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ScienceNews for Students | Student Science - 0 views

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Current events related to science.

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Learning Never Stops: Picclick - Visual search engine for eBay and Etsy - 0 views

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Description of a visual search engine for eBay and Etsy.

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Visual search engine for eBay and Etsy.

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9 sources of news for kids that you may not know about - 0 views

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Current events sites

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Current event site that can be searched by themes and reading levels.

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TweenTribune | News for Kids | tweentribune.com | News for tweens, kids and students - 0 views

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From blogger Mike Sheehan: Tween Tribune posts age appropriate news stories found on the internet for students grades K-12. The stories are sorted by age group and there is spanish section as well. At the end of each story, students can respond by leaving comments or take a quiz.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">From blogger Mike Sheehan: Tween Tribune posts age appropriate news stories found on the internet for students grades K-12. The stories are sorted by age group and there is spanish section as well. At the end of each story, students can respond by leaving comments or take a quiz.</div>

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Why Do Teachers Quit? - Liz Riggs - The Atlantic - 0 views

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Ingersoll extrapolated and then later confirmed that anywhere between 40 and 50 percent of teachers will leave the classroom within their first five years
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ut, turnover in teaching is about four percent higher than other professions.
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Why are all these teachers leaving—or not even entering the classroom in the first place?
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“Teachers in schools do not call the shots. They have very little say. They’re told what to do; it’s a very disempowered line of work.”
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if you want to have a family, or you want to have some leisure time, you know, how do you sustain that?”
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many young teachers soon realize they must do overwhelming amounts of after-hours work. They pour out emotional energy into their work, which breeds quick exhaustion. And they experience the frustrating uphill battle that comes along with teaching—particularly in low-performing schools.
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What people are asked to do is only the kind of thing that somebody can do for two or three years; you couldn’t sustain that level of intensity throughout a career,” said Thomas Smith, a professor at Vanderbilt University’s education school.
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Many of them cited “personal reasons,” ranging from individual stress levels to work-life balance struggles.
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“What many of them working in high-need schools told me, however, was that being successful at school directly conflicted with being successful husbands and fathers. While this is certainly true of any occupation, most occupations don't leave your children asking you, ‘Why do you go to more basketball games of the kids at school than mine?’"
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Higher pay doesn’t necessarily lead to a better retention rate, though.
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Most teachers sounded simply frustrated, overworked and underpaid—sentiments that are certainly echoed in the research. 
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“Those schools that do a far better job of managing and coping with and responding to student behavioral issues have far better teacher retention,”
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“Respected, well-paid lines of work do not have shortages,”
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If the overall attractiveness of teaching as a profession gets better, the best teachers will enter the profession, stay, and help increase the effectiveness of schools.
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Article refers to research on why teachers are apt to quit.

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Don't Blame Social Media if Your Teen Is Unsocial. It's Your Fault | Wired Opinion | Wi... - 0 views

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Lots of work offers the opposite conclusion, such as Pew surveys finding that kids who text the most also socialize the most in person.
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If kids can’t socialize, who should parents blame? Simple: They should blame themselves. This is the argument advanced in It’s Complicated: The Social Lives of Networked Teens, by Microsoft researcher Danah Boyd.
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a metronomic diet of horrifying but rare child-abduction stories, and parents shortened the leash on their kids
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increased competition to get into college meant well-off parents began heavily scheduling their kids’ after-school lives.
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Another perspective on teens and social media. Blames parents, tight schedules and kidnapping as reasons for why kids don't hang out in public spaces and instead turn to social media.

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