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Mastercard and Discovery Education Partner to Empower Girls with STEM Learning Through the Signature Girls4Tech™ Program

eSchool News

Thursday, April 22, 2021) — With the goal of providing five million girls with an engaging STEM education by 2025, Mastercard has partnered with Discovery Education to launch the latest phase of the award-winning Girls4Tech initiative. The study showed that women are less confident, receive less encouragement, and need more mentors in STEM.

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Education Is the New Healthcare, and Other Trends Shaping Edtech Investing

Edsurge

hours on social media. In a Harvard Medical School study of 67,000 college students across more than 100 institutions, 1 out of 5 students surveyed said that they had thought about suicide. Teachers and administrators are hungry for effective ways to teach social and emotional learning,” says former U.S.

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AI and Libraries Mini-Conference in Just One Week: Schedule Now Posted | 23 Sessions!

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Participants are encouraged to use #library2024 and #aiandlibraries on their social media posts about the event. In addition, Pun is an ALA Presidential candidate for 2025-2026. Each three-hour event consists of a keynote panel, 10-15 crowd-sourced thirty-minute presentations, and a closing keynote.

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Is the hardest job in education convincing parents to send their kids to a San Francisco public school?

The Hechinger Report

Related: A school created a homeless shelter in the gym and it paid off in the classroom “My husband and I are both a product of a public school education, and it’s something we really wanted for our children,” said Rodriguez, the first caller. The district’s pandemic-era enrollment decline was three times larger than the national one.

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Survey: Education Among Top Industries for AR/VR Investments

EdTech Magazine

The vast majority — 86 percent — of respondents to the 2019 Augmented and Virtual Reality Survey Report agreed that by 2025, XR technologies will be as ubiquitous as mobile devices. Survey participants also predicted big investments in XR classroom technology in 2020. That prediction is already beginning to bear fruit.

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With an Unusual Model and ‘Forbidden Courses,’ a New University Is Taking Shape in Texas

Edsurge

The news went viral—it was all over social media, and even cable news. And early in his career, he was a classroom teacher in a school as well, as part of one of the first cohorts of teachers in Teach for America. Everybody knows there's a demographic cliff coming in 2025. And that applies on the right as well.

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A year in the life of a small-town superintendent shows the federal bailout won’t be enough

The Hechinger Report

A 2019 study from the nonpartisan Albert Shanker Institute found only five states spend enough money to help students in high-poverty school districts achieve test scores that meet the national average; Washington ranked among the lowest spenders on that list. Mike Griffith, senior researcher and policy analyst, Learning Policy Institute.