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Government Funds Shielded Colleges From Extinction. In 2022, the Stakes Will Change.

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Using an array of digital communication technologies, messaging platforms and learning management systems, institutions were able to continue operations and maintain their student market share. The CARES Act that Congress signed into law in March 2020 earmarked $2.2 In total, since March 2020, higher education has received $74.8

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Federal Government Launches First-of-Its-Kind Center for Early Childhood Workforce

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Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has been following the situation — with eyes, especially, on the early care and education workforce, says Katie Hamm, deputy assistant secretary for early childhood development at the department’s Administration for Children and Families (ACF). government.

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What Federal Data Tells Us About Challenges Finding Teachers

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Teacher shortages didn’t start with the pandemic, Boren explains, as her organization tracked a teacher turnover rate that hovered between 7 percent and 9 percent prior to 2020. But she says the pandemic did accelerate turnover, with some regions of the South now experiencing 18 percent turnover among teachers.

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Why the Dire State of the Early Learning Workforce Is ‘Alarming and Not Surprising’

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Burton has the unique advantage of operating her program inside a building owned by the university, which does not charge her rent, but everything else from utilities to cleaning supplies to food has continued to rise since 2020, she says.

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PROOF POINTS: Free, no frills programs lead the class in new federal study of remote learning

The Hechinger Report

When the coronavirus pandemic first hit in March 2020, the research unit inside the U.S. Department of Education, called the Institute for Education Sciences, commissioned a report to wade through all the studies on education technology that can be used at home in order to find which ones were proven to work.

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PROOF POINTS: What happens when private student information leaks

The Hechinger Report

In a report publicly released in October 2020 , the Government Accountability Office (GAO) counted 99 school data breaches over the past four years, from July 2016 to May 2020, that compromised the personal information of thousands of students in kindergarten through high school.

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PROOF POINTS: New wave of research shows nudging students by text is not as promising as hoped

The Hechinger Report

Based on these early successes, education leaders in government and nonprofit organizations sought to bring the power of text messages to hundreds of thousands of students. In a November 2020 study, he argued that they’re ultimately more cost effective. Even still, educators are continuing to find productive ways to use nudges.

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