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  Summary List Placement Coursera Plus is $100 off now through January 10. It's the deepest discount we've seen. The subscription ($296 now, originally $399) is a year-long access pass to over 90% of the site's online courses.  Below, you'll find a few of the most popular courses included in the Coursera Plus subscription. The membership can be a great deal for students who...

  Summary List Placement The rise of online learning platforms is democratizing education by allowing people to learn pretty much anything from home.  However, there are countless types of online classes and platforms to choose from, which can be overwhelming. To make it easier, we compared and broke down the differences between four of the most popular online learning platforms: Udemy, LinkedIn Learning, Coursera,...

Summary List PlacementThis year, investors poured more than $4 billion into EdTech startups by August, according to Crunchbase, rising to $9.7 billion by November, Wired reports. When the pandemic forced many students into full-time remote learning last spring, people begun reconsidering the value of a traditional college education in its present form. This helped spur the growth of online education options across the educational...

Summary List PlacementTelepresence robots — essentially Zoom on wheels — first emerged about a decade ago. Early users ranged from business executives taking "tours" of factories to doctors making virtual rounds with patients to homebound students with chronic illnesses or disabilities. As a result of COVID-19, however, these robots have seen a flood of new interest from people who need to stay physically distant,...

  Summary List Placement A professional website can make you stand out as a job applicant or be the best way to showcase your small business. If you've never coded or built one before, there are multiple platforms that can help you build a beautiful, comprehensive site, such as Squarespace, WordPress, Adobe Portfolio, and more. Below, you'll read a comparison of five of the...

Summary List PlacementThe global pandemic has moved the classroom to the home for students from kindergarten to graduate school. At the same time, consternation over higher-education costs and access has roiled families and academic institutions alike, putting pressure on colleges and universities to prove their value.  The moment is ripe for disruption in education. Enterprise companies are accelerating new platforms while students and educators...

 Summary List Placement Whether you want to learn the basics of drawing or how to make your character sketches more dynamic, these expert-taught online classes cover everything you need to know. You can buy or gift all of these for either a one-time fee or a monthly subscription, with the most expensive option ($129.99) giving you over 26 hours of in-depth instructional material. Read...

 Summary List Placement With the start of October comes another set of 12 thrilling, poignant, and captivating reads selected by Amazon's book editors.  This month, the list includes a powerful recounting of experiences in group therapy, an enthralling new thriller that will appeal to lovers of "Gone Girl," a poignant fiction read exploring the impact of modern warfare, and more. Each of October's picks...

Summary List Placement   A Louisiana school suspended and nearly expelled a fourth-grader for unintentionally showing a BB gun during his virtual class.  Ka Mauri Harrison, a 9-year-old in Harvey, Louisiana, moved a BB gun that his younger brother tripped on during an English test, Nola.com reported. The teacher attempted to speak to him, but because he muted the computer for the test, he...

Summary List Placement Changing your life through education is no easy feat. It takes grit, commitment, and determination to show up each day ready to put in the hard work. As a non-traditional, adult student myself, it was especially challenging as I also balanced a career, a family, a home, and countless other responsibilities. Despite the additional demands, I firmly believe the advantages of...

Summary List PlacementA new report from the Economic Policy Institute (EPI) found that public school teachers were paid about 20% less in weekly wages than college-educated peers in 2019. The report's authors, Sylvia Allegretto and Lawrence Mishel, call this the "teacher wage penalty" — and it's actually gotten better since 2018. The 19.2% rate in 2019 was down from 22% in 2018. The authors...

Summary List Placement The University of New Hampshire and public health officials have identified a cluster of COVID-19 cases that are believed to be linked to a Theta Chi fraternity party on August 29, the university said in a statement.  More than 100 people attended the party without masks, according to UNH. "The August 29 party is reprehensible and will not be tolerated. As...

Summary List Placement   The average annual salaries of public school teachers differs from state to state, ranging from a little over $45,500 in Mississippi to nearly $86,000 in New York.  After recently ranking the teacher salaries in every state and DC and with the school year beginning around the country, Business Insider decided to look at what are the 10 states where public...

Amazon just announced that it has partnered with K-12 schools in Utah to provide free cloud computing training using Amazon Web Services, the company's cloud business. Amazon previously collaborated with California and Virginia's community and public colleges to offer programs in cloud computing using AWS. Some experts warn that training students or job seekers in skills that corporations say they want might not guarantee a...

A British school student is threatening to sue the UK government over an algorithm that was used to determine final grades after national exams were cancelled due to the pandemic. The algorithm has been widely criticized for hurting bright students at disadvantaged schools, costing them life-changing places at top colleges. Almost 280,000 students saw their A-levels downgraded from what teachers had predicted thanks to...

The second-largest teachers' union in the US said it would support members if they were to strike against returning to unsafe classrooms on Tuesday, according to The New York Times. The union said strikes should be a "last resort" for its 1.7 million members. Many teachers are already protesting school reopening plans. The union is advocating for a delayed start to the school year,...

Jessica Calarco is an associate professor of sociology at Indiana University, Bloomington and the author of Negotiating Opportunities: How the Middle Class Secures Advantages in School and A Field Guide to Grad School: Navigating the Hidden Curriculum.  The idea of pod-style learning for kids has gained more stream recently, with some parents pulling children out of school and hiring tutors or experienced teachers. Many have...

Tutoring companies like eTutorWorld, TutorMe, and Tutor.com have seen increases in purchases for their online tutoring services during the pandemic. Demand is sparked by the need to supplement hastily put together online classes and students fearing they'll get behind in their education as classes remain remote in the fall. Summer is usually a quiet time for tutoring companies, but the number of new customers...