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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 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...