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August Awareness: National Back to School Month

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For students, teachers, parents, and guardians across the nation, the arrival of August signals the end of summer vacation and the arrival of back-to-school season. National Back to School Month History. National Back to School Month History. How to celebrate National Back to School Month. Junior Achievement.

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The kids are not alright. Here’s how philanthropy can help  

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The pandemic’s impact on chronic absence Chronic absence— missing at least 10% of school days in one academic year—is a significant driver of the low literacy and numeracy skills reflected in the KIDS COUNT data. The number of chronically absent students nearly doubled from 16% in the 2018–19 school year to 30% in 2021–22.

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Forum One Wins 10 Davey Awards

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Overall, this work has helped to empower NRDC’s content managers, engage their audience, and amplify their impact. National Rural Health Resource Center Gold – Health The National Rural Health Resource Center provides technical assistance, information, tools, and resources for the improvement of rural health care.

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3 Nonprofits Doing Cool Things With Tech

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Walden Woods Project uses Skype to reach classrooms. The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees shared the idea of connecting aid workers with students to share experiences. Teachers are connecting speakers from across the globe to their classrooms, The Chronicle of Philanthropy reports.

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Grow the Human Skills: Critical Thinking, Creativity, Collaboration, and Communication

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According to a study from Goldman Sachs, “Generative AI tools could impact 300 million full-time jobs worldwide, which could lead to a significant disruption in the job market.” Practice Critical Thinking The Summit supercomputer at Oak Ridge National Laboratory can perform 10.51 quadrillion floating-point operations per second.

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Weekly update from PND

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The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation , Citi, and others announced commitments in support of climate action on the second day of the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26) being held in Glasgow, Scotland. Gates, Citi announce climate action commitments at COP26. November 4, 2021. November 3, 2021. Read more.

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Gyrus named Specialist in the 2023 Aragon Research Globe™ for Corporate Learning

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Reach is defined as being national, international, or global in nature. “We believe our investment in AR/VR partnership, Content integration, and Learning Experience is making the right impact on our customers and industry.” Reach, is a measure of the global capability that a vendor can execute.