http://ift.tt/2eyQdQk

Is it bullying when a protester dresses up like Donald Duck? (Photo credit: JIM WATSON/AFP/Getty Images) Democrat Hillary Clinton refuses to decry bullying among her supporters, but wants to spend $500 million of federal funds to combat bullying in schools. It’s part of her alliance with the teachers’ unions to defeat [...] from Forbes Education

Image Courtesy of Student Loan Hero Today’s college students are overwhelmingly choosing their majors based on passion – 88 percent, in fact, according to a recent Student Loan Hero study. On the other hand, the portion of college students who consider earning potential when deciding on a college and a major is [...] from Forbes Education

RT @khanlabschool Thank you to the Khan Academy employees who played bluegrass for our youngest students! https://t.co/CTXRPfGmN6 http://pic.twitter.com/HeJ4GvFpoE — Khan Academy (@khanacademy) October 27, 2016

International students take their global experiences and educational credentials as a pathway to advancing their career and improving their life. As competition for international students intensifies, nations and educational institutions cannot continue to charge a higher differential fee to international students and deliver unsatisfactory career outcomes. from Forbes Education

In the fall of 2013, I helped launch the Education Design Studio incorporated (EDSi), a private, for-profit hybrid incubator, seed-fund and design studio that operates in partnership with the University of Pennsylvania. Like many edtech incubators, EDSi has a mentoring program. My team and I have learned many lessons about mentoring as EDSi has evolved over time, and other incubators and accelerators might benefit from learning about our findings. from Forbes Education

A defense of audience interaction -- why it's important. from Forbes Education

National Science Test Scores Are Out, But What Do They Really Tell Us? The results are mixed for fourth-, eighth- and 12th-graders. More than that, though, experts say the nation's report card may be out of step with the latest goals for science learning. Read more on NPR

We’re launching a talent search in India! Get all the details, including prize info, here: https://t.co/P2juotbaSm http://pic.twitter.com/gHVliWolx0 — Khan Academy (@khanacademy) October 27, 2016

It’s no secret that college costs are rising faster than the overall rate of inflation, placing an ever-increasing financial burden on college students and their families. But there are ways to fight back. By following these six steps, students can smartly navigate college expenses and graduate with the lowest possible debt load. from Forbes Education

Practice makes perfect. from Forbes Education

The Return Of Bilingual Education In California? In 1998, California became the first state to ban bilingual education. For nearly 20 years English-only instruction has been the norm. Proposition 58 could change that. Read more on NPR

VideoThis year, Education Week published another report that said teachers still face systemic challenges in adapting their instruction to new technologies in ways that would transform education. This doesn't surprise me as I've asked students how they've used their smart boards and to my great disappointment, one studentsaid, "Sometimes, I [...] from Forbes Education

If a school won a stock pitch competition for three years in a row, would you like to know what stock they pitched? Each year, graduate students from across the country come to the Ross School of Business and participate in a stock pitch competition. This year, Jack Zhao, Wyan [...] from Forbes Education

How The Barber, And Other Caring Adults, Help Kids Succeed A new study finds that for every seven more adults in a neighborhood, one fewer young person leaves school. Read more on NPR

How The Barber, And Other Caring Adults, Help Kids Succeed A new study finds that for every seven more adults in a neighborhood, one fewer young person leaves school. Read more on NPR

DUBAI - Dubai is a city that's constantly in the making. Not just because of the ever present construction sites, but also due to the effort the city is doing to position itself as a global player in a number of fields, from renewable energies to smart transportation. Money is certainly [...] from Forbes Education

Putting the Yondr pouch for mobile devices to the ultimate test. from Forbes Education

$1.3 trillion. 40 million Americans. $35,000. These are the ever-growing numbers associated with the massive issue of student loan debt in the United States: $1.3 trillion in outstanding student loans, impacting 40 million Americans who are leaving college with an average of $35,000 in student loans. The numbers are staggering enough that student debt [...] from Forbes Education

