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Why I'm Still Bullish About the State of Edtech

Edsurge

This year’s 1 3th edition will swamp San Diego’s waterfront for four days and feature 1,000 speakers, including Thomas Friedman and Margaret Atwood, plus the buzziest for-profit companies in our industry. It’s hard to remember now, but many industry colleagues felt edtech was a frothy market in 2017. LTM revenue.

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How online learning can bridge the math gap

eSchool News

In a 2021 study , more than half of public-school K-12 teachers said the pandemic resulted in a “significant” learning loss for many students. During the initial phase of COVID-19 lockdowns, Generation Alpha (born 2010-2024) and Generation Z (born 1995-2009) had to pivot to virtual-only school platforms. As the U.S.

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Tech Apprenticeships Shift the Costs of Higher Ed From Students to Employers

Edsurge

They’re designed to help people kick off careers in growing industries that pay well above minimum wage. registered apprenticeship programs grew 73 percent between 2009 and 2019. And the potential for apprenticeships to diversify the tech industry is a key message that providers like Woz U and Multiverse use to market their services.

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PROOF POINTS: Rural American students shift away from math and science during high school, study finds

The Hechinger Report

Some of the clues are contained in this June 2021 data analysis conducted by two researchers at Claremont Graduate University and Indiana University. They scrutinized a large federal dataset of more than 20,000 students across the nation who started high school in 2009 and were surveyed through to their third year of college in 2016.

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MIND Participates in SETDA and ECS Edtech Policy Discussions

MIND Research Institute

Funded by a grant from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, the project aims to release public recommendations on upload/download requirements in early 2021. education” to shift as effectively as other industries have done. With ARRA, the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 , funding was aligned with state population.

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Degreed Raises $75 Million to Expand Corporate Learning Platform

Edsurge

Degreed exists in a competitive industry, with former massive open online course providers that once focused on universities expanding into corporate learning. A National Association for Business Economics survey this month put the odds of this happening before 2021 at 60 percent.

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Implementing Innovation Strategies to Make School Districts More Equitable

edWeb.net

The disruptions and changes during the past year have made a return to the industrial education model of the 19th and 20th centuries problematic for school districts committed to preparing diverse students for 21st century careers. By Robert Low. WATCH THE EDWEBINAR RECORDING. LISTEN TO THE PODCAST.