Education technology companies promise results without evidence
THE HECHINGER REPORT – School closures in all 50 states have sent educators and parents alike scrambling to find online learning resources to keep kids busy and productive at home. Website traffic to the homepage for IXL, a popular tool that lets students practice skills across five subjects through online quizzes, spiked in March. Same…
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THE ASSOCIATION OF AMERICAN LAW SCHOOLS – An updated list of articles and memorandum regarding remote instruction during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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THE ASSOCIATION OF AMERICAN LAW SCHOOLS – AALS has organized documents, resources, and information related to legal education and the legal profession to help law faculty, students, and staff plan for classes and operations during the coronavirus pandemic.
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THE JOHN MARSHALL LAW SCHOOL – When law firms and other legal organizations started shortening, canceling and moving their summer programs online, Darby Dickerson, Dean and Professor of Law at UIC John Marshall Law School, and the current president of the Association of American Law Schools, zoomed into action to help students by designing a 10-week…
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THE NATIONAL JURIST – Law schools’ move to online learning is continuing into summer. For instance, the Graduate Tax Program at LMU Loyola Law School is launching an online version of its Summer Tax Intensive In response to the COVID-19 outbreak. The program offer classes custom-designed for online instruction. Classes start on May 26. More information is available at www.lls.edu/summertax.
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ABOVE THE LAW — On this special report, we explore COVID’s impact on legal education, how law schools are adapting, and what students must do to prepare in the months ahead.
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WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM — The pandemic that has shuttered economies around the world has also battered education systems in developing and developed countries. Some 1.5 billion students — close to 90% of all primary, secondary and tertiary learners in the world — are no longer able to physically go to school.
Read More about Future of higher education transformed by the pandemicCalifornia State University system plans for most classes to be online this fall
INSIDE HIGHER ED — The California State University system is planning for the worst. The system’s chancellor announced Tuesday in a virtual meeting with trustees that the university is moving ahead with a “virtual planning framework.” Effectively, that means most courses in the fall are likely to be online.
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THE CHRONICLE OF HIGHER EDUCATION — The Chronicle is tracking colleges’ reopening plans, and about 73 percent of institutions in our sample say they plan a face-to-face fall semester. Several leaders have made rather confident statements. Their employees and students seem less sure about a homecoming anytime soon.
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INSIDE HIGHER ED — Vice President Mike Pence held a call Wednesday with leaders of 14 colleges and universities. They were joined by Betsy DeVos, the U.S. secretary of education, and Deborah Birx, the White House coronavirus response coordinator, in a discussion about “best practices to get students back to school in the fall,” according to…
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