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Why experts say now is the time to assess your district’s edtech use

eSchool News

Key points: Very soon, districts must closely examine the edtech they use and compare it with budget realities How to ensure edtech ROI? If funds are allotted, however, districts can request an extension to use them through March of 2026 in some cases). For many districts, the relief funding was significant.

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Higher Ed Is Investing in Student Success Tech. Is It a ‘New Golden Age’ or Just Vague Talk?

Edsurge

“I don’t know if I’m necessarily seeing lots and lots of real investments flowing through,” Nicole Engelbert, vice president of higher ed development at Oracle, one of the largest software companies in the world, says. Tambellini predicts that the solutions for large institutions will mostly be ready by 2026.

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TRANSFR Raises $12M to Deliver Hands-on Workforce Training Through VR

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In an economy under the grip of the first global pandemic in a century, money is flowing to companies offering innovative responses to age-old problems. The New York-based company has raised $12 million in a Series A funding round to support its efforts to bring virtual solutions to very real challenges. Among them is TRANSFR Inc.,

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How to help struggling young readers

The Hechinger Report

Teacher-prep programs, she added, bear a large part of the responsibility here: Many teachers-in-training receive just one course in how to teach reading — a teaching task which experts agree is extremely complex — before heading into the classroom. Children do not come wired to learn how to read: It is an acquired skill.

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After the Pandemic, Higher Education Can’t Afford to Go Back to ‘Normal’

Edsurge

To further complicate matters, statisticians have long warned of the pending “ 2025 cliff ,” which represents the abrupt reduction of potential first-time, full-time freshmen projected to arrive in 2025 to 2026 due to the drop in birth rates between the years 2008 and 2011. The stakes are high and so are the needs of our students.

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How to Prepare Students in the Early Years to Read at Grade Level

MindShift

Teacher-prep programs, she added, bear a large part of the responsibility here: Many teachers-in-training receive just one course in how to teach reading — a teaching task which experts agree is extremely complex — before heading into the classroom. Children do not come wired to learn how to read: It is an acquired skill.

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Jobs in cybersecurity are exploding: Why are women locked out?

The Hechinger Report

To detect and ultimately thwart the cyber criminals, who are masquerading as legitimate business owners, the Throckmortons must solve a series of increasingly difficult challenges beginning with figuring out how to log into one of the gang member’s social media accounts by cracking a password reset form. will grow 28 percent by 2026.

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