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OPINION: Banning legacy admissions will deliver another blow to the children of Black alumni

The Hechinger Report

Eleven percent of the class of 2027 are legacies; the numbers were 12 percent for the class of 2026 and 14 percent for the class of 2025. The overall acceptance rate for the class of 2027 was 4.35 percent , the lowest in recent history. Yale had 602 Black undergraduates on campus last fall, making up 8.8

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CASE Once Again Endorses Classworks® Special Education Platform

eSchool News

This month, CASE re-endorsed Classworks as a top-tier special education resource through 2027. CASE has recognized Classworks as a tool that “successfully addresses the inherent challenges of special education,” since 2010. Every three years, the platform undergoes a rigorous evaluation by the CASE Executive Committee.

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Climate Change Took a Heavy Toll on the U.S. Last Year. What’s the Cost to Education?

Edsurge

“I hope that it doesn't take until 2027 for education to be like, ‘We need to start thinking about climate change,’” Davis says, “because what will happen is those [schools] that have resources and access will already be prepared with electric vehicles, with solar panels.

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Texas Education Agency Names Curriculum Associates’ i-Ready® Assessment as an Approved Grade 7 Reading Instrument

eSchool News

In accordance with the Texas Education Code, all approved assessments—including i-Ready —can be used during the 2023–2024 school year through the 2026–2027 school year. Teacher-led and personalized instruction continue throughout the year to help students address their learning gaps and access grade-level learning.

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OPINION: The pandemic wiped out decades of progress for preschoolers. It’s time to get them back on track

The Hechinger Report

For the roughly 25 percent of American children who live in California, Colorado, Hawaii, Illinois, Michigan, New Jersey and New Mexico, the inability to access pre-K could become a thing of the past. The initiatives vary in their origins and timelines.

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How eBook Reader Devices are Changing the Publishing Industry

Kitaboo on EdTech

This is evident from the fact that the eBook market is expected to grow by 2.00% from 2023 to 2027, reaching a market volume of US $15.33 billion by 2027, according to Statista. They offer access to a vast selection of eBooks across different genres, languages, and formats.

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OPINION: Let’s use the pandemic as a dress-rehearsal for much-needed digital transformation

The Hechinger Report

What should come next is an examination of how schools can more deeply and deliberately harness technology to make high-quality learning accessible to every learner, even in the wake of a crisis. As we’ve seen over the last two years, educational equity, crisis preparedness and access to technology are deeply intertwined.