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‘Digital skills gap’ threatens innovation

eSchool News

The report should serve as a wake-up call for education leaders in the United States and elsewhere to think about how instruction should change to meet employers’ needs more effectively. trillion in potential growth by 2028 if the digital skills gap isn’t addressed. RAND Europe, the European arm of global research firm RAND Corp.,

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Empty Desks: Getting Chronically Absent Students Back to Class Is No Easy Feat

Edsurge

Students performed better in 2019, with 18 percent meeting state standards for ELA and just under 12 percent meeting standards for math. In 2018, scores were higher still, with 24 percent of students meeting ELA standards and 15 percent meeting math standards. Photo by Magali Gauthier for The Almanac. "We

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OPINION: Often overlooked vocational-tech schools provide great solutions to student debt, labor shortages

The Hechinger Report

A startling 3 million skilled trades jobs will sit unfilled by 2028. They can also donate equipment and serve on advisory boards to ensure that schools’ technical education classes meet industry standards. Budget autonomy allows schools to allocate funding as they see fit to meet the needs of their particular students.

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

The Hechinger Report

Affirmative Action ends While affirmative action made strides in increasing diversity on college campuses, it fell far short of meeting its intended goals. Some have cited advice from legal counsel in declining to release the racial and ethnic composition for the class of 2028. Welcome to the Cornell community!”

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The Business Benefits of Video Conferencing

ViewSonic Education

With all the benefits, an increasing number of businesses adopt online meetings as their go-to mode of communication. . However, this is no longer the case as more meetings are taking place virtually rather than in physical locations. Simply put, face-to-face meetings are slowly becoming a thing of the past.? . Demo products.

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What I learned from writing a book: A 3x3x3 reflection

Robert Talbert, Ph.D.

Then, we would meet on Zoom and pull up the document. The same will be true about alternative grading in 2028. We had to invent and refine our process as we went along. What we eventually settled on was this: One person would be in charge of drafting a chapter, using a shared Google Doc.

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

Edsurge

The Zoom meeting was an opportunity to share how their efforts are unfolding. 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.