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Colleges now produce fewer Black graduates in math and engineering

The Hechinger Report

When we’re working on group projects, they’ll say things like, ‘You can do the typing,’ as opposed to getting into the nitty-gritty of how to build this robot,” she said. That’s a worrying trend for a profession in which Black people are already underrepresented. Sometimes it feels like I have to prove myself all over again.”.

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Pandemic speeds up influx of remote workers to small cities

The Hechinger Report

Exactly how many remote workers live in Burlington “is hard to gauge because we all are sort of like hermit crabs in our own little shells and under our own little rocks,” said Tyler Littwin, art director at the marketing software developer HubSpot, who moved here from HubSpot’s headquarters outside Boston and started telecommuting in 2013.

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Online Learning's 'Greatest Hits'

Edsurge

As sophisticated digital skills—capabilities ironically found more commonly among students—became decisive, two new trends emerged. Launched in 2013, XuetangX, the Chinese platform in third place, claims 18 million. They knew it was an inventive departure, but they were taken aback when an astonishing 160,000 signed up.

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The Asian Money Fueling US Edtech Investments

Edsurge

The trend is not unique to Hollywood; other American businesses— from appliance makers to luxury resorts —are similarly entangled with Asian money. million (Seed) 2015 Sinovation Ventures Ready4 $8 million (A) 2016 TAL Education, Yongjin Group, ZhenFund Securly $3 million (Seed) 2013 Sinovation Ventures, ZhenFund Swing Education $7.8

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When the waters rise, how will we keep schools open?

The Hechinger Report

But that school closed after she finished first grade in 2013, a victim of declining enrollment after relentless flooding and job losses drove families from the area. It closed in 2013 when the enrollment dropped from 127 to 87 within five years. So she wasn’t surprised when Boudreaux Canal closed, too.

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The Best Way to Predict the Future is to Issue a Press Release

Hack Education

As I have done for the past six years, I will spend the rest of November and December publishing my review of what I deem the “Top Ed-Tech Trends” of the year. I pick ten trends and themes in order to closely at the recent past, the near-term history of education technology. (Of The quotation is from 2012.

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'The Brave Little Surveillance Bear' and Other Stories We Tell About Robots Raising Children

Hack Education

Perhaps we might recognize, as we wait to see if Mattel’s or Clayton Christensen’s predictions about the future come true, that this fantasy of the robot companion or caretaker has its own, long history – stories that elicit fear as often as comfort. Maybe they’ll change how we think about robots.