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What Is the True Cost of a 1:1 Device Program? One State’s Careful Rollout Offers a Look

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A pre-pandemic meta-analysis found that 1:1 laptop programs positively impacted student performance in English, writing, mathematics and science, with some mixed results about whether these findings were equally true for students of lower socioeconomic backgrounds and whether 1:1 initiatives could help bridge the achievement gap.

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Let’s Change Financial Aid to Help Students Who Pay Their Own Way Through College

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I took 14 AP classes, had significant achievements and leadership roles in seven clubs, scored a 35 on the ACT, and took college courses during the summer so that I could graduate with my associate degree. I frantically taught myself the basics of data analysis and started preparing to apply for jobs. So work I did.

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Should universities use differential treatment to admit students?

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Economics is the study of how people make decisions, how we choose where to study and work, how we promote fairness in society and how our lives are shaped by market institutions and government policies,” says Dr Emil Temnyalov, an economist at the University of Technology Sydney.

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Fire trackers: how can we use modelling techniques to predict where wildfires will occur?

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This type of fire is deliberately applied to a pre-determined area at the time, intensity and rate of spread required to achieve the desired management objectives, and occurs under a strict set of environmental conditions Fire suppression techniques — the various strategies for stopping a fire once it has started.

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Here Comes Another Trend in K-12 Science Education: Data Science

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And yet, they keep being pushed by large publishing companies, government agencies, schools, and even academic professors. Instead of following a predetermined curriculum, inquiry-based learning encourages students to develop their own questions, hypothesis, experiments, and conclusions based on their observations and data analysis.

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Social solutions for socio-economic issues

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The next step involves implementing schemes and programmes that can support people living in poverty and help them to achieve financial security. What are your proudest career achievements so far? Data analysis skills are often in high demand, so working on these is a good idea. Do you have a question for Nathan?

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Analysing the impacts of Brexit

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THINK TANK – a group outside the government which makes policy proposals. There’s no exact science for evaluating the impacts of Brexit,” says Sarah, “but we commonly use methods of data analysis.” THINK TANK – a group outside the government which makes policy proposals. But this has practical and political consequences.