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EdSurge’s Year in Review: The Top 10 K-12 Stories of 2021

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Also: Our continued coverage of the collapse of China’s online tutoring market, and its global ramifications, became required reading for anyone interested in education. Some will keep tutoring, even if they are driven underground or are forced to take lower rates. We Need to Make Schools Human Again.

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An After-School Education Program Aims to Diversify the Tech Industry

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Projects include making animations, creating statistical databases of favorite sports teams and designing programs that can identify pneumonia in scans of human lungs. Code Next is a perfect example of how better spaces can create social justice,” Kurani said.

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For adults returning to college, ‘free’ tuition isn’t enough

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Adults with workplace skills such as human resources training or financial management deserve credit for such college-level learning, said Mathew Bergman, an associate professor at the University of Louisville who is a national expert in adult learning and teaches in the program. “If His counselors reached out.

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Universities try to catch up to their growing Latinx populations

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Leave this field empty if you're human: But after years working seasonal jobs sorting equipment at the local Ford plant and dealing blackjack at nearby casinos, Perez wanted to rise to a management position — and she couldn’t without a bachelor’s degree. Sign up for our Higher Education newsletter. Choose as many as you like.

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Should we screen kids’ genes to ‘predict’ how successful they’ll be in school?

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Many factors boost a child’s chance of success in school — like having wealthy parents who can afford tutors. But some researchers fear this gene screening work could be misapplied and used to further racist or eugenic thinking, even though race is a social, not a genetic, classification. This story also appeared in NBC News.

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Facing legal threats, colleges back off race-based programs

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After the the Equal Protection Project in October challenged a BIPOC Alumni-Student Mentoring Program at the University of Virginia School of Education and Human Development, the description was revised to say that while created “with BIPOC students in mind,” it “is open to mentors and mentees of all races, ethnicities, and national origins.”