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How AR and VR Prepare Students for Jobs of the Future (and Save Districts Money)

Edsurge

Whether you’re post-secondary or secondary, you have access to that money. And every state has a Carl Perkins grant , which is our federal money towards Career and Technical Education. Tapping into that is a great way to fund your programs. That’s hundreds of millions of dollars that our federal government is pouring into CTE.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

That being said, if you’re using a piece of technology that’s free, it’s likely that your personal data is being sold to advertisers or at the very least hoarded as a potential asset (and used, for example, to develop some sort of feature or algorithm). It works well, that is, if you disregard student data privacy and security.

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Will “school choice on steroids” get a boost under a Trump administration?

The Hechinger Report

For example, in Minnesota, which began allowing part-time online enrollment in 2006, roughly 1 percent (5,520) of the state’s secondary school students enrolled during the 2013-14 school year, according to the Minnesota Department of Education. Data on the Florida Virtual School show a similar trend; in Utah, a stunningly low 6.15