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EDUCATION TECHNOLOGY

AMLE | July 13, 2021

The American Student Assistance (ASA) and the Association for Middle-Level Education (AMLE) have announced the release of Career Exploration in the Middle Grades: A Playbook for Educators. The digital playbook and its associated online resource center, the first of its type for middle schools, offer evidence-based best practices for effectively conducting career exploration with students aged 10-15. In addition, the playbook provides a beginning point for various career exploration programs, com...

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PowerSchool | February 02, 2022

PowerSchool, the leading provider of cloud-based software for K-12 education in North America, announced it has made enhanced updates to Naviance by PowerSchool, its leading college, career, and life readiness (CCLR) platform serving more than 10 million student users, a thriving community of more than 500,000 educators and the submission of more than 6.2 million college applications in 2021. Key findings from the 2021 Naviance Student Survey supported the need for these solution ...

educationdive | March 11, 2020

Over the last two months, the specter of the novel coronavirus loomed for colleges and universities in the U.S., though they were largely unaffected — save for some that had to close international campuses and cancel study abroad trips. In the last week, however, the dynamic has shifted as the virus and the respiratory infection it causes, COVID-19, spreads in the U.S. On Wednesday, officials at the World Health Organization said the situation is now a pandemic. Dozens of colleges in...

Study International | January 31, 2020

More than four in ten trustees are very concerned about the future of the US higher education sector, an increase of 14 percent from 2018, a new poll has found. The Trustee Index, commissioned by the Association of Governing Boards of Universities and College (AGB), also found a majority are worried about the future financial sustainability of their own institutions or systems (38 percent) and the price of higher education for students (25 percent). “It requires a considerable investment o...