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OPINION: How schools can find common ground in an era of education wars

The Hechinger Report

The toxic and ominous polarization of our politics has arrived in our school board meetings, and educators are getting pummeled by accusations that they are brainwashing children into believing “woke” ideologies. Public education in America is under attack on multiple fronts. School budgets are getting squeezed as Covid stimulus winds down.

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Celebrating Earth Day with Resources from Discovery Education 

eSchool News

Created in partnership between Discovery Education and the LEGO Group’s sustainability team, the Play to Learn Virtual Field Trip takes students to Billund, Denmark to meet real-life LEGO® play experts as they introduce us to some big challenges facing our planet. Inspired by the global media company Warner Bros. Discovery, Inc.

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Riverside Insights Acquires Aperture Education

eSchool News

Riverside is a portfolio company of Alpine Investors , a people-driven private equity firm. The Aperture team has developed the DESSA suite of assessments to meet the needs of students and educators. Riverside and Aperture have very similar company cultures. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. About Alpine Investors.

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Why I’m Optimistic About the Next Wave of Education Technology

Edsurge

My bet is that by 2040, our children will look back on this period between 2015 and 2030 in education technology much the same way internet historians look to the period 1995 to 2010 as the birth of the commercial web. Working closely with partners, I spent the years from 1993 to 2004 starting and leading a handful of technology startups.

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Impatient for workers, businesses help students take college shortcuts

The Hechinger Report

Many of his friends took the same shortcut to good jobs at companies including Sony and Lockheed Martin. The skills academy at which Seck teaches is run by Synchrony, a national financial services company headquartered in Stamford. Now, at 27, he’s making more than $90,000 a year. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research.

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As enrollment falls and colleges close, a surprising number of new ones are opening

The Hechinger Report

The institute, which opened last year in borrowed space with sweeping views of Casco Bay in Portland’s fast-developing East End, is offering master’s degrees , certificates and professional training in computer science, data analytics, artificial intelligence, biotechnology, cybersecurity and other subjects.

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Progress in getting underrepresented people into college and skilled jobs may be stalling because of the pandemic

The Hechinger Report

Absenteeism in the spring and fall has been similarly high in Baltimore, Boston, Chicago, Dayton, Hartford, Los Angeles and other cities, according to data compiled by the Brookings Institution. Her coalition of advocates in Nashville now meets remotely, every Friday morning. Seventy percent said they were falling behind.

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