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States bet big on career education, but struggle to show it works

The Hechinger Report

And in 2022, 36 states enacted policies promoting career training for high schoolers, college students, and adults, according to Advance CTE , a professional organization for state CTE leaders. Their inability to answer stems from disconnected data. In effect, students fall off the states’ radar when they start working.

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Year in Review: Our Top Edtech Business Stories of 2018

Edsurge

But too often, he says, kids today “spend almost all their time in education learning how to do computation, and not leaving that to the computers” so they can focus instead on solving real-world, higher-level problems. The conventional answer is STEM and computer science education.

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How Education is Becoming the Front Lines for Debating the Role of Algorithms

Edsurge

add caption here This week’s podcast is brought to you by “The State of Online STEM Education'' an upcoming national survey of the online STEM landscape created by Every Learner Everywhere and Online Learning Consortium. Students were concerned, and they were aware, and they [adopted] certain kinds of privacy practices.

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Executive Briefs

techlearning

No matter how skilled, knowledgeable, passionate, or persistent school district employees are in building and attending to a student data privacy compliance program, the work simply cannot succeed without a leadership champion.

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Hero Awards finalists: 18 schools and educators dedicated to learning

eSchool News

The school recently built a new center for science and arts outfitted with new, cutting-edge Samsung solutions that provide an ideal space for students to foster STEM skills, such as critical thinking, communication, and creativity. When the pandemic started, Upchurch knew this would permanently change how students learn.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

It works well, that is, if you disregard student data privacy and security. After all, Amazon knows how to run online marketplaces; Amazon knows how to sell texts. Indeed, almost as soon as the first iPads reached students’ hands, there were reports that students had “ hacked ” their devices.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

WeWork , which recently acquired the coding bootcamp Flatiron School and has plans to launch a private K–12 school to teach kids how to be entrepreneurs, is buying the meet-up company Meetup. ” Privacy, Surveillance, and Information Security. “Name+DOB+SSN= FAFSA Data Gold Mine ,” says Krebs on Security.

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