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Universal prekindergarten is coming to California — bumpy rollout and all

The Hechinger Report

billion program will be fully implemented by the 2025-26 school year across the nearly 900 districts in the state that include elementary grades. Related: Alabama aims for huge pre-K enrollment boost by 2025, despite pandemic setbacks Some, but not all, of these kinks might be worked out by the time the program is fully implemented in 2025.

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College Board Pauses Plan to Let Students Take SAT Test at Home This Fall

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One of the biggest systems in the country backed out last week when the University of California voted to eliminate those testing requirements for California students by 2025. And given the barriers to taking these exams under current social distancing guidelines and the COVID-19 pandemic, others may follow suit.

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

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HolonIQ estimates that global spending on digital education tools surpassed $150 billion last year, and will double by 2025. Recently updated federal guidelines have also raised the bar for efficacy evidence that educational services should demonstrate before public funds can be used to purchase them.

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Community colleges tackle another challenge: Students recovering from past substance use

The Hechinger Report

In November, the Association of Recovery in Higher Education, which serves as a hub for the programs, launched a working group tasked in part with editing the guidelines for starting recovery programs to make them more applicable to community colleges. She’s thriving in her classes and expects to graduate in 2025.

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Funding School Services in the Midst of Multiple Crises

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She also recommends working with county and state officials to track what’s working in other districts, and she suggested keeping the district’s “external auditor on speed dial” to make sure that any new steps being taken are within the appropriate guidelines and deadlines, which also remain subject to change.

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Why Teach Digital Citizenship in 2022

Fractus Learning

Projection expects that by the end of 2025, 291.2 Parents and teachers protect children with guidelines and boundaries at school and home. Globally 2.14 billion people shopped online in 2021. is one of the leading online retail markets worldwide. million U.S. internet users will purchase at least one item online.

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Stanford Experiments with Virtual Reality, Social-Emotional Learning and Oculus Rift

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In April 2016, the Collaborative for Academic, Social and Emotional Learning (CASEL) announced it will work with eight states to develop policies, guidelines and benchmarks for integrating SEL into their curricula. Whole states are even banding together to create standard curricula for the subject. Forty states expressed interest.