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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. Robust, accurate measurements cannot be done in the silo of summative assessments that capture only one moment in time based on whether a student gets the answers to multiple choice questions right or wrong.

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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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Ten Jobs That Should Be Safe From Automation

MindShift

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,” Fuller said. If you’re a doctor, you should aim to be an even smarter doctor.

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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

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

Without revenue the company will go away. Or the company will have to start charging for the software. Or it will raise a bunch of venture capital to support its “free” offering for a while, and then the company will get acquired and the product will go away. And “free” doesn’t last. Wedge Tailed Green Pigeon.

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