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College Enrollment is Dropping: Here Are a Few Observations I’ve Made Talking to Recent High School Graduates

The CoolCatTeacher

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. For higher education , these sober statistics are acute signals of a decade-long enrollment decline of 13 percent. And with the number of high school graduates projected to decrease from 2027 through 2037, college enrollment challenges have just begun.

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K–12 Teachers Use Virtual and Augmented Reality Platforms to Teach Coding

EdTech Magazine

Since 1990, jobs in science, technology, engineering and math have grown by 79 percent , and are expected to grow an additional 13 percent by 2027 , according to a 2018 Pew Research Center survey. . Technology Companies Invest in AR and VR Education Apps. Technology leaders are noticing this window of opportunity too.

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Girls Who Code Founder Awarded McGraw Education Prize

Edsurge

Prize in Education has been one of the most prestigious awards in the field, honoring outstanding individuals who have dedicated themselves to improving education through innovative and successful approaches. Family Foundation, McGraw-Hill Education and Arizona State University. McGraw, Jr. McGraw, Jr. And they’re 11 years old!

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PBS to Present “Spotlight Education,” A Special Week of Programming Featuring Reports About America’s Students and New Models of Learning, September 12-17

EdNews Daily

As a leader in educational media for children and students and a key partner with parents and educators across America, PBS today announced SPOTLIGHT EDUCATION, a special week of primetime programming examining the challenges facing today’s students and America’s education system. 10:00 p.m.

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Carnegie Learning Awarded LEVI Grant to Double the Rate of Middle School Math Progress by 2027

eSchool News

The seven teams – Carnegie Learning, Carnegie Mellon University, Eedi, Rising Academies, the University of Colorado Boulder, Khan Academy, and the University of Florida – are committed to harnessing the potential of AI and machine learning to develop innovative, affordable interventions to enhance middle school math education.

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‘August surprise’: That college scholarship you earned might not count

The Hechinger Report

And in 2021 a bipartisan bill was introduced in Congress to require institutions to disclose whether or not they use scholarship displacement, though it stalled in the House Committee on Education and the Workforce. Sign up for our higher education newsletter. Additional reporting by Noble Ingram.

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Education Technology and the 'New Economy'

Hack Education

One of education technologies’s greatest luminaries passed away this year. Seymour, as my friend Gary Stager has described him , was the “inventor of everything (good) in education.” This is part six of my annual review of the year in ed-tech. I do so in Seymour’s memory.