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Best Open Access Journals and Scholarly Articles for Research Students

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Unfortunately, a sizeable portion of this academic scholarship is locked behind paywalls thus restricting its access to those who can afford to pay. Several researchers and students are unable to afford the high costs required for access thus crippling their efforts to participate in the generation of quality knowledge.

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iCivics Offers Tons of Free Resources and Tools to Promote Civics Education

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iCivics is an educational website that offers access to a wide variety of learning resources that include games, curriculum materials, lesson plans, webquests, and videos. These resources are accessible from the Teach hub and are organized by topic. Webquests are composed of slides, resource links, and questions. These include: 1.

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Los Angeles School District Launched a Splashy AI Chatbot. What Exactly Does It Do?

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While many publications wrote about the announcement at the nation's second-largest public school, details about what the $6 million system actually does have been thin. Typically these tools can only be accessed as independent entities where a student has to go through a different login for each of these tools,” she added.

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International Education During the Pandemic

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There was a significant problem in Argentina with access to instruction because of connectivity, which was also endemic to the community I served here in the states. Reliable access was such a problem in Argentina that students did not even bother to attend classes. BMC Public Health 21, 1035 (2021). Scarpellini, F.,

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Creative Fabrica–the Perfect Solution for Teachers, Creators, and Anyone In a Hurry

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Users can access fonts, graphics, SVG files, 3D, tools, bundles, embroidery designs, mockups, teacher resources, and more for various creative projects. They offer over 9 million products from 50,000 designers besides what users design themselves. 100% of the fee paid by buyers is passed on to the creator.

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A Third of Homeless Students Are Chronically Absent. Would an ‘Attendance Culture’ Help?

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The places where the adults tasked with that responsibility (known as McKinney-Vento workers because of the law that funds their jobs) connected with these students, like public libraries, closed down. These students are also at an increased risk for chronic absenteeism, missing 10 percent — or more — of the school year.

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Schools Use Trial and Error for Choosing Edtech, But They Don’t Have to

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trillion infrastructure bill into law, our nation is poised to make historic investments in its highways, public transit, railways, airports, ports, water systems, broadband networks and electric grid. With President Biden’s signature turning the $1.2 A key reason? There is no need to reinvent the wheel.

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