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Are Schools and Edtech Companies Ready for the Digital Accessibility Deadline?

ED Surge

JULY 19, 2024

It updated Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act, the law that requires state and local governments to supply equal opportunity — including in services like public schools, community colleges and public universities — for people with disabilities. While not new, the obligations in the rule have become pressing.

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Many Lack Access to Quality Early Education. Home Visiting Programs Are Bringing it to More Families.

ED Surge

MAY 29, 2024

The federal investment in the MIECHV program is set to double from $400 million to $800 million annually, by 2027. Beginning this year , the federal government will match $3 for every $1 in non-federal funds spent on home visiting programs, up to a certain amount. Fortunately, he says, reinforcements are on the way.

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Evidence Shows That Home Visits Support Children and Families. Here’s What to Know.

ED Surge

JUNE 25, 2024

government invests in home visiting programs, and funding is set to expand. Then, in 2010, the federal government invested in home visiting programs for the first time with the creation of the Maternal, Infant and Early Childhood Home Visiting ( MIECHV ) program. “It Many home visiting programs have been around for decades.

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OPINION: Let’s use the pandemic as a dress-rehearsal for much-needed digital transformation

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Investment in AI in education greatly increased from 2019 to 202 0, and I expect most education technology products will incorporate some form of artificial intelligence by 2027; ideally this will lead to better user-centered products. Tools powered by artificial intelligence will also help.

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Canceled classes, sweltering classrooms: How extreme heat impairs learning

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

While there’s no comprehensive data on how many schools lack air conditioning, some 41 percent of school districts responding to a 2020 Government Accountability Office survey reported that the majority of their school buildings needed heating and cooling upgrades. Many school systems are gravely unprepared for a warming world.

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World’s largest solar project will send Australian energy to Singapore

Strange Maps

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

For one, SunCable — the company backed by the charismatic tech billionaire Mike Cannon-Brookes that is developing AAPowerLink — is still waiting on a Final Investment Decision, slated for 2027, before breaking ground. The farm will be in the Barkly Region, one of the Territory’s 17 local government areas.

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Colleges and states turn their attention to slow-moving part-time students

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

Kennedy School of Government, Victoria Dzindzichashvili pauses in the Harvard Square subway station and reflects on the decade it took her to get here. Kennedy School of Government, where she’s just begun a master’s program after taking 10 years to get her undergraduate degree, mostly part time. CAMBRIDGE, Mass. —

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Don’t say there’s a lack of STEM talent in the South

The Hechinger Report

JULY 16, 2019

STEM jobs will grow 13 percent from 2017 to 2027 , as opposed to 9 percent for non-STEM work. HBCU talent can meet workforce demands if government and the private sector invest in programs that develop start-up businesses on campus. million to 17.3 million from 1990 to 2018 (a 79 percent increase).

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The new labor market: No bachelor’s required?

The Hechinger Report

JULY 8, 2022

Larry Hogan announced in March that the state government would strip bachelor’s degree requirements from thousands of job listings. Jared Polis directed government agencies in his state to embrace hiring workers for skills , not degrees. between now and 2027. This story also appeared in The Washington Post. requirements too.

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Universities increasingly turn to graduate programs to balance their books

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 23, 2019

The federal government even charges higher interest rates for graduate than for undergraduate loans : 6.6 The federal government projects that graduate enrollment will rise by about another 3 percent through 2027 — a much more sluggish pace than in the last 10 years. Tuition and fees at the law school at St. Applications to U.S.

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Trust issues

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

said Miriam Jorgensen, research director for the Harvard Project on Indigenous Governance and Development. Tribal nations and states have struggled with state and federal governments over jurisdiction and land since the inception of the United States, says Alex Pearl, who is Chickasaw and a professor of law at the University of Oklahoma.

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‘August surprise’: That college scholarship you earned might not count

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 2, 2023

Michael Wiafe, former president, California State Student Association No one tracks how many universities use scholarship displacement or how many students it affects, and institutions aren’t required to disclose this; among other provisions, the congressional proposal calls for an investigation of the issue by the Government Accountability Office.

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Like it or not, Trump is the next president — Now, here’s how he can improve higher ed

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

Right now, the federal government is the primary funding source for public colleges and universities through federal grants, loans and tax credits. Students and parents are given these funds to take to whichever university they choose, regardless of whether it is public, private or for-profit.

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Former Trump commissioner blasts DOGE education data cuts

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 3, 2025

Now, this work is under threat because of cuts by the Department of Government Efficiency or DOGE. There are things that the Department of Education does that probably should be better left to the states, or, quite frankly, the federal government shouldn’t be involved in, he said. He called her departure a disturbing development.

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Chaos and confusion as the statistics arm of the Education Department is reduced to a skeletal staff of 3

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 14, 2025

24 without explanation before her congressionally designated six-year term was to end in 2027. 10 onslaught, when Elon Musks Department of Government Efficiency terminated much of the work that is overseen by these education research and statistics units. Chapman did not respond to an email for comment.)

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Are Schools and Edtech Companies Ready for the Digital Accessibility Deadline?

Many Lack Access to Quality Early Education. Home Visiting Programs Are Bringing it to More Families.

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Evidence Shows That Home Visits Support Children and Families. Here’s What to Know.

OPINION: Let’s use the pandemic as a dress-rehearsal for much-needed digital transformation

Canceled classes, sweltering classrooms: How extreme heat impairs learning

World’s largest solar project will send Australian energy to Singapore

Colleges and states turn their attention to slow-moving part-time students

Don’t say there’s a lack of STEM talent in the South

The new labor market: No bachelor’s required?

Universities increasingly turn to graduate programs to balance their books

Trust issues

‘August surprise’: That college scholarship you earned might not count

Like it or not, Trump is the next president — Now, here’s how he can improve higher ed

Former Trump commissioner blasts DOGE education data cuts

Chaos and confusion as the statistics arm of the Education Department is reduced to a skeletal staff of 3

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