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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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Education technology and the future of Higher Ed leadership

Neo LMS

Technology like this has allowed non-traditional students to gain access to better education, allowing students from remote places to plug into a class hosted around the world, and even made it easier for differently-abled students to learn mainstream curricula and more. Read more: How to create accessible e-learning design.

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Writing a College Essay That Stands Out

Edsurge

Class of 2028 supplemental essay prompt. With a foundation of personal narrative writing in place, increasing access to counselors or advisers who can provide students with individualized guidance on the college essay writing process is key. The prompt asks applicants to, “Tell us about an aspect of your identity (e.g.

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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. Just as tutoring has always been a part of education support systems, these online options can provide more opportunities for students to learn outside the classroom. Others say it will take decades.

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OPINION: Harvard President Claudine Gay’s resignation and the end of affirmative action signal to Black people that they will never belong

The Hechinger Report

Less than a month before Gay’s resignation, these politics were on display as Ivy League early admissions decisions sparked the annual accusations of reverse racism, with non-Black students and parents blaming Black students for stealing their spots in the class of 2028.

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OPINION: Why school shutdowns are a disaster for science classes

The Hechinger Report

Despite mounting evidence that schools are not turning out to be major incubators or vectors of Covid-19 transmission, New York City shut down its public school system in November. Many other major school systems remain closed as well. jobs in the STEM sector are forecast to grow by 8 percent by 2028. In the U.S.,

STEM 135
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Ten jobs that are safe from robots

The Hechinger Report

Meanwhile, the education system will have to adapt by focusing on giving people the high-level problem-solving and interpersonal skills that robots may never be able to master. The notion that we can train someone in 2018 for job requirements in 2028 isn’t realistic.”. Line installers and workers.

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