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Will Virtual Reality Lead More Families to Opt Out of Traditional Public Schools?

ED Surge

Emma Green, a staff writer for the New Yorker, has been spending time visiting these VR classrooms and researching the company for the magazine. EdSurge: So you saw some demos of this VR school with their sixth graders and eighth graders. He's done some research on VR and education as well. What did the VR classroom look like?

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Geographical Association Conference 2024 – Some Reflections

Dr. Preece

It felt like there were some emerging themes across a number of sessions: the concepts of power, representation and ‘whose Geography’ have now firmly established themselves at the heart of the conference conversation. Clearly, there’s elements of both – a dialogue between Conference and the rest of the community and wider school geography.

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Out of poverty, into the middle class

The Hechinger Report

And yet, according to the Pew Research Center , only 27 percent of young college graduates with student loans say they live comfortably and about half say the lifetime financial benefit of a college degree outweighs the cost. Moureen’s economic ascent, however, may also depend on geography. By the end of 2017, Americans owed $1.38