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The best thing about being a teacher is that it matters. The hardest thing about being a teacher is that it matters every day. Inspirational quotes for teachers.

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When You Want To Change Careers - 7 Tips From Women Who Have Done It

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The Bureau of Labor Statistics estimates that people change jobs an average of 12 times in a career and Gallup found that Millennials changed jobs three times more often than other demographics. What do we do? We reinvent ourselves. Here are tips to make the most of it. from Forbes Education

The Advice I Wish I Received When I Graduated College

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The advice I wish I received when I graduated college. from Forbes Education

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Here Come The Annuity Sales!

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The new 401k/IRA modification rules that have passed the House of Representatives and are now being taken up by the Senate will provide a number of improvements and simplification for high net worth taxpayers, while also taking away the ability to “stretch out” distributions from an IRA that would from Forbes Education

12 Entrepreneurs Share How Their Favorite Teacher Inspired Their Journey

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Sometimes all it takes is one person to change your life-the right person. Who inspired you to become an entrepreneur? Twelve founders tell their stories of the inspiration they found through some unexpected voices. from Forbes Education

The New College Enrollment Numbers, Explained

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With one or two big exceptions, new enrollment figures for spring, 2019 show a stable landscape and no sign that market pressures related to debt or tuition prices. from Forbes Education

Inspirational Teaching Quote by Rick Riordan, Enjoy Teaching with Brenda Kovich

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Why The President Of NYU Was Right To Condemn A Pro-BDS Graduation Address

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Students at graduation are a captive audience to the speaker and have no opportunity to refute or respond to what is said. Academic freedom is no excuse for a speaker to abuse his privilege by delivering an anti-Israel screed. from Forbes Education

Is Austin, Texas The Best City In America?

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Austin was recently voted the top place to live in America. Here's why it's so amazing. from Forbes Education

Four Steps That Can Improve Any Situation

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Fundamentally, learning new things and creating change in your life are the same. Today, I’ll explore those fundamentals. We’ll look at how you can apply them to your finances, or learning a new language or whatever else you want to accomplish. from Forbes Education

9 Money Moves Every New Grad Should Make

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Congratulations! Graduating college is a huge milestone and in many ways, the beginning of your financial life. Whether you’re reading this with a negative net worth or are a bit ahead of the game, here are a few key money moves you should make now that you’re done with school. from Forbes Education

NPR News: Solving The Tech Industry's Ethics Problem Could Start In The Classroom

Solving The Tech Industry's Ethics Problem Could Start In The Classroom Facebook, Google and other tech giants have been hit with problems they didn't anticipate their software creating. An MIT professor is teaching students that ethics is essential to their future work. Read more on NPR

Student Loans Bill Of Rights Coming Soon To California

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Is a student loan bill of rights coming to California? from Forbes Education

NPR News: Rapper Lil Nas X Performs For Elementary School Children

Rapper Lil Nas X Performs For Elementary School Children Lil Nas X was taken by surprise when he began his song "Old Town Road," and the kids started dancing and jumping — and basically took over. Read more on NPR

NPR News: Marathon Spelling Bee Ends With Historic 8 Co-Champions

Marathon Spelling Bee Ends With Historic 8 Co-Champions The Scripps National Spelling Bee ends with a record eight co-champions. The eight finalists out-spelled 557 other contestants ranging in age from 7 to 15 over the course of three days. Read more on NPR

The Supreme Court Just Slammed Shut The Bathroom Door To Bigotry

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The ACLU hailed the high court's decision, calling it "a victory for trans students and educators nationwide." from Forbes Education

NPR News: Learning About The Holocaust Could Soon Be Mandatory In Oregon Thanks To This Friendship

Learning About The Holocaust Could Soon Be Mandatory In Oregon Thanks To This Friendship Oregon public schools could soon be required to teach students about the Holocaust starting in the 2020-2021 school year thanks to an unlikely friendship between a Holocaust survivor and a young girl. Read more on NPR

How Colleges Are Preparing Grads For Real Life

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Colleges have been catching a lot of flak for sending students out into the world with a degree, tons of debt, and little to no real world experience. Here are a few ways colleges are providing more than just a degree and preparing graduates for a successful life after graduation. from Forbes Education

4 Lessons On Happiness Everyone Can Learn From

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Four approaches to what makes us happy in life everyone can learn something from. from Forbes Education

Education Reformers, Our Work Here Is Done

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It is true, not every study of school choice finds positive results, but If you’re going to put the negative findings out there, especially if you bill yourself as representing the views of a think tank and not an advocacy organization, you have an obligation to give a full accounting of the facts. from Forbes Education

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Meet Apolitical, The "Social Network" For Civil Servants.

