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The culture wars are driving teachers from the classroom. Two campaigns are trying to help 

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Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Future of Learning newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes every other Wednesday with trends and top stories about education innovation. Subscribe today! When Willie Carver Jr.

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Discovery Education and Leading Corporate and Nonprofit Partners Launch First-of-Its-Kind Initiative Supporting Sustainability

eSchool News

This first-of-its-kind initiative is focused on empowering over 10 million students by 2030 to serve as ambassadors for sustainability by providing the digital resources K-12 students need to make informed decisions and take responsible actions supporting sustainability.

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To Improve Education, We Need to Look at the Last 50 Years, Not Just the Last 18 Months

Edsurge

The lunches are packed, the supplies have been purchased, the classrooms are decorated, and we’re off and running on our third school year in the shadow of COVID-19. The pandemic has accelerated existing trends in remote work, e-commerce and automation. Students entering kindergarten today will graduate high school in 2034.

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‘Digital skills gap’ threatens innovation

eSchool News

This trend exists in other parts of the world as well; for instance, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics says the demand for software developers will grow 22 percent through 2030. In European countries, the report noted, 57 percent of organizations find it hard to fill ICT specialist roles.

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Discovery Education’s EdTech News Roundup – May 15

Discovery Education

Check out what’s trending in EdTech news! from 2023 to 2030. Minneapolis Public Schools were recently the victim of a troubling cybersecurity attack trend happening right now, costing the district lots of money and concerns around confidential information. The industry is set to grow by an impressive 13.6%

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Look Here: Predicting 2020 Requires 20/20 Vision

EdNews Daily

Families are just saying “No” to the public classroom experience and instead are opting for homeschooling, charter and magnet schools, virtual schools or a blending of multiple options. It’s the 800-pound gorilla in the classroom. This is a cultural trend and it’s increasingly being talked about.

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Pearson’s Former Product Chief Reflects on the 4 Megatrends Shaping Global Education

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I started working with classroom technology in 1989 at The Dalton School in New York City. This trend is likely to continue; experts at IBM have hypothesized that knowledge could double every 12 hours as the internet of things grows. We explored new planetary nebulas by scanning digital images from the Hubble telescope.

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