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Number crunch: Edtech data you can use right now

eSchool News

The 2023 Global Education Monitoring Report launched last week at an event in Montevideo, Uruguay, hosted by UNESCO, the Ministry of Education and Culture of Uruguay and Ceibal Foundation with 18 ministers of education from around the world. Using technology can improve some types of learning in some contexts.

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School support staffers stuck earning poverty level wages

The Hechinger Report

This story also appeared in Fast Company Now, facing staffing shortages, the district of more than 16,000 students dumped extra work on those who remained. At the beginning of the 2022-23 school year, 53 percent of public schools reported being understaffed, according to the Institute of Educational Sciences.

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He Paid Off Morehouse Grads’ Debt. Now Robert Smith Is Trying Income-Based Financing at HBCUs.

Edsurge

A report from the College Board found that the average Parent PLUS loan was $17,220 for the 2018-19 school year, or 2.6 A report from the United Negro College Fund found that nearly twice as many HBCU undergraduates rely on Parent PLUS than their non-HBCU peers. times the average undergraduate student loan.

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With $14M Fundraise, Noodle Wants Colleges to ‘Pick and Choose’ How They Build Online Programs

Edsurge

As more nonprofit colleges and universities bet their futures on online offerings, many are turning to for-profit companies to help create and advertise their new digital degree programs. There, he helped 2U raise nearly $100 million, and left shortly before the company went public.

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6 Super Science Edtech Ideas: Using Technology to Level Up Science Classrooms

The CoolCatTeacher

Leah: Another way that I try to give students technology to showcase their science understanding is through like tools that help them to maybe build electronic books. So by having them use that camera and use slow-motion and use annotation, you’re just focusing them back on the fact that science is visual and I need to report what I see.

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Managing and Sharing Your Education Data Effectively

edWeb.net

All educators have now become managers and reporters of data, whether they are classroom teachers compiling information on individual students and sharing it with parents, or top district administrators evaluating teachers, principals, and all their students. Optimizing Data Reports. By Robert Low. WATCH THE EDLEADER PANEL RECORDING.

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Cengage sees digital outpace textbook sales for first time

eSchool News

For its fiscal year 2016, Cengage Learning reported that digital unit sales outpaced print textbook sales for the first time. For example: The Company is experimenting with new business models and strategies to offer more affordable options for students, while lowering the cost to deliver these products.