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Girls Who Code Goes to Capitol Hill: Can Congress Help Solve the Gender Gap in Tech?

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It’s a trend the nonprofit examines in a new report , “The State of Girls in K-12 Computer Science Classrooms,” that was released in conjunction with Wednesday’s gathering. You can’t just put a computer lab or have a computer science class in a middle or elementary school and think everything is going to change.

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Canceled classes, sweltering classrooms: How extreme heat impairs learning

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Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Future of Learning newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes every other Wednesday with trends and top stories about education innovation. Given the extent of the work, though, it will take until 2027 before all schools are air conditioned, she wrote.

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The number of public school students could fall by more than 8% in a decade

The Hechinger Report

What does the declining birthrate mean for elementary, middle and high schools across the country? percent enrollment drop cascades through the whole elementary-to-high-school system as these first graders age and progress into higher grades. Department of Education, shows an opposite trend. “Nobody is talking about this.”

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Shop class is grounded, high school aviation classes are taking flight

The Hechinger Report

Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Future of Learning newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes every other Wednesday with trends and top stories about education innovation. The market for drone pilots is expected to grow by 51.1 percent over the next four years.

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Remote learning hurt high school grad rates–ditching exit exams helped

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The report also cautions that the pandemic’s full effects on high school graduation likely haven’t been felt yet, as the children who struggled in middle and elementary school are still working their way toward a diploma. More time in remote learning lowered grad rates Graduation rate trends varied a lot across the U.S.

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'Robots Are Coming For Your Children'

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“In my book,” she told Bloomberg, “there’s no reason why children in elementary schools can’t be launching their own businesses.” Are monetization strategies what we want elementary school students to be concerned with? “ Robots will replace teachers by 2027.”

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Former Trump commissioner blasts DOGE education data cuts

The Hechinger Report

Removal of commissioner disturbing Woodworth also decried the unexplained and sudden removal last week of his successor, Peggy Carr, a Biden appointee whose congressionally determined six-year term was supposed to extend through 2027. He called her departure a disturbing development.

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