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It’s Time To Unlearn & Relearn Learning

EdNews Daily

Gruia, “The education pipeline in the United States 1970-2000,” (The National Board on Educational Testing and Public Policy, Boston, 2004). University of California, California high school dropouts cost state $46.4 Journal of Neuroscience 37, 8549-8558 (2017). Open Education Europe, Barcelona, Spain, 2017). Stevens, T.

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What if we hired for skills, not degrees?

The Hechinger Report

In the fall of 2017, he moved to Boston and enrolled in a community college, planning to transfer to a four-year program. In 2014, the labor market analysis firm Burning Glass Technologies tried to capture the extent of degree inflation. Matthew Sigelman, CEO of Burning Glass Technologies, a labor market analysis firm.

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We won’t have any black Mark Zuckerbergs or Bill Gates till we do this

The Hechinger Report

So says a 2017 study published by the Institute of Policy Studies. About one-third of all black collegians earn degrees in either a STEM-related (science, technology, engineering and math) field or in business, according to my analysis of integrated post-secondary education data system (IPEDS), the national dataset of college outcomes.

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