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E–Rate Updates Free Up Resources for New Classroom Technology Projects

EdTech Magazine

ERate Updates Free Up Resources for New Classroom Technology Projects. Tue, 07/16/2019 - 15:04. Recent updates to E-rate, which put more focus on funding high-speed internet and network protection tools , have helped K–12 schools reallocate resources to improve other focus areas. . When E-rate 2.0

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

Edsurge

Compare that to companies today, like the e-commerce giant Amazon, which in 2019 reportedly employed 798,000 persons and is currently projected to employ more than 1 million by the end of 2020. To put things into context, at one point the country’s steel industry employed roughly 650,000 persons.

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Transforming Compton’s Schools into a STEAM Pipeline for Students

edWeb.net

99% of the students qualify for free or reduced-price lunches, but the district’s graduation rate is now over 90%, exceeding the state and national averages. Elementary students participate in groups such as Girls Who Code and a Lego League, while middle school students can join e-sport leagues or do work as “medical detectives.”

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A Thinking Person’s Guide to EdTech News (2017 Week 28 & 29 Editions)

Doug Levin

” that by 2019 half of all high school classes will be taught over the internet ; Raised questions about a new study on personalized learning ; Added four new incidents to the K-12 cyber incident map ; and. graduation rates — up to a record 83 percent — and whether it is real or an elaborate scam. I think the latter."

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How ‘Learning Engineering’ Hopes to Speed Up Education

Edsurge

If both happen together, that’s a 9x improvement in the rate of learning.” That kind of feedback would be perfect if you had a robot learner on the other end,” he says. The system sends students a text or e-mail 24 to 48 hours after a class, with one multiple-choice question about the material.

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Is the hardest job in education convincing parents to send their kids to a San Francisco public school?

The Hechinger Report

Before the Covid-19 pandemic, public school enrollment in the United States had been trending downward , thanks to birth-rate declines and more restrictive immigration policies, but the decreases rarely exceeded half a percentage point. But Dee said, between fall 2019 and fall 2021, enrollment declined by 2.5

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3 ways to make social-emotional learning REAL for students

The Cornerstone for Teachers

As a result of this work, led by Byron, his school recently won the 2019-2020 Whole Child Award. And if we approach it from, W e know what’s best and our rule is the rule of law, we’re going to fail every single time. They are not machines, they are not robots, we cannot push them 24/7.