A bipartisan bill introduced last week would add new guardrails around income-share agreements, a student aid alternative that, until recently, had limited federal oversight. ISA lenders and consumer advocates alike have been calling for clarification on the legal rules they must follow since the Education Department clarified in March that…
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UT Southwestern launched a two-year Master of Science in Health Informatics (MSHI) program through the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences last year. DALLAS – Aug. 01, 2022 – Leveraging its broad expertise in biomedical informatics, data sciences, and clinical sciences, UT Southwestern Medical Center is aggressively expanding its involvement in clinical informatics, which…
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How will school districts and the State Board of Education handle complaints that a teacher is attempting to “indoctrinate” students? As the school year gets underway this week across Coastal Georgia, the hubbub of students flocking hallways again isn’t the only sound one’s bound to hear. Another is the anxious…
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Ofir Paldi is the Founder & CEO of Shamaym, a leading provider of collaborative real-time learning solutions. getty From its earliest days more than two years ago, the Covid-19 pandemic hit hospitals and healthcare facilities with abrupt and harrowing changes. For healthcare workers, the trauma still reverberates. So it matters…
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The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted school education around the globe, and is expected to widen the learning gap, with a disproportionate effect on the world’s most marginalised students. It has also created additional barriers for the achievement of Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 4 – education for all – when there…
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An extensive literature in economics shows that workers experience large and persistent earnings losses following a job displacement. Given the millions of workers that were displaced during the COVID-19 recession and the high income inequality in the United States, it is important to understand the role that job displacements may…