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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. NASDAQ: UDMY), and Nerdy, Inc.

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New Program Gives High School Students Training and Job Placement in an Allied Healthcare Career

eSchool News

When the student successfully completes the online didactic training and has graduated, they are able to funnel directly into open jobs with partner employers or if they choose, take advantage of the MedCerts Prior Learning Assessment Credit Transfer Ecosystem and gain college credit at a reputable college.

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Characteristics of The 21st Century Teachers

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

because teaching is no longer an isolated profession; it’s a dynamic and interconnected field requiring teachers to work collaboratively and build expansive professional and personal learning networks. Networking, both in-person and online through social media, educational blogs, video conferences, and forums, plays a crucial role.

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Higher education in India is moving ahead on the global stage.

Linways Technologies

The Ministry of Human Resource Development has set a target of achieving 32% GER by 2022. This is a huge let down for industry participation in education, which is crucial if we were to develop programs to meet the global standards. Postgraduate enrolments have more than doubled since 2009-10. in 2014-15 to 26.3 in 2018-19.

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Traveling to the African Diaspora to prepare black students for college

The Hechinger Report

This year, she took 25 students to Belize, where they learned about the Garifuna and Mayan cultures. Douglass High School in New Orleans learned to play the Garifuna spiritual rhythm, a beat called the HunguHungu, at Palmento Grove Cultural Center. She hadn’t just learned to navigate airports and new cuisines.

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COLUMN: There’s a lot of new federal money for greening K-12 education. This is how schools could use it

The Hechinger Report

In Denver, students organized for a year and a half and succeeded in getting the school board to adopt a new climate policy in April 2022. Related: Canceled classes, sweltering classrooms: How extreme heat impairs learning. We’ve saved $500,000 per year in electricity through conservation compared to 2009,” she said.