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What Investors See in a ‘Highly Fragmented and Under-Teched’ Early Childhood Education Market

Edsurge

“The pandemic has highlighted how important the early years are, and interest in this market is growing as families, communities and governments are paying more attention,” says Matt Glickman, CEO of Promise Venture Studio, a nonprofit that supports startups and other organizations building child care and early education services.

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Biden’s infrastructure plan would create plenty of jobs, but who will do them?

The Hechinger Report

It’s an example of the huge demand for talent in industries that include wind power and other alternative energies — and the potential labor shortage facing President Joe Biden’s ambitious plan to upgrade the country’s infrastructure , after a years-long failure to train the kinds of workers needed to do it.

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Campus vs. Online: Where is the future of education located?

Neo LMS

They are being forced to consider the costs of constructing and maintaining the buildings and facilities of physical campuses when contrasted with the changing needs and demographics of their student body. what many consider to be the prohibitively high cost of the traditional college degree. In other words, to get a better job.

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How higher education’s own choices left it vulnerable to the pandemic crisis

The Hechinger Report

They added employees and facilities, even as enrollment fell. But if it’s judged as a whole in the way that other industries are, its collective decisions can be seen as having left it singularly susceptible to sudden downturns like the health emergency that’s thrown it into chaos now. Yet higher education has also kept building.

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How Should We Address the Cybersecurity Threats Facing K-12 Schools?

Doug Levin

In so doing, I will endeavor to distinguish information technology security concerns from privacy issues, as well as from the broader security threats that may exist to students, school staff, and facilities. disable, compromise, and/or re-direct school technology assets. ” Education is not one of them, but maybe it should be.

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Computer Science Educators Wanted: How This New Program Is Addressing the Shortage

Edsurge

For teachers looking to burnish their qualifications, Colorado-based STEMpath offers a 12- to 15-month program of coursework and work-based learning through in-industry externships. Organizers selected Colorado due to its high number of unfilled tech jobs across multiple advanced industries in the state.

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As Factories Fade, Rural District Builds Makerspace to Fill Talent Gaps

Edsurge

Economically disadvantaged students tend to lack exposure to experiences that nudge them toward building future stories as say, a software engineer or an inventor of the next biomedical innovation. In 2015, as the program was launching, I began to have in-depth conversations with emerging industry leaders in our community.

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