article thumbnail

What to Know About Miguel Cardona, Biden’s Pick for Education Secretary

Edsurge

That would be by April 30, 2021.) That means, among many things, taking stock of the damage caused by long-term school closures, and creating plans for reopening amid steep budget cuts, increased costs for safety measures, and widening achievement gaps and learning loss that have hit low-income students and students of color the hardest.

Education 218
article thumbnail

Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

“Trump Taps Common-Core Foe Mick Zais for No. Via Inside Higher Ed : “ Ohio State University and Apple on Wednesday announced a collaboration that will start a digital learning effort at the university that Apple and university officials said may represent the company’s most ambitious program in higher education.”