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Announcing the 2021-2022 League of Innovative Schools Cohort

Digital Promise

Digital Promise is thrilled to announce 37 districts—including 26 new districts and 11 returning districts—will join the ranks of the League of Innovative Schools for the 2021-2022 school year. Their trainings and materials were used across the country. million students served over time. And the exemplars continue.

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What Gartner’s Top Tech Trends for 2019 Mean for Education

EdTech Magazine

As K–12 schools continue their E-rate processes for 2019, districts should be considering what tools are worth investing in to provide their students with the best outcomes in the coming year. . Digital transformation in schools is already happening at a rapid rate, and there seems to be no sign of slowing down.

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Can A New Online Learning Platform Improve Employment For Those With Visual Impairment?

Edsurge

Despite being capable of working a variety of jobs, people who are blind or visually impaired tend to have low job placement rates, low salaries and an unusually high underemployment rate. However, the accessibility of workplace training can serve as a stumbling block.

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COVID-19 Has Widened the Skills Gap. But It Also Presents an Opportunity to Close It.

Edsurge

When the unemployment rate spiked during the spring of 2020, jobs that required a college degree declined more than those that didn’t, and new college graduates were hit the hardest. Through 2022, half of all planned cloud migrations will be delayed by two years or more due to the lack of trained talent.

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The Power of Microcredentials and America’s Higher Education Dilemma

Edsurge

Chamber of Commerce, in 2022 nearly 3 million fewer Americans were participating in the labor force compared to February of 2020. birth rate has been declining since the 1970s. million jobs in 2022, there simply aren’t enough people in the job market to fill these roles. On the institution side, Jennifer E.

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PROOF POINTS: Third graders struggling the most to recover in reading after the pandemic

The Hechinger Report

Children in kindergarten when the pandemic broke out in the spring of 2020 are now roughly eight years old and in third grade this 2022-23 school year. Third graders in 2022 are the furthest behind in reading, as depicted by the bar on the far left. Grade refers to the grade students are in during the 2022–23 school year.

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Why is SEL important for teachers?

Hapara

Relieves burnout and stress According to a 2022 survey from the National Education Association (NEA), 55 percent of educators said they are thinking about leaving their teaching career earlier than planned. When educators become exhausted, schools may see high rates of absenteeism. There are several benefits of SEL for teachers.

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