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Climate Change Took a Heavy Toll on the U.S. Last Year. What’s the Cost to Education?

Edsurge

This puts physical classrooms in harm’s way, and also threatens students’ academics and mental health, too. They found that standardized test scores dropped across grade levels following the storms, and that elementary students scored progressively worse on tests for each of the three years following Hurricane Matthew.

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OPINION: Let’s use the pandemic as a dress-rehearsal for much-needed digital transformation

The Hechinger Report

As challenging as the last two years have been, academically and on the mental health of teachers and students , some schools have worked collectively, distributing devices, developing new health and safety protocols and shifting to virtual classrooms. Related: How to plan for a future of education where disruption is the norm.

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'Robots Are Coming For Your Children'

Hack Education

One of the notable elements this year of both the “everyone should learn to code” narrative and the “we need to be training students for the jobs of the future” story was how young this is all supposed to start. “How to Prepare Preschoolers for an Automated Economy” read a New York Times headline in July.