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

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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

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Many school systems are gravely unprepared for a warming world. 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.

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The new labor market: No bachelor’s required?

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

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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.

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Universities increasingly turn to graduate programs to balance their books

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Tuition and fees at the law school at St. The federal government even charges higher interest rates for graduate than for undergraduate loans : 6.6 In this day and age the bachelor’s degree is what the high school diploma used to be and the master’s degree is what the bachelor’s degree once was,” said Armstrong.

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Trust issues

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said Miriam Jorgensen, research director for the Harvard Project on Indigenous Governance and Development. by funding schools and hospitals for them. Arlee High School is a public school on the Flathead Reservation. public schools, and some don’t attend state-run schools at all. Yes,” said Stainbrook.

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

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Yvette Hernandez started applying for college scholarships when she was still a junior in high school — 50 in all, by the time she was done — because she knew her family could not afford to pay for her tuition, room, board and other expenses without them.

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