The Polk County School District hopes to reduce COVID learning gaps through a $4.75 million contract with Varsity Tutors for online tutoring and lessons, which will have the potential to reach nearly 40,000 students districtwide. Superintendent Frederick Heid told the School Board at its regularly scheduled meeting on Dec. 13 […]
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Mandy Liu, a 21-year-old university student in Beijing, believes that anyone who has lived in China during the pandemic can see that the country’s future is looking increasingly uncertain. Covid restrictions were stifling, and employment opportunities were grim. She is set to graduate next year with a degree in tourism […]
Text size Estimates reveal that the achievement crisis could affect lifetime earnings per student by $43,800 per pupil. Across 50 million U.S. students that could yield a loss of $2 trillion. Dreamstime About the author: Stanley Litow is Accenture professor of the practice at Duke University and a trustee at the State University of […]
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To most people, the world of scientific literature is a vast black box, an impenetrable mess of millions upon millions of jargon-filled studies. The idea of asking a scientific question of that black box — and getting a straight answer — is obviously appealing. A new AI-powered search engine called […]
