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Empowering girls with STEM education to build tomorrow’s tech industry

eSchool News

Consequently, students who face difficulties in meeting academic standards might find themselves lacking the requisite skills and knowledge to effectively pursue careers in IT. These educational setbacks could further perpetuate the gender gap in an industry where women accounted for just 28 percent of the STEM workforce in 2023.

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Approaching an Online Computer Science Degree: What You Need to Know

EdTech4Beginners

In today’s digitally-driven world, a degree in computer science not only opens doors to cutting-edge careers but also arms you with skills that are increasingly crucial in various industries. Understanding the Online Learning Environment Embracing the online learning landscape is the first step toward your academic success.

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LearnWith.AI Launches TeachTap, the first AI-powered learning app for AP exam prep and high school courses

eSchool News

By combining a social media-style interface with academically rigorous content, TeachTap makes learning more fun, efficient and accessible than ever before. All TeachTap course material is trained on the exact curriculum set by the College Board and Common Core educational standards.

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Turning ‘Google Maps for Education’ From Metaphor to Reality

Edsurge

But in the field of education, we don’t even have a complete set of static competency frameworks for digital data that are openly accessible and interoperable—to say nothing of dynamic data that support real-time pathway optimization. To bridge the gulf, it will take a similar open-data ecosystem to support learner navigation. K-12 learners.

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Why Efforts to Improve Teacher Productivity and Efficiency May Not Pay Off

Edsurge

In today’s workforce, one employee backed up by teams of experts providing training, tools, just-in-time access to materials and data can perform work that once required dozens of line workers. In contrast, the American education system, despite efforts to centralize elements like academic standards, remains enormously fragmented.

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Schools Say Highest Pressure from Students’ Social and Emotional Needs

EdNews Daily

Then a re-write of academic standards that had to be mapped to teaching and learning, constantly in revision. Fixers are almost universally introspective insiders, tweaking the existing standard structure. . True personalization is being done in nearly every other industry, but not here, not at scale.

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Making the case for common K-12 standards

eSchool News

In order to innovate in ways that anticipate and serve the needs of teachers and students, standards are applied to how OER is tagged, how tags support one another, and the editorial style that is imposed upon all metadata. One of the most common sets of structures are academic standards. The Value of Common Standards in OER.

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