One Hundred Leaders’ View on the Back to School Challenge

August 4, 2020

Over the last few months, the i-Ready team has had a chance to talk to more than 100 district leaders about the challenges they face as they plan for the 2020–2021 school year. We explored their challenges, their reasons to be hopeful, and the tools they believe will be most important for success in the year ahead. While every leader we spoke with had unique stories and circumstances, there were remarkable commonalities in the challenges they described.

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ScienceFairFun

Science Fair Fun is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) that helps to break the cycle of K-12 science education inequities. We foster students’ development of skills that they need to prepare for engineering and technology careers. We do this through a new, innovative approach to supporting families and schools during Science & Engineering Fairs. At Science Fair Fun, we bring inclusive and skills-based Science & Engineering Fairs to schools that don’t have fairs, and we serve those who are underrepresented in Science, Technology, Engineering & Math (STEM), namely girls, minorities, and those from low-income communities.

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1st Annual Merrimack College Teacher Survey: 2022 Results

whitePaper | October 28, 2022

The survey results suggest a deep disillusionment of many teachers who feel overworked, underpaid, and under-appreciated, with potential implications for a once-in-a-generation shift in the teaching profession.

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Reliability Management: Setting-up Cloud Server in Higher Education

whitePaper | November 6, 2019

Higher Education resources is a small group of social media strategists which is planning to include two dedicated cloud servers in their organization [28]. One will be used for Primary Operation Services and other one will be for Standby Operation Services which is mirrored from the primary server. To setup these two servers they are considering to hire Tech company which is a newly medium sized cloud service provider.

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Task Force on Higher Education Financing and Student Outcomes

whitePaper | February 14, 2020

Establish a $5 billion annual matching grant to help states address unmet need and improve student outcomes. This “federal-state partnership” would reward states based on measures of affordability, tax effort, and productivity. States would be required to use these grant funds to reduce unmet need or improve outcomes among low- and middle-income students. 2. Increase mandatory Pell funding by $9 billion per year, with expanded eligibility for middle-income households and capped at the fourth income quartile. This would reduce unmet need for low- and middle-income students, making higher education more affordable and accessible.

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High-Quality Professional Learning for Project-Based Learning

whitePaper | October 8, 2022

Supporting teachers in shifting to rigorous project-based learning requires a meaningful and sustained approach to professional learning rather than relying on disjointed, one-time workshops

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A Human-Centered Vision for Quality Virtual Learning

whitePaper | August 1, 2022

Count educators, students and their families among those who struggled over the last two years, as K-12 schools became the epicenter of turmoil in local communities. Districts faced more scrutiny than ever — with the media tracking remote learning and safety measures as closely as rising COVID-19 cases and with parents gaining a daily window into what their students were (or weren’t) learning. Districts also dealt with the operational and instructional hurdles of “emergency room-to-Zoom” and keeping staff and students healthy, two challenges they had never faced before

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Seven Secrets for Successful e-Training Implementation

whitePaper | August 9, 2022

Picture the last time you rolled out an online learning solution. The IT team put the link onto the intranet training page, and HR sent an email to the workforce letting them know the training was available. Then sat back and watched. And waited. And after the first little flurry of registrations, enthusiasm waned, few courses were completed and even fewer people registered after the first few weeks. And worst of all, you didn’t see the productivity and quality benefits the training should have delivered.

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ScienceFairFun

Science Fair Fun is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) that helps to break the cycle of K-12 science education inequities. We foster students’ development of skills that they need to prepare for engineering and technology careers. We do this through a new, innovative approach to supporting families and schools during Science & Engineering Fairs. At Science Fair Fun, we bring inclusive and skills-based Science & Engineering Fairs to schools that don’t have fairs, and we serve those who are underrepresented in Science, Technology, Engineering & Math (STEM), namely girls, minorities, and those from low-income communities.

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