#Charter schools gained over public during pandemic: report

#Charter schools gained over public during pandemic: report

“#Charter schools gained over public during pandemic: report” Charter schools scooped up hundreds of thousands of additional students across the U.S. during the coronavirus outbreak while enrollment plunged at traditional public schools amid building closures and inferior virtual learning, a new report reveals. Charter school enrollment increased by 7.1 percent nationally during 2020-’21 amid the…

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#Cambodian students build manned drone to aid community

#Cambodian students build manned drone to aid community

“#Cambodian students build manned drone to aid community” PHNOM PENH, Sept 21 – Inspired at first by a desire to beat their city’s notorious traffic, a group of Cambodian students have designed a prototype drone that they hope can eventually be used to ferry people around Phnom Penh and even help fight fires. With eight…

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#Letters to the Editor — Sept. 6, 2021

#Letters to the Editor — Sept. 6, 2021

“#Letters to the Editor — Sept. 6, 2021” The Issue: The New York City Department of Education’s push to ban honor rolls and class rankings. Honor rolls and awards should definitely be abolished, but not for the reasons stated by the Department of Education (“DOE’s War on Excellence,” Editorial, Sept. 2). The editorial board is…

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#San Diego students told to mask up outdoors at school, bus stops

#San Diego students told to mask up outdoors at school, bus stops

“#San Diego students told to mask up outdoors at school, bus stops” San Diego’s largest school district, the second-largest in California, is requiring students to wear coronavirus masks outdoors as well as indoors on campus grounds – and at their bus stops as part of its fall reopening guidelines. “Masks are always required indoors,” page 14 of the San Diego…

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#Education Department to cancel .1B of debt for ITT Tech students

#Education Department to cancel $1.1B of debt for ITT Tech students

“#Education Department to cancel $1.1B of debt for ITT Tech students” The US Department of Education is canceling more than $1.1 billion in student debt for 115,000 borrowers who attended the now-defunct ITT Technical Institute, once one of the nation’s largest for-profit college chains by revenue. The Education Department announced Thursday that the move is based…

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#Amid COVID surge, school mask mandates supported by most parents: poll

#Amid COVID surge, school mask mandates supported by most parents: poll

“#Amid COVID surge, school mask mandates supported by most parents: poll” As schools return from summer break amid growing concerns of the highly contagious delta variant, most parents support school mask mandates. The KFF COVID-19 Vaccine Monitor said 63 percent of parents of school-age children polled by the Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF) said schools should mandate masks for unvaccinated…

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#Pandemic prompts changes in how future teachers are trained

#Pandemic prompts changes in how future teachers are trained

“#Pandemic prompts changes in how future teachers are trained” COLUMBUS, Ohio — Before last year, a one-credit technology course for students pursuing master’s degrees in education at the University of Washington wasn’t seen as the program’s most relevant. Then COVID-19 hit, schools plunged into remote learning and suddenly material from that course was being infused…

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