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Student-Teachers In Limbo During School Shutdowns. Here's How States Can Help

Teacher-preparation programs are rushing to figure out how to support teacher-candidates while still meeting state requirements, which are starting to be revised in some places.




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Epson WorkForce ES-500WR Wireless Document Scanner—Accounting Edition

The Epson WorkForce ES-500WR delivers fast and accurate scans paired with a robust software package that will appeal to data-crunching offices.




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Brother ADS-1700W

The Brother ADS-1700W is a fast and accurate portable document scanner that offers a slew of features that will appeal to road warriors.




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Canon CanoScan LiDE 400

The entry-level Canon CanoScan LiDE 400 is a software-rich flatbed photo scanner that also handles text documents with ease.




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Canon CanoScan LiDE 300

For an occasional-use photograph and document scanner, the entry-level flatbed CanoScan LiDE 300 is a good value, but its LiDE 400 sibling is only $20 more and comes with valuable extras.




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Brother ADS-1250W Wireless Compact Color Desktop Scanner

The Brother ADS-1250W is a fast and accurate, no-nonsense portable document scanner for the small-business traveler.




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Get Organized: How to Scan Your Old Photos

It's time to free your old photos from shoeboxes and albums no one ever looks at. Scanning your photos makes them more shareable, searchable, and resistant to disasters. Productivity expert Jill Duffy tells you how to get started.




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Save Big on HP Tango, Sprocket Printer Bundle Today

Designed to work primarily with mobile devices, the Tango is one of the first printers to feature voice control. The portable Sprocket, meanwhile, lets you print photos from your phone.




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How to Share Files and Printers in Windows

You can network your Windows 10 PCs and tablets to share files and printers. Windows 7 and 8.1 users can still use homegroups.




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Readers' Choice Awards 2019: Printers

If you want new printer, there's only one manufacturer to consider—the same printer maker PCMag readers have rated the very best for more than a decade.




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Business Choice Awards 2019: Printers

Brother International has long dominated PCMag's Business Choice Awards for printers, but this year it's joined by another top contender.




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Amazon Teases Prime Day Deals on Speakers, Tablets, TVs, More

On the tech front, expect deals on Alexa smart speakers and displays, Fire TV media streamers, Fire tablets, Kindle ebook readers, home security devices, TVs, gaming gear, printers, and more.




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What to Do When Your Printer Won't Print a Document

Having printer problems? Whether it's a software issue, a hardware problem, or something else, here's how to troubleshoot your printer.




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Purpose and Performance in Teacher Performance Pay

“How about defining student and teacher performance based on what parents and citizens actually want for their children—all of the goals, not just one,” suggests Donald B. Gratz.




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Poll Finds School Leaders Cool to Performance Pay

A survey by the American Association of School Administrators finds fewer than half interested in such compensation plans.




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Iowa Ready To Weigh Statewide Teacher-Performance Pay

Iowa appears to be poised to consider a pay-for-performance compensation plan for teachers, following the lead of a handful of districts and schools that have embraced the controversial policy.




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Nebraska Approves Performance Pay, K-12 Funding Boost

Teacher performance pay may soon be coming to the Cornhusker State.




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Denver Pay Plan Offers Lessons, Review Says

Some said it would devastate working relationships between teachers. It hasn't. Others hoped it would dramatically raise student performance. Not so far.




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Why Pay Incentives Are Destined to Fail

They have disappointed in industry, writes author and educator Andrea Gabor, and in schools they could undermine reform.




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Anthony Colucci: Rally to Restore Sanity in Education

In a shocking display of ignorance, pay for performance has become reformers' blitzkrieg. Both common sense and research are being ignored.




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Ed. Dept. Announces New Grants Under Teacher Incentive Fund

Federal education officials have begun announcing a new round of grants from the Teacher Incentive Fund.




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Teacher Incentive Fund Awards Its Last Grants for Fiscal Year

Another dozen school districts have landed federal Teacher Incentive Fund grants, including one that will focus on paying principals and assistant principals for their performance.




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Governors Urged to Push Pay Strategies

New ways of paying teachers launched by districts such as Denver and Houston are alone unlikely to produce the sweeping change that is needed on the compensation front, a report from the National Governors Association says.




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Are You Eligible for Merit Pay? Many Teachers Don't Know

Basing teachers' pay on merit might give a small boost to students' reading achievement—if teachers understand how it works.




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Denver Teachers to Strike Over Merit-Pay System

In Denver, teachers will go on strike Monday to protest a performance-pay system that’s been in place for 15 years. The dispute is illustrative of a larger national shift away from differentiated pay.




