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School in Washington State goes outdoors

In Port Townsend, Washington, the Peninsula Daily News reports that a local school named Swan School students will spend most of their time outdoors this year. Volunteers and teachers are creating new outdoor cla . . .

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Nearly 40 per cent of Hong Kong kindergartens at risk of closing unless government offers more aid, poll finds

A very worrying article from the SCMP reports on the difficulties faced by almost half of all Hong Kong kindergartens as a result of the Corona pandemic. Nearly 40 per cent of kindergartens warn they might be for . . .

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Coronavirus: Poor pupils facing 'two-year catch up after lockdown'

According to a BBC report, lockdown already widened learning gaps between richer and poorer primary school children in England. Children from poorer families did at least one hour less learning a day compared wit . . .

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At least five Hong Kong universities see drop in non-local applications despite generous scholarship schemes to boost competitiveness

At least five universities in Hong Kong have reported a drop in non-local applications for undergraduate or postgraduate programmes in the new academic year, despite generous scholarship schemes rolled out to boos . . .

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GCE A-levels and GCSEs: U-turn as teacher estimates to be used for exam results

  Chalkface has been following the developing story on how May/June cancelled exam session grades are to be awarded.  This article from the BBC gives the latest updates. A-level and GCSE students in En . . .

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Serena Williams donates 4.25 million face masks to schools in the US.

Ben Church from CNN reports that the Wimbledon champion is teaming up with t-shirt company Bella+Canvas, the School Board Association, and Scholastic in order to provide face masks to children in need as kids prep . . .

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Friday round-up - a range of educational highlights from around the globe

Good debate in historical context about value of online learning (Full article - THE) Radical approach to innovation in education from Singapore (Full article - THE) India student body potential set to make impa . . .

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Improving Breakout Room Discussions in Online Teaching by Using Collaborative Documents

Here is a great article from Faculty Focus offering some very helpful advice and tips to teachers on how to better run Break Out room discussions when teaching classes online. It starts by advising that there are . . .

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