Winging it doesn't help you in the long run. from Forbes Education

The Man Who Shed Light On Why College Keeps Getting More Expensive Remembering William Bowen, a former president of Princeton University and an important scholar of higher education, who died last week. Read more on NPR

Shutterstock by Alex Amari Since mid-September, Uber has been rolling out its first platoon of self-driving cars in Pittsburgh. While they’re not technically driverless (for now, there’s someone sitting in the front seat, just in case), these cars have proven remarkably effective at traversing the hilly and narrow streets of Pennsylvania’s second-largest [...] from Forbes Education

Shutterstock by Alex Amari Since mid-September, Uber has been rolling out its first platoon of self-driving cars in Pittsburgh. While they’re not technically driverless (for now, there’s someone sitting in the front seat, just in case), these cars have proven remarkably effective at traversing the hilly and narrow streets of Pennsylvania’s second-largest [...] from Forbes Education

It's almost time to pick the 2017 Forbes 30 Under 30 in Education, our annual who's who of the brightest individuals under the age of 30 who are changing the education landscape with some of the sector's most innovative ideas. from Forbes Education

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Gone are the days of headhunter databases. from Forbes Education

What Are The Main Reasons Teachers Call It Quits? Teachers in the U.S. flee the profession at rates higher than other developed nations. Often, the reasons have little to do with pay, parents or students. Read more on NPR

How We Teach English Learners: 3 Basic Approaches U.S. schools are scrambling to teach millions of students who don't speak English. That means more program options and better services. Here's a look at the three most common approaches. Read more on NPR

Scott Adams had all five sharks fighting to give him money. Literally, they were competing with each other to win him over. I’ve probably watched 100 episodes. I have never seen anything like this. I tracked down Scott’s contact information and emailed him. I had so many questions about his [...] from Forbes Education

For Many Schools The Recession Never Ended A new study of Census and state budget data finds a majority of states spend less on their schools now than they did in 2008. Read more on NPR

Breakthrough In Strike By Pennsylvania Professors The Association of Pennsylvania State College and University Faculties and Pennsylvania's State System of Higher Education reached a tentative agreement on the third day of a walkout. Read more on NPR

VideoShutterstock YesterdayLinkedIn releasedits list of top skills for 2017. Statistical analysis and data mining retained thesecond spot they heldlast year while data presentation entered the top 10 for the first time. Both of these skill categories fall under the heading of data science, a term coined in 2001 by William S. Cleveland, a [...] from Forbes Education

The Anti-Helicopter Parent’s Plea: Let Kids Play! A Silicon Valley dad decided to test his theories about parenting by turning his yard into a playground where children can take physical risks without supervision. Not all of his neighbors were thrilled. October 21, 2016 at 07:32AM via Digg http://ift.tt/2epO3Sr

The Joan Ganz Cooney Center’s new Digital Games and Family Life Infographic looks at the game genres and titles that kids and their families play. Not surprisingly, there seems to be a generational gap. There is also a curious gender distinction. (Photo by Jordan Shapiro) When it comes to age, puzzle/strategy games, [...] from Forbes Education

Texas May Be Denying Tens Of Thousands Of Children Special Education Texas school officials have until early November to explain why they placed a limit on the percentage of children enrolled in special education, as a Houston Chronicle investigation revealed. Read more on NPR

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American Academy Of Pediatrics Lifts "No Screens Under 2" Rule A new policy statement says kids as young as 15 months can learn from media when a caregiver is present and involved. Read more on NPR

I’m tired, I have a headache and I’m really glad the debates are over. Like most Americans, I have post-presidential debate hangover syndrome. Watching the debates and then arguing about them with friends (and a few strangers) into the wee hours of the morning can do that to you. Now [...] from Forbes Education

  Image Courtesy of Student Loan Hero If you’ve defaulted on your student loans, the option to 'rehabilitate' your loans is intended to help you get back on track. But according to a new report from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), the rehabilitation system is broken. So broken, in fact, [...] from Forbes Education

A new study suggests that getting the right kind of leaders in schools could have a huge impact on the economy. from Forbes Education