The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

My school also does an amazing job of incorporating real-life scenarios into its teaching. In my math classes, lessons often describe how the math I’m learning is used in various careers. Students share ideas on class topics through frequent online discussions. Everyone is welcome to comment on or add to one another’s ideas.

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Edsurge

JULY 26, 2022

The universities—Otterbein University and Antioch University—will share costs and jointly manage graduate-level courses and career certificates and badges for adult learners, while hanging onto independence in their undergraduate offerings. News won't reward us for it. We don't care.”

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 5, 2020

A 2015 survey found only 20 percent of early-career principals in schools with pre-K classrooms felt “well-versed” in early ed. Principals have a complex job and there’s no way for them to know everything about every grade level and every subject level in their building.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Reinvest in teachers’ career growth and knowledge-building Many districts bookend the school year with professional development workshops for teachers, but continuing education and career training opportunities available throughout the year have the greatest benefit. Publicize job and volunteer opportunities within school districts.

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The CoolCatTeacher

AUGUST 21, 2023

This week's sponsor EVERFI - Free Digital Lessons for All Ages Want to prepare your students for career and life success but short on time? Lauren: A lot of them connect with a mom or a dad and something that they have kind of have 3 attached to maybe their job or their profession. When we do it, we also had mentors. Vicki: Okay.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

While data science isn’t a new subject, there’s been growing interest recently in helping students — in both K-12 and higher ed — gain data science skills. One reason is the shifting job market, said Zarek Drozda, director of Data Science 4 Everyone, a national initiative based at the University of Chicago.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 23, 2022

INDIANAPOLIS — Before the pandemic, 14-year-old Kynadi Chandler, as is typical of middle schoolers, had career goals that were all over the place. Many watched their parents get ill, lose jobs or try to work from home. Related: What does career readiness look like in middle school? Or a nurse.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

Quickly, this morphed to helping students determine the career path best-suited for their innate abilities, interests, and skills. encouraging career development and planning (academic advising, school to post secondary or career transitions, and workforce effectiveness). online college and career applications.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 31, 2019

Jobs in information technology are growing quickly and employers are trying to find ways to get kids excited about careers in the field. He asks: Not knowing what tasks will be automated or what future jobs will look like, how do schools train for a workplace that does not yet exist? Automation threatens 47 percent of jobs.

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Edsurge

MARCH 17, 2018

This framework allows for students to use knowledge from all areas of study to complete a project or task, a process that prepares them for the challenges that they may have to overcome in a future career. Having a job may seem a lifetime away for a child. These stories are what make the switch to PBL so fulfilling.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

It comes down to three words: jobs, jobs and jobs,” Mitchell said at a conference convened by the Rossier School of Education at the University of Southern California (USC). It comes down to three words: jobs, jobs and jobs.” What do families need most? Lucido asked the audience. No one answered.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

But his career trajectory is far from typical. For these reasons, college career counselors can learn a lot about postgraduate success from from colleges’ athletics departments. Related: Some colleges start using their long winter breaks to help students plan for jobs.

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EmergingEdTech

JANUARY 2, 2023

You can improve your financial situation without compromising your rewarding teaching career by picking up a side hustle. Several marketplaces allow teachers to upload courses on virtually any topic you can think of. Sign up on a job board like Fiverr or Upwork and start connecting with potential clients. Creating Printables.

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Hapara

MAY 25, 2023

Whether they choose topics to explore or decide how they want to showcase what they know, learners are more engaged. According to an eSchool News survey , “65% of American educators say student-led learning is extremely valuable in developing 21st-century skills.” You can also let them decide how they’ll show what they’ve learned.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 13, 2022

Thirty-eight governors raised the topic of higher education spending during their state-of-the-state addresses, an analysis by the National Governors Association found. States are also directing growing amounts of financial aid to students who choose majors that can train them for in-demand jobs. Henry McMaster said. A welding student.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 9, 2017

There are dozens of reasons, from new bosses who want to shake things up to your husband gets a job in a different state. The only good news: Your boss told you already, giving you time to job hunt for the new school year. For you as a job hunting educator, this becomes the best time of year to find a job.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 9, 2018

World Literature Forum is an online discussion board that examines all forms of literature and literary news. It’s a place to discuss specific books (fiction and non-fiction) and discover new authors. How to Use Tech to Help Graduating Students Find Jobs. World Literature Forum. College Guidance. College Confidential.