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Support and Accountability for Public and Private Principals

New data from the National Center for Education Statistics find that principals at private schools tend to have more experience, 9.7 years on average leading schools versus 6.8 years for public school principals.




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School Leader Accountability Is Missing in Action

Teachers need coaching from proactive and intentional leaders who see everything in their buildings as their responsibility, writes guest blogger Michael Sonbert. Until then, teachers will bear the brunt of our national criticism.




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Dickinson Business Law Society offering virtual pop-up clinics for entrepreneurs

When people can’t leave their houses to attend an event, you bring the event to them. With residents across Pennsylvania sheltering in place during the COVID-19 pandemic, Penn State Dickinson Law’s Business Law Society is converting two upcoming entrepreneur pop-up clinics to virtual sessions, allowing people to participate from their homes.




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Abington crisis communication course tackles COVID-19 pandemic

Students enrolled in a crisis management course are examining the pandemic and its lessons and developing recommendations that the government and even individuals can follow. It's the kind of real-world experience that students can expect to have at Penn State Abington.




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Using historical lessons and creative instruction to support students

Penn State Abington faculty are using the current situation as an opportunity to enrich students academically and support them personally during this period of remote learning. "What may be most inspiring of all is the deep-seated concern for our students that faculty efforts expose,” said Friederike Baer, division head for Arts and Humanities.




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Abington nutritionist shares science behind nutrition

Despite what people may read or hear from friends and family, there are no magical foods or pills that are guaranteed to protect against COVID-19, according to Wendy Richman, who teaches nutrition at Penn State Abington.




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Positive psychology course translates into support for students during pandemic

A Penn State Abington faculty member is teaching students enrolled to integrate the content into their daily lives to help them manage the impact of the coronavirus.




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Abington students pivot to present undergraduate research fair online

Penn State Abington students involved in undergraduate research quickly designed ways to present their findings online. It mirrors a global effort as many academic conferences transitioned to online due to the coronavirus pandemic.




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Schuylkill Speaks: Senior biology major Steve Shalamanda eyes optometry degree

Senior Steven Shalamanda began his education at Penn State Schuylkill knowing he was interested in becoming an optometrist. But it was this high-achieving biology student’s internship with a local practice that affirmed his vision for the future. In fall 2020, Shalamanda will begin his doctor of optometry program at the Pennsylvania College of Optometry.




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UEFA Women's EURO facts and figures




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UEFA announces global deal with Booking.com

UEFA and Booking.com have announced a four-year global partnership for all UEFA national team football competitions from 2018 to 2022, including UEFA EURO 2020.




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UEFA report: registered female footballers on the rise

UEFA's 'Women's football across the national associations 2017' report shows how the female game has evolved over the past five years, and offers a snapshot of the sport in each of UEFA's 55 member associations.




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Women's Player of the Year shortlist: Harder, Hegerberg, Henry

Pernille Harder, Ada Hegerberg and Amandine Henry are shortlisted for the 2017/18 UEFA Women's Player of the Year award.




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Pernille Harder wins UEFA Women's Player of the Year award

Pernille Harder of Wolfsburg and Denmark has been voted the 2017/18 UEFA Women's Player of the Year.




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England to host UEFA Women's EURO 2021

England has been selected to host the 16-team UEFA Women's EURO 2021.




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Lucy Bronze named UEFA Women's Player of the Year

Lyon and England right-back Lucy Bronze is the first defender to win the poll of coaches and journalists.




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How brilliant is UEFA women's award winner Lucy Bronze?

The first defender to win the UEFA Women's Player of the Year award: we salute Lyon and England right-back Lucy Bronze.




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How brilliant is all-time top scorer Ada Hegerberg?

The all-time top UEFA women's club scorer among many, many honours: we salute Ada Hegerberg.




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Busting the Zip Code Curse with Blended Learning

Online learning holds great potential to transform rural education by ensuring that every student has access to great instruction.




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Response: Blended Learning Is 'the Next Generation of Education'

Angel Cintron Jr., Connie Parham, Catlin Tucker, Sheri Edwards, Cheryl Costello, William J. Tolley and George Station explore what blended learning is and how it can be made most effective.




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7 Ways to Break Bad Blended Learning

What separates transformative teachers, schools, and districts from those stuck in the routines of the past? The country's best blended teachers have uncovered these commonalities.




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Key to Blended Learning: Data-Informed Small Groups

A recent school tour of three Bay Area schools with some blended learning experts helped provide answers to some of the common questions we hear about how to implement blended learning.




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Creating Successful Blended-Learning Classrooms

History teacher Bill Tolley offers tips on adapting to learning environments that combine face-to-face instruction with self-directed online experiences.