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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. And with the number of high school graduates projected to decrease from 2027 through 2037, college enrollment challenges have just begun. Yet many students know the truth — online learning was a farce in many cases. percent in fall 2021.

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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. . We ultimately found favorable results in timing tests and user experiences overall when learning code and using AR.” .

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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

The “Teach Boldly” teacher support initiative will include a series of virtual and community training events and the launch of the new PBS Teachers’ Lounge, a creative digital space where teachers can share ideas, learn from peers, find daily inspiration and access the tools and resources they need to enhance their work in the classroom.

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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

When she returned, she made extra cash by, among other things, working in a basic-needs center for other low-income students, who, she learned, are disproportionately subjected to so-called scholarship displacement. “We We all felt the same anger,” said Hernandez, who is now entering her senior year.

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Girls Who Code Founder Awarded McGraw Education Prize

Edsurge

This year, there are three prizes: for work in pre-K-12 education, higher education and a newly created prize, for learning science research. Girls Who Code 's Reshma Saujani Twitter: @reshmasaujani In 1995, women made up about 40 percent of the computing workforce. How much have you learned to code through this process?

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Education Technology and the 'New Economy'

Hack Education

I’d hardly know where to begin in writing one, but I want to open this particular article – one that focuses, in part, on the whole “everyone should learn to code” craze – recognizing his great contribution to educational computing as well as his loss. “Everyone should learn to code.”