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EdNews Daily

APRIL 10, 2019

Most kids know how to name Albert Einstein or Steve Jobs, but how many famous women in STEM can they name? Women only make up 30 percent of all professional computing jobs and less than 5 percent are women of color. Many of the women portrayed in STEM jobs in Hollywood are limited to the medical profession. About the Authors.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 11, 2020

Today, it means redesigning the education system to create learners who are constantly educating themselves in the home, on the job, in the community and everywhere else. Every student will need the skills to seek out, design and communicate learning opportunities as they graduate into a quickly changing job market.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 29, 2022

Many of his friends took the same shortcut to good jobs at companies including Sony and Lockheed Martin. In some cases, the classes have already changed the students’ job plans. “I After doing this program for almost five months now, I saw that I wanted to change my career.”. Credit: Yunuen Bonaparte for The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Alphina Kamara wonders what might have happened if she’d been introduced to science and engineering careers at her Wilmington, Delaware, high school. Historically, career and technical education (CTE) was seen as a dumping ground for students who weren’t considered college material. This story also appeared in The Associated Press.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 25, 2020

That’s a principal reason more and more information about job opportunities and salaries is being made available to students and their families, most recently by the federal government, which this month expanded a feature of its College Scorecard website showing the earnings payoffs of 37,459 majors at 4,434 colleges and universities.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 15, 2022

A prominent anti-vaccine campaigner, Heckenlively made world news in 2017 when he was denied entry to Australia for a lecture tour to encourage parents to stop vaccinating their children, according to the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Related: Helping science teachers tackle misinformation and controversial topics.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

They’ve followed news stories and seen video clips of an insurrection at the nation’s capital. These hate and bias incidents, paired with the stressors brought on by the pandemic, can cause serious mental, social, emotional and college-and-career readiness challenges for youth. That requires thoughtful planning in advance.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

One wanted evidence that Black and Hispanic lives matter, another wanted more life lessons and career training. The pandemic was a hard time, he recalled: “First you had Covid where you had to be quarantined and then a lot of people were losing their jobs and couldn’t feed their families.” Middle school years are tough years.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

they hold less than one third of the jobs in science and engineering. When we are learning a STEM subject, or going further into a topic from a STEM point of view, we often talk about how we need to identify the problem, make some sort of solution, try out our solution, and then think again,” Waldner said. What worked?

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 19, 2019

Fourth graders can master college-level biochemistry topics but most teachers don’t even consider trying to teach them. He sees it as an important way to keep girls, especially, interested in science long enough to consider it as a career option. Life is full of examples like this. We do sell kids short sometimes,” he said.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

The title is “ College Reunion ,” and I wrote on the subject because I was a year away from my own 20-year reunion at an HBCU, and the topic provided a unique opportunity to uplift Black women and spotlight Historically Black Colleges and Universities. In 2021, at the height of the pandemic, I wrote a movie.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 10, 2022

Educators teach, sometimes administer a test and move students on to the next unit or body of material regardless of their results, effort and understanding of the topic. Compare that to a system in which all children master the skills they need to successfully do jobs once they graduate. Sign up for Hechinger’s newsletter.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 12, 2018

. Teaching is the hardest job I’ve ever had. I began my educational career as a fourth-grade teacher in the Compton Unified School District in Southern California and, like most new educators, the first months were a struggle to master the topics and basic classroom skills. Sign up for the Hechinger newsletter.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 10, 2021

Curley told Jake she’d love to have him in the class, which covered topics such as study skills, but he needed to promise to upload his assignments every week and come to the live Zoom session every Monday morning. Curley, Newcomb High’s college and career readiness coordinator, saw many stories like this in the past year.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 29, 2021

There were also heightened concerns that higher education must do a better job serving diverse racial and ethnic groups as well as those from low-income backgrounds, who tend to be woefully underrepresented in degree attainment. The future of higher education and the state of child care were big topics at the ASU-GSV summit in San Diego.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 20, 2021

When I started my career as a fourth grade bilingual teacher, I was given two binders. My job was to ensure that my students, all of whom were categorized as English learners (ELs), met these grade-level and proficiency standards by the end of the year. One included academic standards for my state. Sign up for Hechinger’s newsletter.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 5, 2023

Credit: Marissa Leshnov for The Hechinger Report Vega-Tatum has held jobs before, but College Corps is different. Some 3,200 students, many of them the first in their families to attend college, are participating in the inaugural year of the New Deal-esque program , in service jobs in K-12 education, food insecurity and climate mitigation.

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Edsurge

APRIL 8, 2019

In the job market and among professionals, demand for credentials and learning beyond the bachelor’s degree is strong. job openings in the year 2018 requested a graduate degree. These offerings respond to the increasing need for lifelong learning and career development. Graduate education has been a bright spot in U.S.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 2, 2018

Stuart Udell has overseen nearly two dozen mergers and acquisitions across his career in the education industry, which spans stints at Penn Foster, Catapult Learning and K12 Inc. Dodelson stepped down as CEO in April 2018 and was succeeded by Udell who took over the job in May. But the market has not been kind to other startups.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 25, 2018

Some states are waiting for Congressional reauthorization of legislation on career and technical education. Inspired by demand from families, students and businesses, career and technical education is experiencing a resurgence in states across the nation. Related: Are apprenticeships the new on-ramp to good jobs?

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