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Discovery Education’s EdTech News Roundup – May 15

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The industry is set to grow by an impressive 13.6% from 2023 to 2030. The Simplest Elementary School Science EdTech Every day, educators are using digital resources to meaningfully support science teaching and learning—and the best EdTech tools are the ones that are easy to use. Here’s some recent news on the Tech in EdTech!

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Uncertified teachers filling holes in schools across the South

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By 2030, as many as 16 million K-12 students in the region may be taught by an unprepared or inexperienced teacher, the Southern Regional Education Board projects. But Texas’ second-largest district had to fill elementary classrooms and core subjects in middle and high schools. 11, 2022, in Athens, Ala.

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OPINION: Americans need help paying for new, nondegree programs and college alternatives

The Hechinger Report

The bill would also create standards for these programs, to ensure that they provide the training necessary for today’s most in-demand industries and meet employer hiring requirements. million manufacturing jobs could go unfilled by 2030. The National Association of Manufacturers recently projected that roughly 2.1

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Why it matters that Americans are comparatively bad at math

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production of semiconductors, Deloitte reports a projected shortage in that industry, too, of from 70,000 to 90,000 workers over the next few years. In Massachusetts, which is particularly dependent on technology industries, employers are anticipating a shortage over the next five years of 11,000 workers in the life sciences alone.

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Where education systems stumble, grassroots groups step in to raise success rates

The Hechinger Report

We didn’t look at college graduation rates until business and industry started saying, ‘This isn’t working for us.’ ” Photo: Fred Salinas for The Hechinger Report. We didn’t look at azo until business and industry started saying, ‘This isn’t working for us.’ ”. Their goal: for 75,000 Mobile residents to earn new degrees by 2030.

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Out of poverty, into the middle class

The Hechinger Report

Elementary school: hated it,” Amber says. As emerging technologies rapidly and thoroughly transform the workplace, some experts predict that by 2030 400 million to 800 million people worldwide could be displaced and need to find new jobs. These are the skills we’re hearing from industry are essential.”. I hate homework.”.

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America’s schools are crumbling. Fixing them could save lives (and the planet)

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Rehabbing schools creates jobs, reduces long-term costs and moves the United States toward meeting its climate commitments without reining in industry, she said. The firm currently constructing an elementary school in Washington, D.C. The exterior of Alice West Fleet Elementary School in Arlington, Va. They also look expensive.

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