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Today's CTE Investments Help Boost Students' Success

EdTech Magazine

There is a renewed focus on CTE amid broader debates about the value of college and the student debt crisis as well as the need for viable post-secondary alternatives. But for cash-strapped schools, it can be a challenge to find funds needed to acquire industry-specific technology and provide the practical work experience students need.

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Hackers don’t take a summer vacation–neither can school cybersecurity

eSchool News

This is what Canada’s Barnaby School District did across its 41 elementary schools and 8 secondary schools, uncovering more than 2,000 additional endpoints than previously thought. Finally, get serious about access. First, begin with a comprehensive inventory of all devices connected to the network.

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HE Challenges: Fast changing digital teaching methods

Neo LMS

The future looks like this: Access to college-level education will be free for everyone; the residential college campus will become largely obsolete; tens of thousands of professors will lose their jobs; the bachelor’s degree will become increasingly irrelevant; and ten years from now Harvard will enroll ten million students.”. Skills gap.

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VHS Learning Continues to Serve Massachusetts Students Underrepresented in Advanced STEM Courses Through Statewide Initiative

eSchool News

To help, the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (MA DESE) partnered with VHS Learning to create the STEM Advanced Placement Access Expansion Opportunity , which enables up to 1,500 students within the state to take free AP® courses during the 2022-2023 academic year.

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OPINION: Artificial intelligence can be game-changing for students with special needs

The Hechinger Report

Meanwhile, digital media, heavily reliant on visuals and text, with audio often secondary, is playing an increasing role in education. But not for blind or deaf students, whose sensory limitations frequently impede their access to quality education. Audio is often a secondary consideration; particularly once users can read.

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Schools Focus on Boosting Students’ Future Career Options

EdTech Magazine

In the 2018-2019 school year alone, Fairfax County students earned 18,000 industry credentials, says Beth Downey, the district’s CTE coordinator. The district enrolls more than 187,000 students in its elementary and secondary schools as well as alternative programs. Building Skill Sets That Help Students.

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Schools Focus on Boosting Students’ Future Career Options

EdTech Magazine

In the 2018-2019 school year alone, Fairfax County students earned 18,000 industry credentials, says Beth Downey, the district’s CTE coordinator. The district enrolls more than 187,000 students in its elementary and secondary schools as well as alternative programs. Building Skill Sets That Help Students.

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