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Momentum builds behind a way to lower the cost of college: A degree in three years

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Wentworth, for example, will add combined four-year bachelor’s and master’s degrees in data science and cybersecurity analytics starting in the fall of 2023, the university says. Related: Colleges’ new solution to enrollment declines: Reducing the number of dropouts. It’s not a law or a commandment on the tablets.

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How one city closed the digital divide for nearly all its students

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The district lacked a system for tracking how many students weren’t logging on to classes for lack of a working computer, tablet or internet connection at home. “We The ECF funding, which was originally set to expire this June, has recently been extended until June 30, 2023. The federal funding itself isn’t permanent.

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The newest form of school discipline: Kicking kids out of class and into virtual learning

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In the meantime, the middle schooler would be left to keep up with her schoolwork on her own, on a district-issued tablet that Curry says would often lock her granddaughter out. Louis area home on June 10, 2023. Her sixth grader soon was at risk of being unable to move up to seventh grade in fall 2023. “I I feel like a failure.