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Dwight Global Online School — #2 Best U.S. Online High School — Partners with the International Baccalaureate to Pilot the Diploma Programme Online

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The Cloud Campus of The Dwight Schools An Innovator in Global Education — Collaborates with the IB to Share Expertise and Make Education More Accessible

NEW YORK, Aug. 3, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — Dwight Global Online School — ranked the #2 best online high school in the U.S. by Newsweek — was selected by the International Baccalaureate (IB) as a partner to pilot the delivery of the two-year Diploma Programme (DP) in an online school environment. The pilot is designed to gain insights into the benefits of this pedagogical model and to make the DP more accessible to

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Booker, Blumenthal, Schatz, Wyden, Padilla Introduce College Athletes Bill of Rights

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WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senators Cory Booker (D-NJ), Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), Brian Schatz (D-HI), Ron Wyden (D-OR), and Alex Padilla (D-CA) introduced the College Athletes Bill of Rights, comprehensive legislation that will change the landscape of college sports and protect and expand the rights of college athletes. Increasingly, college sports have come to reflect many of the inequities that permeate life in America –where systems fail to protect those under their charge, where hard-working people are denied opportunities to benefit from their labor, and where systemic and structural racism disadvantages and exploits people of color. The College

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A conference seeks to define and explore Israel education – eJewish Philanthropy

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What is Israel education? Should it focus on Jewish power? Should it highlight Israel’s diversity? How should it overlap, if at all, with Israel advocacy? And how should it deal with the Israeli-Palestinian conflict?

Those were some of the questions debated at a panel on the first day of a virtual conference held by the Center for Israel Education (CIE). The conference, which began Sunday and ends on Tuesday, drew 57 attendees, all of whom teach about Israel or are otherwise connected to the field. 

The panel featured Tal Grinfas-David, CIE’s vice president of outreach and pre-collegiate school management

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MN Education Commissioner tours St. Cloud Tech High School

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Minnesota Department of Education Commissioner Heather Mueller speaks with St. Cloud Area School District 742 Superintendent Laurie Putnam Tuesday, August 2, 2022, at Tech High School in St. Cloud.

Minnesota Department of Education Commissioner Heather Mueller visited the summer learning program Tuesdayat St. Cloud Tech High School. Mueller met with students and staff to discuss the importance of summer learning and the benefits of the program.

Multilingual students participating in a summer learning program are learning interactive, hands-on algebra and coding skills in preparation for high school math and science courses. The purpose of the program is for students to improve their language skills while engaging in science, math and technology concepts.

On Tuesday a class of incoming freshmen were receiving hands-on learning about the effects of alcohol