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How Augmented Reality Fosters Student Curiosity and Collaboration

ED Surge

Recently, EdSurge spoke to Brantley about her experiences using McGraw Hill AR , a free app created by McGraw Hill in partnership with Verizon for Verizon Innovative Learning , an educational initiative that seeks to help bridge the digital divide with a goal of providing digital skills training to 10 million students by 2030.

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How Augmented Reality Helps Teachers Reach More Students

ED Surge

This is easy for educators using McGraw Hill AR , a free app created by McGraw Hill in partnership with Verizon for Verizon Innovative Learning , an educational initiative that seeks to help bridge the digital divide with a goal of providing digital skills training to 10 million students by 2030. What does AR look like in the humanities?

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COLUMN: The world is waking up to education’s essential role in climate solutions

The Hechinger Report

It aims for net-zero buildings and electric buses; it also includes a high school elective course in “climate justice,” which combines climate science with what you might call “climate social studies” — understanding the disproportionate impact on frontline communities around the world, often those that are marginalized by race and/or class.

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Home visiting in high school: Trying an intervention for toddlers on teenagers

The Hechinger Report

West Virginia unveiled a campaign this year for 60 percent of adults ages 25 to 64 to have earned a degree or certificate by 2030. The home visits are set up in advance, in contrast to unannounced visits by social workers or school attendance officers.

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California finally ended a ban on bilingual education. Now it can’t find enough teachers for these classes

The Hechinger Report

By 2030, it wants half of California students on a path to becoming bilingual. They can learn social studies in Spanish; its still history and geography. Related: Trumps deportation plan could separate millions of families, leaving schools to pick up the pieces Yet all of this largely amounts to cheerleading.