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Why Building a Diverse Workforce Requires Computer Science Mandates in Schools

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The two million new jobs will grow in specialized “job families,” including computer science, mathematics, engineering, and design. recipients in computer science fields, only four percent were African-American and five percent were Latino. Knowledge is the new currency, and it’s out of reach for many. In 2013, among B.A.

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IGNITE! READING ANNOUNCES $10M SERIES A FINANCING TO MEET ACCELERATING SCHOOL DEMAND FOR ITS VIRTUAL 1:1 LITERACY TUTORING PROGRAM

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Ignite is helping K-12 schools reverse pandemic-related learning losses by providing struggling readers with 15 minutes a day of one-on-one virtual instruction by tutors trained in the Science of Reading. Ignite’s easy-to-implement program teaches foundational reading skills, and students recorded an average of 2.4

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What Schools Miss When They’re Missing Relationship Data

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Making the Invisible Visible Some tools have emerged from researchers focused on the power of network science to improve outcomes. We have this enormous database on the backend of the program and use data science tools to really look at how mentees engage in the program.

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This Administrator Helped Shape Tech at Colleges For More Than 40 Years. Here’s His Outlook on What’s Next.

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When I graduated, I taught philosophy for three years, and then Vassar College called and said they really needed somebody with a PhD who could do computer science, and they were kind of desperate. People weren't conceiving of what something like bioinformatics could be, and what data science applied to urban planning could be.

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Smart Sparrow Raises $4 Million to Help Teachers—Not Tools—Drive Adaptive Learning

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For every university, change management is just as critical a factor as financial investment. The offering, which uses the theme of space exploration to teach biology and earth-science concepts, is by far the most complex course built on the platform, says Dror-Naim. Often we hear, ‘Dror, come back in six months.

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When Is It Okay for Public School Officials to Attend Tech-Funded Events?

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He knows more about district-level change management than just about anyone in the country, and he has the charisma and panache to explain it in a way that is engrossing for an audience,” Rubin explained. Such activities point out Rubin, could negatively affect their ability to do their job. “We

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3 LMS adoptions that go way beyond the basics

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The fact that Edsby could wrap around our existing SIS was a big draw; it allowed us to implement change management without any risk to our funding,” said Howitt, who also liked the fact that the platform’s developers previously worked for FirstClass, an email client. “We