Edsurge

JANUARY 11, 2021

A new survey on corporate skills training forecasts that a lot more companies will try doing it using virtual reality environments in the next two years. The company’s data comes from tracking daily product use by 2.5 But in the one-week November 2020 survey of 101 teachers, that figure ticked up to 32 percent.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 5, 2020

In May, as one school year ended and another began to loom large on the horizon, Danks and the leaders of a handful of other outdoor education advocacy groups— Ten Strands , the Lawrence Hall of Science museum in Berkeley, Calif., And she hopes educators and families all across the country will try it and see that for themselves.

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edWeb.net

MAY 7, 2021

At the start of the pandemic in March 2020, schools defaulted to online learning. Over time, the need to quickly adapt led to heightened online student engagement, according to a CatchOn survey of 47 school districts from January 2020 to January 2021. The Role of Technology During COVID. Student engagement suffered.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Meghan Whittaker, director of policy and advocacy at the National Center for Learning Disabilities. I don’t think anyone’s going to say that what we were doing worked or was equitable,” said Meghan Whittaker, the director of policy and advocacy at the National Center for Learning Disabilities. Here’s why they’re not.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

White students could lose four to eight months of learning by June 2021, and students of color could lose six to 12 months, according to a McKinsey & Company report published in December. The first, passed in March of 2020, provided around $13.2 In November 2020, the state passed Proposition 208 to put a 3.5

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MindShift

DECEMBER 7, 2020

“I don’t think anyone’s going to say that what we were doing worked or was equitable,” said Meghan Whittaker, the director of policy and advocacy at the National Center for Learning Disabilities. Vaughn’s advocacy on behalf of her kids came to a temporary standstill this spring, when she was hospitalized with the coronavirus.

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Education Advocacy System Policies 49

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 17, 2020

Capella University, owned by the same company as Strayer, is running ads promoting its flexibility in “uncertain times” and promising would-be transfer students that they can earn a bachelor’s degree in as little as a year. In recent earnings calls, many companies emphasized the quality of the education they provide.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 3, 2019

But California, with a higher education budget for 2019-2020 of $18.5 Data analysis is being used to pinpoint bottlenecks, such as those overcrowded courses. Related: Colleges are using big data to track students in an effort to boost graduation rates, but it comes at a cost. If not, I’ll be taking summer classes to be sure I am.”.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Without revenue the company will go away. Or the company will have to start charging for the software. Or it will raise a bunch of venture capital to support its “free” offering for a while, and then the company will get acquired and the product will go away. And “free” doesn’t last. Sometimes they strike a deal.

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Pearson MOOC Company Software 145

The Hechinger Report

MAY 23, 2020

Such descriptions of climate change are muddled and misleading, according to four climate scientists who reviewed them as part of a Hechinger/HuffPost analysis of 32 middle school and high school textbooks and digital curricula and what they say on the subject. Others said that the passage’s description of greenhouse gases was flawed.

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