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Miguel Cardona confirmed as Biden’s education secretary
“At this moment of crisis, Dr. Cardona is exactly the leader we need at the Department of Education,” said Sen. Patty Murray (D.-Wash.), chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee. “He has the experience, principles and perspective that we need in this critical role.” Cardona, 45, was born into poverty to Puerto …
ByteDance to hire 13k new employees, explore China’s education technology
ByteDance, the owner of the short video app TikTok, said that it will hire 10,000 educational professionals, including tutors and course designers, in China over the next four months, Bloomberg PUBLISHED ON FEB 27, 2021 04:40 PM IST Chinese social media titan ByteDance Ltd. plans to hire an additional 13,000 employees this year for its …
17 Education & Technology Group Inc. to Report Fourth Quarter and Fiscal Year 2020 Unaudited Financial Results on March 8, 2021 Nasdaq:YQ
BEIJING, Feb. 26, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — 17 Education & Technology Group Inc. (NASDAQ: YQ) (“17EdTech” or the “Company”), a leading education technology company in China with an “in-school + after-school” integrated model, today announced that it will report its unaudited financial results for the fourth quarter and fiscal year ended December 31, 2020, on …
Innovations in Augmented Reality (AR) and Virtual Reality (VR) to Transform the Realm of Surgery, Medical Education, and Therapy
DUBLIN, Feb. 25, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — The “Revolutionizing Future of Care Through Immersive Technologies” report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com’s offering. The scope of this GO-TE is global. This GO-TE provides an overview of AR and VR, and the drivers and challenges impacting their adoption. The current practice of medical education and methods of performing …
LPS will end high school staggered schedules after spring break | Education
Fewer students than anticipated sign up for LPS dedicated remote learning program next year Support Local Journalism Your membership makes our reporting possible. {{featured_button_text}} Districtwide, 7,046 students are learning remotely exclusively, the lowest number since July. And since the end of first semester, 2,400 have returned to school, Larson said. The highest percentage of remote …
Enhancing school safety with smart technology
Further Education News The FE News Channel gives you the latest education news and updates on emerging education strategies and the #FutureofEducation and the #FutureofWork. Providing trustworthy and positive Further Education news and views since 2003, we are a digital news channel with a mixture of written word articles, podcasts and videos. Our specialisation is providing …
Technology Alliance hosting Saturday program for middle schoolers | Education
SYRACUSE — The Technology Alliance of Central New York at 9:30 a.m. today will present the online program, “A Funny Fable About Bugs and Mud” as part of its Junior Cafe Scientifique series. The program is designed for middle school students. Preregistration is free but required at tinyurl.com/arctictech The featured speaker is Melissa Chipman, professor …
Children’s access to technology for online learning varies greatly by race/ethnicity and parental education during the COVID-19 pandemic
SEATTLE, Feb. 17, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — A new paper published in Socius by researchers at the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington School of Medicine finds large disparities in children’s access to technology for online schooling in the United States. COVID-19 is the largest school disruption event in history, with …
A Wrestling Coach Pins Down the Education Technology of the Future
Some three decades ago, Doug Vander Linden, who had always planned on a career in education, was working a corporate gig, when a one-paragraph job posting caught his eye: The Burlington, Kan., school district wanted a “technology facilitator” to help develop a plan for using new tools at a time when computers in classrooms were …
BREAKING: GISD to make Tuesday, Wednesday snow days | Local News
Gainesville Independent School District will declare Tuesday and Wednesday snow days, according to the district spokeswoman. The school district had previously announced it would treat Feb. 16-17 as virtual learning days. “Due to the unforeseen extended power outages throughout our community, GISD will transition from virtual learning on Tuesday and Wednesday to traditional ‘snow days,’” …
