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It’s Time to Reboot Our Thinking About Adult Learners in a Digitally Transformed World

Edsurge

During the pandemic, though, 37 percent of adults pursuing education abandoned their educational goals due to financial hardships, changes at work, or lack of access to programs, based on public opinion polling from Strada Education Network—a situation characterized as a “national crisis.”

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NAEP Scores Show a Long Road to Academic Recovery. Edtech Can Help Shorten It.

Edsurge

Recent headlines suggest it will take until 2028 for students to recover from these pandemic-related achievement declines. We should equip teachers with tools like DreamBox Math and DreamBox Reading (which my company created) to assess how a student is thinking. Others say it will take decades. We must invest in our teachers.

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Ten jobs that are safe from robots

The Hechinger Report

Over the next decade, at least one-third of the tasks in about 60 percent of jobs could be automated, according to research by consulting firm McKinsey & Company. The notion that we can train someone in 2018 for job requirements in 2028 isn’t realistic.”. If you’re a doctor, you should aim to be an even smarter doctor.

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Will the Rodriguez family’s college dreams survive the end of affirmative action?

The Hechinger Report

Some have cited advice from legal counsel in declining to release the racial and ethnic composition for the class of 2028. He now owns a trucking company. Several said that they would not have such data available even internally until after the admissions cycle wraps up next year.

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The Business Benefits of Video Conferencing

ViewSonic Education

Online meetings have become critical to many companies’ collaboration strategies. Move a company more effectively towards its goals . billion in 2028. . Below are some of the main reasons companies are using video conferencing more than ever before: . Leveraging VC allows companies to be more efficient.?Better

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One State Rolled Out a Promising Child Care Model. Now Others Are Replicating It.

Edsurge

Nearly three years into its pilot, which currently reaches 59 of 83 counties, Michigan is preparing to take the program statewide later this year, scaling it to an estimated 5,000 families by 2028. Meanwhile, Kentucky’s pilot launched in July 2023, while North Carolina’s is in the design phase and on track to start this summer.

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Cybrary Lands $15 Million Series B Round to Train Cybersecurity Workforce

Edsurge

Now, his company, Cybrary (that’s cyber library) has grown to more than 2.6 The company claims to offer thousands of hours of courses and hundreds of hands-on learning exercises in its catalog. As part of the deal, Gray Hall of BuildGroup and Ron Gula of Gula Tech join the company’s board of directors. companies $8.19