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

Edsurge

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. One of those researchers is Cassandra R.

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

The Hechinger Report

Investment in AI in education greatly increased from 2019 to 202 0, and I expect most education technology products will incorporate some form of artificial intelligence by 2027; ideally this will lead to better user-centered products. 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.