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Boys Think Schools Favor Girls. Schools Are Trying New Tricks to Change That.

All-male middle schools show what boys need to develop skills—and these lessons would work in coed schools, too. All-male middle schools show what boys need to develop skills—and these lessons would work in coed schools, too. FOLLOW US ON GOOGLE NEWS Read original article here Denial of responsibility! Techno Blender is an automatic aggregator of the all world’s media. In each content, the hyperlink to the primary source is specified. All trademarks belong to their rightful owners, all materials to their…

India’s Edtech Startups Regroup as Pandemic Bonanza Fizzles

NEW DELHI—The hottest thing in India’s online-education industry right now is going offline.After two years of blistering growth, sparked by one of the world’s longest Covid-19 school shutdowns, India hosts an increasingly crowded field of education-technology unicorns. Six have hit the $1 billion valuation milestone since the March 2020 nationwide lockdown. They joined Byju’s, which got there in 2017 and is now the world’s most valuable edtech startup, with a $22 billion price tag after a funding round in March,…

That Fancy University Course? It Might Actually Come From an Education Company.

The online education company uses the “.edu” email addresses of partner universities to recruit students for them. It funds scholarships. The company also uses equipment that makes it look as if its recruiters are calling from universities’ area codes. American universities are searching for ways to generate more revenue. As a result, hundreds of schools—including Vanderbilt University, the University of California, Berkeley, and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill—are teaming up with for-profit…