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Universal prekindergarten is coming to California — bumpy rollout and all

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billion program will be fully implemented by the 2025-26 school year across the nearly 900 districts in the state that include elementary grades. Related: Alabama aims for huge pre-K enrollment boost by 2025, despite pandemic setbacks Some, but not all, of these kinks might be worked out by the time the program is fully implemented in 2025.

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CSU and California Community Colleges Partner on a Tool To Find Transferable Online Courses

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Two of the largest higher-education systems in the country are partnering to pilot an online course finder tool to increase students’ access to 10,000 online and transferable courses. According to a press announcement, more than 118,000 of the CSU system’s 484,000 students took an online course in the fall of 2017. million learners.

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OPINION: The pandemic wiped out decades of progress for preschoolers. It’s time to get them back on track

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For the roughly 25 percent of American children who live in California, Colorado, Hawaii, Illinois, Michigan, New Jersey and New Mexico, the inability to access pre-K could become a thing of the past. The first state to enact “universal” pre-K was Georgia, where enrollment peaked in 2017-18 at 61 percent and has since declined.

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Community colleges tackle another challenge: Students recovering from past substance use

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But it’s only in the last dozen or so years that programs began popping up at community colleges; Minneapolis College’s program, opened in 2017, was the first in Minnesota and the fifth in the nation. She’s thriving in her classes and expects to graduate in 2025. Today, more than 170 programs exist across the U.S. and Canada.

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Education Is the New Healthcare, and Other Trends Shaping Edtech Investing

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Since 2017, investment has accelerated with $14 billion allocated, according to research firm HolonIQ. Despite the influx of capital, employers, schools and policymakers are only just beginning to harness the sector’s advancements in the delivery, accessibility and effectiveness of education technology. hours on social media.

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OPINION: Banning legacy admissions will deliver another blow to the children of Black alumni

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Credit: Image provided by Nick Chiles Vivid memories of that day came flooding back to me in the fall of 2017, when we dropped Mari off for her freshman year at Yale — 11 years after her first encounter. Eleven percent of the class of 2027 are legacies; the numbers were 12 percent for the class of 2026 and 14 percent for the class of 2025.

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Can You Say Unicorn? Duolingo Raises $30 Million at $1.5 Billion Valuation

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billion by 2025. Today Duolingo numbers 200 employees, up from 95 in July 2017, when the company last raised funding. Coursera, which also offers access to online higher-ed courses, secured $103 million in April. Market estimates for the global online language market range from $3.8 billion in 2020 to $10.5