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Empowering girls with STEM education to build tomorrow’s tech industry

eSchool News

Consequently, students who face difficulties in meeting academic standards might find themselves lacking the requisite skills and knowledge to effectively pursue careers in IT. These educational setbacks could further perpetuate the gender gap in an industry where women accounted for just 28 percent of the STEM workforce in 2023.

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‘Back to School’ Hijinks and Lessons for the Education Industry

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But to the BMO’s annual education industry conference, where company executives, investors, bankers and financiers of all stripes descended in their suits and slacks (but very few ties). EdReports has become a real big deal in K-12 publishing,” he said, referring to the nonprofit that reviews textbooks for alignment to academic standards.

Industry 146
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Building Lifelong Learning Success Through Esports – By Lori Bajorek

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The National Esports Association (NEA) is leading the charge in integrating esports into classrooms and beyond, championing initiatives that merge academic rigor with industry relevance. Such achievements require not just talent but also access to reliable, high-quality tools.

Learning 195
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Turning ‘Google Maps for Education’ From Metaphor to Reality

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But in the field of education, we don’t even have a complete set of static competency frameworks for digital data that are openly accessible and interoperable—to say nothing of dynamic data that support real-time pathway optimization. To bridge the gulf, it will take a similar open-data ecosystem to support learner navigation. K-12 learners.

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Why Efforts to Improve Teacher Productivity and Efficiency May Not Pay Off

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In today’s workforce, one employee backed up by teams of experts providing training, tools, just-in-time access to materials and data can perform work that once required dozens of line workers. In contrast, the American education system, despite efforts to centralize elements like academic standards, remains enormously fragmented.

Policies 142
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Take Two: Clever’s Newest Effort to Help Teachers Try Before They Buy Edtech

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So far, the library has since been accessed by around 250,000 teachers, who have made more than 9 million student accounts for the apps, according to the company. Inside the Library The Library is not yet open to everyone; only teachers in districts that have integrated with Clever can access it. Success has proven elusive.

EdTech 143
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Making the case for common K-12 standards

eSchool News

In order to innovate in ways that anticipate and serve the needs of teachers and students, standards are applied to how OER is tagged, how tags support one another, and the editorial style that is imposed upon all metadata. One of the most common sets of structures are academic standards. The Value of Common Standards in OER.

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