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Not enough students have mentors, and we must change that

The Hechinger Report

Startups and established tech companies are providing a crash course in entrepreneurship, sending engineers and designers into public schools to mentor students. Working in the gig economy as a contractor with a ride-share company precludes the kinds of deep relationships that lead to professional advancement.

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How ‘Learning Engineering’ Hopes to Speed Up Education

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Herbert Simon, a pioneer in artificial intelligence and learning engineering who died in 2001, is immersed in his office at Carnegie Mellon University. Newkirk calls his company Acuitus , in hopes of encouraging sharpness of thought. The issue here is: how do you improve education by a factor of 10?”

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State Leadership Working Towards Broadband Access for All

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They collaborate to make sure the technology and services are meeting their current and future needs. He previously managed UConn’s Network Engineering and Data Center Operations teams, having started his career there as a junior network technician in the summer of 2001.

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Teachers of the world, unite. You have nothing to lose but your pain!

The Hechinger Report

Between 2005 and 2017, public schools in the U.S. The Title I program identifies what fiscal resources schools need, but Congress hasn’t allocated enough resources to meet those needs. You know, those things schools should have in their supply cabinets. Meanwhile, ordinary people are left to fill the gaps.

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The opioid crisis took their parents, now foster kids left behind are being failed again

The Hechinger Report

Indiana’s foster care intake has more than doubled since 2001 , the sharpest increase in the nation. That’s the thing that shocked me more than anything,” said O’Brien, who is now retired after decades working at Eli Lilly and Company, the pharmaceutical company. In Indiana, where Tessa lives, the situation is especially dire.

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DEBT WITHOUT DEGREE: Gaps in financial aid, funding contribute to growing number of Georgians with college loans and no college degree

The Hechinger Report

Alduha Leon takes a quick break while setting up for the travel party he and his business partner hosted in Adair Park in Atlanta on Saturday night, July 29, 2017. By 2017, tuition brought in 46 percent of these schools’ general revenue, and state appropriations had shrunk to 43 percent. “If Leon got a job at the Savannah airport.

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It all started in a German castle: How wilderness programs shape some urban schools

The Hechinger Report

After World War II broke out, Lawrence Holt, the father of one of Hahn’s students and a partner in a shipping company, noticed that many young sailors were dying after their ships were torpedoed, while older seamen were able to hang on. In 1933, Hahn fled Nazi Germany and opened a boarding school in an old estate near the Scottish coast.