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Virginia’s Portsmouth Public Schools Expands Partnership with Discovery Education to Bring Students in Grades 7-12 State-of-the-Art Digital Resources 

eSchool News

  CHARLOTTE, NC — Portsmouth Public Schools (PPS) today announced it has expanded its partnership with Discovery Education supporting the district’s five-year strategic plan, Expedition to 2025: Purpose. The district’s strategic plan— Expedition to 2025: Purpose. Inspired by the global media company Warner Bros. Discovery, Inc.

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HE Challenges: Fast changing digital teaching methods

Neo LMS

According to UNESCO, global demand for higher education is expected to grow from 100 million students currently to 250+ million by 2025. In the last on our series about the challenges in higher education, we will examine how universities and colleges are managing the fast pace of change in teaching methods and curricula.

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With new “talent visas,” other countries lure workers trained at U.S. universities

The Hechinger Report

This story also appeared in The Washington Post Only in her 20s, she had already co-created an e-commerce website that rose to the top of its category in her home country, gotten snatched up by a tech company, then been poached by another tech firm. The number of international graduates of U.S. Nearly 40,000 foreign-born graduates of U.S.

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When a Pandemic Upends Labor Markets, Will a New Workforce ISA Fund Work?

Edsurge

He was working for a tech company, but this was no tech job. In July, Cachu started taking online classes during the day, learning skills and programming languages like R, which is often used in data analysis. The same thing happened shortly after with a television marketing firm—and then again with a retail company.

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Beer making for credit: Liberal arts colleges add career tech

The Hechinger Report

In a survey conducted by Quest Research and the Kaplan test-prep company, they were four times more likely to say they’d hire an English major with a credential in cybersecurity than an English major without one. “We Americans appear to like the idea of embedding career and technical education into academic degree programs.

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Another million adults ‘have stepped off the path to the middle class’

The Hechinger Report

in science, engineering, technology and math, an analysis by the Georgetown University Center for Security and Emerging Technology found; by 2025, it says, China will be turning out nearly twice as many graduates with doctorates in those fields than American universities will. Chinese universities produce more Ph.D.s

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Deal with online giant threatens Pennsylvania colleges, Moody’s warns

The Hechinger Report

Although Moody’s negative analysis doesn’t affect any college’s current ability to borrow, Fitzgerald explained, it’s a warning that colleges are going to be facing additional market pressures. “It’s a dynamic, challenging environment.”