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It’s Time To Unlearn & Relearn Learning

EdNews Daily

You’re just using the tool we’re all familiar with. 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 It’s not your fault. billion annually. UC Santa Barbara.

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What if we hired for skills, not degrees?

The Hechinger Report

To screen candidates, the company looks for a “tech stack”: a list of programming languages and tools a candidate knows. In a survey of its alumni dating to 2004, Just-A-Start said the 143 respondents indicated that they have seen an average salary increase of $14,778 per year compared to their previous jobs. in February 2019.

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Why decades of trying to end racial segregation in gifted education haven’t worked

The Hechinger Report

There are gifted dropouts. Without the outreach and prep program, the Olmsted gifted program began to grow whiter — from 55 percent Black and 30 percent white in 2004 to 32 percent Black and 46 percent white in 2013, according to federal data. The academic screening tools “were patently unfair.”

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Georgia program for children with disabilities: ‘Separate and unequal’ education?

The Hechinger Report

Ten years later, the couple sat across a wooden table from Caleb, now 16, a high school dropout and, as of September, survivor of a suicide attempt. Now known as the Alpine Program, it was where 13-year-old Jonathan King, a child diagnosed with ADHD and depression, hanged himself in 2004 after being placed in a windowless “seclusion room.”