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More high school grads are rejecting 4-year pathways

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Key points: More than half of surveyed students say they will opt out of the traditional four-year undergraduate path This decision to pursue alternative post-secondary options hints at an evolving postsecondary landscape. Thirty-four percent of those who graduated from 2020-22 expressed similar uncertainty.

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How to Navigate the Nuances of Anonymous and De-Identified Data in AI-Driven Classrooms

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The Department of Education defines de-identified data as information from which personally identifiable details have been sufficiently removed or obscured, making it impossible to re-identify a person. However, it may still contain a unique identifier that could potentially re-identify the data. I offer three overly simplified strategies.

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4 Ways Edtech Entrepreneurs Can Earn Trust and Unlock New Opportunities With Education Customers

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The broader post-secondary landscape, including higher education and workforce development, has also quickly embraced online learning and up-skilling opportunities to better engage students and employees remotely. Then, in March 2020, schools across the globe closed their doors, quickly pivoting to online instruction.

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Most high school grads feel their skills aren’t up to par

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Most high school graduates (75 percent) do not feel prepared to make college or career decisions after graduation, according to a survey from YouScience , a college and career readiness company. are unemployed , the survey highlights the opportunity to better inform and engage our future talent pool.

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The Past Decade Forecasts a New Wave of Economic Opportunity in Education

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To date, our education systems sit atop a cultural assumption—that information is scarce. Our primary and secondary education systems formed around teachers imparting knowledge. Education-focused technology that helps make use of all this information and advances learning and equality is still in its infancy.

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4 Essential Steps to Secure Funding for Hybrid Classroom Technologies

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Some relief came in 2020 through the CARES Act with an initial $13 billion allotment to K-12 schools. A new funding package from the federal government in December 2020 dedicated an additional $54.3 Creating an itemized budget may require some research and preliminary conversations with edtech and software companies.

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‘Dear Mr. Zuckerberg’: Students Take Summit Learning Protests Directly to Facebook Chief

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Students at the Secondary School for Journalism in Brooklyn had become increasingly frustrated with Summit Learning. The Secondary School for Journalism is one of about 380 schools nationwide using Summit Learning, a personalized learning program that involves the use of an online instructional software, called the Summit Platform.

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