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Canceled classes, sweltering classrooms: How extreme heat impairs learning

The Hechinger Report

Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Future of Learning newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes every other Wednesday with trends and top stories about education innovation. Excessive heat impairs the brain’s functioning and makes it harder for students to learn. Subscribe today!

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

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With experts predicting more extreme weather in 2023, that undoubtedly means schools will suffer more disruptions in a K-12 education era already defined by pandemic-related learning setbacks. It can also disrupt their learning progress — and affect their well-being. They include hurricanes, wildfires and winter storms.

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

The Hechinger Report

What should come next is an examination of how schools can more deeply and deliberately harness technology to make high-quality learning accessible to every learner, even in the wake of a crisis. We know that each student learns differently. Related: Bringing ‘inclusive innovation’ to school districts.

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Shop class is grounded, high school aviation classes are taking flight

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Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Future of Learning newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes every other Wednesday with trends and top stories about education innovation. The class is being launched with the help of education nonprofit Remake Learning. percent over the next four years.

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Girls Who Code Goes to Capitol Hill: Can Congress Help Solve the Gender Gap in Tech?

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So that’s what she learned to do. You can’t just put a computer lab or have a computer science class in a middle or elementary school and think everything is going to change. “I wanted to make these reports,” she told a room full of girls and women in tech on Wednesday at an event in Washington, D.C. “I I wanted to do these things.”

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'Robots Are Coming For Your Children'

Hack Education

” And it sure isn’t “everyone should learn nursing.” ” Everyone Should Learn to Code. “In my book,” she told Bloomberg, “there’s no reason why children in elementary schools can’t be launching their own businesses.” Learning how to “work.”

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Jeb Bush’s lieutenant governor, as assistant secretary of elementary and secondary education, the top post at the Education Department overseeing K–12 policy.” Via The Times Higher Education : “For-profit claims ‘learning gain’ victory over universities.” ” Because “open.”

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