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

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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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How to help struggling young readers

The Hechinger Report

Photo: Sarah Gonser for 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. BRONX, N.Y. —

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How to program greater diversity among Mississippi’s computer science grads

The Hechinger Report

Makenzie believes that since the world is constantly changing, she needs to know how to fix things, like cars with advanced electronic technology. The field of computer and information technology is expected to grow by 13 percent from 2016 to 2026, among the fastest of any occupation, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

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What America can learn from Canada’s new ‘$10 a Day’ child care system

The Hechinger Report

Credit: Jackie Mader/The Hechinger Report The “$10 a Day” child care initiative, as it’s known in British Columbia, has been life-changing for parents. Credit: Jackie Mader/The Hechinger Report Children play in their classroom at the Huckleberry Coast Child Care Society in British Columbia.

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

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It isn’t the only report that’s predicted a stream of expensive updates to higher ed systems. A lot of the explosive growth occurred in relatively small, private, nonprofit colleges for whom existing solutions are ready to be deployed, Tambellini reports. And there’s also the question of size and complexity.

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Without changes in education, the future of work will leave more people behind

The Hechinger Report

The health care industry is expected to add the most jobs by 2026, and, together with the social assistance sector, will account for 4 million new jobs — one-third of all new positions, according to the BLS estimates. Related: In one state, students are ditching classrooms for jobs. Sign up for our newsletter.

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Is college enrollment among older adults increasing? Depends who you ask

The Hechinger Report

More than 19 million undergraduate students are enrolled in colleges and universities for fall 2018, according to a report this week from the National Center for Education Statistics , and many of them are adults aged 25 and older. I liken it to the unemployment report,” said Viar. million and has declined since then.

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