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The ‘Enrichment Gap’ Is Widening. Students’ Social-Emotional Development Is at Risk.

Edsurge

Wealthy families’ annual per-child expenditures on enrichment activities nearly tripled between 1972 and 2006 (from $3,536 to $8,872) while low-income families remained stagnant at around $1,000. We’ve seen edtech companies pivot by pouring more money into direct-to-consumer platforms, which benefits those who can afford to pay the price.

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SIIA, a Pioneering Convenor for the Edtech Industry, Scraps Its Conferences

Edsurge

Its early work focused on lobbying on behalf of its members, which also included companies across the banking, financial and trade publishing sectors. SIIA also created an “incubator” program in 2006 to support early-stage education companies, long before the idea became popular in the edtech industry. billion in U.S.

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Chinese New Year- What Animal Am I?

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

1934, 1946, 1958, 1970, 1982, 1994, 2006, 2018, 2030), you are likely to be a person who is loyal, loves to snuggle, is attentive to details, and loves company. NG) This post originally appeared in Educational Technology and Mobile Learning ( www.educatorstechnology.com ). If you were born in the Dog year (e.g.,

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5 Ways Adobe Premiere Rush Encourages Creativity in the Classroom

The CoolCatTeacher

For example, since I started teaching moviemaking with my students in 2006, I have used a Storyboard Dictionary of shots that I originally adapted from the American Film Institute. I love that this works with their individual mobile phone cameras. Often, I start teaching film by having students create a living shot dictionary.

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Community Colleges Have Long Powered the Economy. To Sustain That Role, They Must Innovate.

Edsurge

Industrialization, Economic Mobility and Community Colleges Reflecting on the advancements of the 19th century, the age of industrialization brought about great prosperity for the U.S., These schools served as the gateway to social and economic mobility and played a significant role in the movement toward greater gender and racial equity.

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Google Offers Free Cloud Access to Colleges, Plays Catch Up to Amazon, Microsoft

Edsurge

Amazon Web Services has dominated the cloud service business by being around longest (2006) and nabbing corporate and governmental customers like Comcast, Adobe and the Department of Defense. Birman says he expects students to develop major products, many of which go on to launch as product companies. Google breaking in? .

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Will the coronavirus transform or destroy higher education as we know it?

The Hechinger Report

In 2006, journalist Daniel Golden exposed how President Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, found his way into Harvard despite lackluster grades with the help of his dad’s $2.5 The Merit Myth” describes how higher education gives lip service to the promise of social mobility, while remaining ever more segregated by class and race.

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