Education News
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Oliva Gibbs Moves to New Space in Louisiana: Continues To Expand Team
Oliva Gibbs is pleased to share that the Lafayette team has relocated to new office space with additional capacity for continued strategic growth in the Louisiana market. The new office address is 4906 Ambassador Caffery Parkway, Building K, Lafayette, LA 70508. “This new location provides another exciting opportunity to expand the services we offer to clients active in the Louisiana upstream energy market,” said Partner, Brad Gibbs. The firm’s Lafayette office opened in 2022 and the Louisiana energy team now includes six attorneys. The group works with developers, owners, operators, producers and investors to navigate the distinct oil and gas laws and regulations governing natural resources in Louisiana, which have unique…
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Elite Law Schools Boycotted the U.S. News Rankings. Now, They May Be Paying a Price.
It may well be a circumstance of be careful what you would like for. 7 months in the past, dozens of elite regulation colleges and professional medical colleges announced that they were being boycotting the U.S. Information & World Report rankings and refusing to give the publication any data. The rankings, they said, have been unreliable and skewed academic priorities. Last 7 days, U.S. Information previewed its initial rankings given that the boycott — for the leading dozen or so regulation and clinical colleges only — and now, it seems, many of these very same colleges treatment fairly a great deal about their portrayal in the publication’s pecking order. In…
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Wyoming school leaders agree to ‘monumental’ remake of K-12 education
Wyoming’s top education leaders have agreed to collaborate on pilot projects that could kickstart the remaking of the state’s K-12 education system. In a first, a formal partnership will unite the Wyoming State Board of Education, Wyoming Department of Education, University of Wyoming and Gov. Mark Gordon’s office and their educational initiatives to put all of the state’s power behind transitioning education in Wyoming toward a system that’s center on individual student progress rather than seat time. “Our listening carefully to educators across Wyoming reveals a hunger for student-centered innovation and competency-based approaches to teaching and learning,” Scott Thomas, the dean of UW’s College of Education, said in a statement. “This deliberate…
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Higher education enrollment dropping in Michigan
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (Wooden) — Bigger education institutions in Michigan proceed to encounter challenges with enrollment. Western Michigan University’s Cooley Law Faculty stated it will not enroll an incoming 2023 summer season class. Having said that, it will carry on to hold courses in the summer time at its Michigan and Florida campuses and new students will be enrolled in the slide and spring. In accordance to knowledge from the American Bar Association, Cooley Legislation College had much more than 3,600 learners in the tumble of 2011. As of Oct. 2022, that range has fallen to all around 500. Ryan Fewins-Bliss, govt director of the Michigan College Accessibility Community, reported…
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First STAAR test in 2023 | Texas education news
TEA Deputy Commissioner of School Programs Lily Laux claimed college students shouldn’t worry in excess of the STAAR test, even with new alterations in place. HOUSTON — The initial STAAR examination of the year will be on Tuesday, and this year, the tests will glance a little distinct: They’ll be solely on-line. The Texas Education and learning Company has some recommendations for dad and mom to know. They are stressing that it really is not a higher-stakes exam for students and they’re self-assured with the on the internet structure. “We’re hunting ahead to looking at how it goes,” TEA Deputy Commissioner of University Packages Lily Laux claimed. The exam is…
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CT districts get creative with teacher recruitment, retention
The city of Waterbury has never experienced a particularly uncomplicated time getting teachers, superintendent Verna Ruffin states, but this calendar year was much more difficult than at any time. Amid a statewide educator shortage that has taxed bad, urban districts most, Waterbury had tried out recruiting workers by choice certification attempts and partnerships with local universities and a variety of other initiatives but however observed by itself with far more than 200 vacancies coming into previous slide. “We have normally been challenged in some of the difficult-to-fill places, but this 12 months it can be been just about each situation,” Ruffin said. Ruffin had frequently listened to academics say they valued skilled…