Education Secretary Betsy DeVos resigned last week in the wake of the rampage on the Capitol, becoming one of the highest profile Cabinet members to do so. Her departure on Friday, after criticizing President Donald Trump’s rhetoric, was a dramatic finale for one of the longest-serving, and most controversial, members of the president’s senior administrative team. It closes out one of the most highly charged tenures in the history of the Education Department.
This notoriety could now have implications for the American school system – and for the person who soon steps into the role she has vacated. Pundits were already comparing President-elect Joe Biden’s nominee for the role, Connecticut Education Commissioner Miguel Cardona, to Ms. DeVos, whose central message during her time in office was that “public education” did not need to mean “public schools.” She championed educational innovation and giving families the ability to decide where and how to educate thei
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Despite all the frustrations and struggles to make remote and hybrid learning work during COVID-19, many teachers have evolved their practices to an approach more tailored to individual students’ needs, and the vast majority say they’ve gained skills that they’ll continue to use after the pandemic ends, concludes a new report. from the Clayton Christensen Institute, a nonprofit research organization that promotes innovation in education and other fields.
Kick-starting FDI in Africa
By Carl Manlan and Efosa Ojomo
LOMÉ/BOSTON In the United Nations’ 2020 World Investment Report, Secretary General António Guterres noted that global foreign direct investment (FDI) this year is “expected to fall sharply from 2019 levels of $1.5 trillion” to below the trough it hit during the global financial crisis. This decline will have a devastating effect on emerging economies, many of which are already in crisis as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Few regions will struggle more than Africa. Not only does the continent account for just 3 epr cent of global GDP, but it currently attracts less than 3 per cent of global FDI, which has been a critical factor in propelling other regions to prosperity.
A look back at the most-read stories of the year in higher education IT.
12/15/20
It s been an unusual year, to put things mildly. COVID-19 and remote learning have dominated the discourse in higher education technology circles and that s certainly reflected in the reading habits of Campus Technology s audience of IT decision-makers. Below, in ranked order, are the stories that generated the most interest in 2020.
In the early days of the pandemic, the Center for Systems Science and Engineering at Johns Hopkins University developed an interactive, web-based dashboard that tracks the status of COVID-19 around the world. That tool quickly became the go-to resource for COVID data.