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HE Challenges: Fast changing digital teaching methods

Neo LMS

They expect the same flexibility, mobility and always-on services they get with everything from travel and entertainment, also from educational providers. In essence, these opinions reflect what many people in the hospitality industry thought before AirBnB, or what taxi drivers thought before Uber. Skills gap.

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OPINION: As we eye post-pandemic life, it’s time to unclog the pipeline between education and work

The Hechinger Report

Case in point: Mobile, Alabama, where civic organizations, industry associations and churches successfully leaned on public schools and higher education institutions to improve student success rates. Then it asked employers to come up with action plans to coordinate industry needs with talent production. “If They had to.

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Beyond Bootcamps: How Employers Can Help Nontraditional Learners Succeed

Edsurge

Although everyone wants magic solutions that can transform high-school dropouts into Google engineers in six months, this rarely happens. When you’re new to an industry, it can be easy to take these experiences personally or feel like you’re alone in making mistakes. This doesn’t have to be hard.

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OPINION: Post-pandemic, let’s develop true education-to-workforce pathways to secure a better future

The Hechinger Report

Delivering on the promise of pathways means supporting every student with individualized college and career advising, expanding curricular options to include instruction in the skills needed in fast-growing industries and providing opportunities for earning college credit and industry credentials in high school.

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Let Evidence Guide the Solutions to Student Absenteeism

edWeb.net

Chronically absent middle schoolers have lower grades and test scores that increase dropout potential. He is a behavioral scientist who studies how mobilizing and empowering students’ social networks can increase student success. Chronic high school absenteeism affects grades, test scores, and graduation and college enrollment rates.

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What if we hired for skills, not degrees?

The Hechinger Report

Instead, he bounced from one unfulfilling job to the next in the hospitality and restaurant industries. Analysts say that this “degree inflation,” as they call it, has shrunk opportunities for upward mobility for Americans without four-year degrees. to $11 per hour. trillion in outstanding student loan debt. “My

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How a Billionaire’s Fellowship Spread Skepticism About College’s Value

Edsurge

They only back companies led by college dropouts and people who never studied in higher ed. And it turns out 11 of them have gone on to start companies now valued at more than a billion dollars, making them what are called unicorns in the industry. They founded a venture capital firm called the 1517 Fund.

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