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While most social networks are all about sharing cat videos and connecting with old school friends, a new peer-to-peer learning platform for government aims to bolster the critical skills for civil servants. from Forbes Education

When High Schoolers Skip Their Way To Graduation

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Earlier this week, in a disconcerting look at the schools in Montgomery County, Maryland, it was reported that large numbers of high school seniors are graduating despite repeatedly skipping required classes. There are at least three facets of all this that deserve note. from Forbes Education

There's A Nationwide STEM Teacher Shortage. Will It Cost Us The Next Einstein?

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We’re losing Einsteins every day because too many of our students don’t experience excellent STEM learning. To create the next generation of innovators that can drive solutions to our biggest challenges, we must foster everyone’s unique creativity and brilliance with the STEM teachers they deserve. from Forbes Education

10 Best Books For Summer Personal Brand Reading

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There are great books out in the market that will teach you personal branding lessons. You can learn about teamwork, word-of-mouth, reputation, passion and thinking of others when building your brand. It is these elements that create a strong, indelible and delightful personal brand. from Forbes Education

Can You Answer These 6 Basic Financial Questions? Most People Only Get 2 Right

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Can you answer these basic financial literacy questions? Most people fail this test. from Forbes Education

College Enrollment, Spring 2019: The Downward Slide Continues

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Overall college enrollment in spring, 2019 decreased by 1.7%, or about 300,000 students. This decrease is the latest in several consecutive years of declines. The for-profit sector and two-year colleges saw the largest drops, and the decline in liberal arts enrollments continues. from Forbes Education

Japanese Teachers on Curiosity: "All This Time, They Have Kept It Inside. Now It is Pouring Out."

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Japanese teachers are under pressure to help their students become more curious and creative. How will they do it? from Forbes Education

NPR News: Part 2: This Teen Planned A School Shooting. But Did He Break The Law?

Part 2: This Teen Planned A School Shooting. But Did He Break The Law? The 2018 arrest of Vermont teenager Jack Sawyer raised some big legal questions. Among them: At what point does a thought — or even a plan — become a crime? Read more on NPR

What If Online Education Simply Doesn't Work?

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Millions of students are going to college online so maybe it's time to ask if that works. There's plenty of evidence it doesn't. from Forbes Education

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If you haven’t downloaded the @khanacademy app and started learning things, you’re doing it wrong! — Jeet Shroff #RaisingKratos (@theshroffage) May 28, 2019

Measles for the One Percent

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Measles for the One Percent Vaccines, Waldorf schools and the problem with liberal Luddites. May 29, 2019 at 10:28AM via Digg http://bit.ly/2JMad2i

What's Wrong With The GMAT Exam?

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Dan Edmonds, a master GMAT tutor for Noodle Pros, has scored a perfect 800 on the GMAT three times in a row. As a result, he was banned from taking the test again. from Forbes Education

Joe Biden Struggles To Lift Heavy Education Baggage

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Joe Biden has announced his education plan. The best parts look a lot like the Bernie Sanders education plan; the worst parts are echoes of the Obama years. from Forbes Education

Here Are The Top 7 Websites For Free Online Education

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Here's how to get access to top-rated, online courses - for free. from Forbes Education

New Filipino Law Requires Every Student To Plant 10 Trees If They Want To Graduate

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The Philippines, a tropical island nation in the Pacific, will now require by law all graduating students from elementary school to college plant 10 trees each before they can graduate. from Forbes Education

NPR News: This Is The 92nd Year For The Scripps National Spelling Bee

This Is The 92nd Year For The Scripps National Spelling Bee NPR's Noel King talks to Shalini Shankar, author of "Beeline: What Spelling Bees Reveal About Generation Z's New Path to Success," about the competitors in the Scripps National Spelling Bee. Read more on NPR

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My 11yo wanted to know how to make a webpage, (finally!). Rather than me bore her, I wanted to find a basic HTML course. Found @khanacademy . All I can say is WOW! So so good. Within 2 hours she got the basics of HTML & CSS and made her first webpage! Thank you @khanacademy ! 🙏 — Lee Kelleher (@leekelleher) May 28, 2019

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What If Artificial Intelligence (AI) & Machine Learning (ML) Ruled the World?

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Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) in the form of conversational expert systems can be programmed to follow -- or reject -- first principles. Systems can be "liberal" or "conservative" depending on how they're programmed. We should be thinking seriously about ethics and AI. from Forbes Education

Five Reasons School Takeovers Fail

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Since policy writers and thinky tanks first started pushing the idea of identifying "failing" schools, the search has been on for a way to fix those schools. A popular choice has been the school takeover model, where the state strips the local school district of authority and steps in. from Forbes Education

Scientific Evidence Finally Backs Up Long-Held Theory That Processed Food Should Be Avoided

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For years, physicians, dietitians and dieters alike have been proposing that there is a connection between the rise of packaged, ultra-processed foods and America’s obesity epidemic. But “correlation is not causation, and controlled studies of what people actually eat are tough to do.” from Forbes Education