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The Facts About Women and STEM

We agree with the tactics to solve the problem and hope to encourage schools to offer more diverse class offerings for students at a younger age in order to get all students hooked on science, tech, engineering and math as soon as possible in their education careers.

2 days ago by Guest Author

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Alumni Engagement | On Gratitude and Our Students

So this Thanksgiving when our students and Alumni go around the table to say grace – whether they sit down in front of turkey or tamales – many will list College Summit among the blessings in their life, for giving them the tools to get into college and the support to know they’ll make it to graduation.

3 days ago by Guest Author

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Disrupting the Space-Time Continuum: Competency-based Learning Explained

Competency-based learning allows students to circumvent the accumulation of excessive and often-wasted credits simply for the sake of fulfilling (what many believe to be) an arbitrarily defined term of study along the aforementioned continuum.

5 days ago by Guest Author

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Building A Car: A STEM Collaboration

Partnerships of one First Grade student with one Eighth Grade student were made along with a ploy; each pair must design and then build a toy car for a local toy company. The parameters where that the car must be able to move. Cars will be tested for how far they travel. The buy in was audible with cheers from the stud...

9 days ago by Guest Author

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Finding the Path to Service and Impact

As I became increasingly aware of the issues related to public education in the US, education, always a point of interest, now became a passion in its own right for me. With all this as a backdrop, I then received an email from The Broad Residency through the Stanford MBA alumni listserv

9 days ago by Guest Author

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Foundation for Excellence in Education

The Foundation for Excellence in Education is igniting a movement of reform, state by state, to transform education for the 21st century economy. Excellence in Action, the organization’s flagship initiative, is working with lawmakers and policymakers to advance education reform across America.

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What Common Core Means to Military Families: A Student’s Perspective

I spent my whole childhood as a military child, so moving around was a pretty common occurrence. In fact, I moved 12 times by my 18th birthday, which included attending four different high schools.

10 days ago by Guest Author

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Digital Learning from the Student Perspective

Online learning has the flexibility that normal schools don't. I can learn as fast as I can. I can run through my course in a month, or I can do it in a few months. I can be a snail or a beam of light.

12 days ago by Guest Author