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It’s Time To Unlearn & Relearn Learning

EdNews Daily

That F often transposed into poor work reports or lateral/downward movements in the company. University of California, California high school dropouts cost state $46.4 2007 ([link]. If you pursued employment, that A turned into a raise, a better office space, or prestige among your colleagues. billion annually. UC Santa Barbara.

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Former Superintendent of the Year Mark Edwards to Join Discovery Education

Marketplace K-12

Mark Edwards—the 2013 national superintendent of the year who taught thousands of educators how technology can play a pivotal role in improving academic results—will join Discovery Education in August, the company announced today. school district since 2007, will be the senior vice president of digital learning for the Silver Spring, Md.-based

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What if we hired for skills, not degrees?

The Hechinger Report

On a laptop in the nearly empty office, he worked on code for a webpage he was developing for his employer, the learning materials company Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. In half an hour, he needed to join a conference call about changes to the company’s website. He had been at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt for four months. in February 2019.

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As enrollment falls and colleges close, a surprising number of new ones are opening

The Hechinger Report

The Roux Institute opened last year in borrowed space in this tech company building on the Portland, Maine, waterfront to teach computer science and other subjects. Thanks to one-on-one counseling like this, the dropout rate is a third lower than at conventional universities and colleges, according to figures provided by the school.

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DEBT WITHOUT DEGREE: The human cost of college debt that becomes “purgatory”

The Hechinger Report

Students who withdraw are also much more likely to default on their loans; dropouts make up two-thirds of defaults nationwide. The number of dropouts with federal loans at these institutions has grown from 35,443 in 2007-09 to more than 56,600 in 2013-15. In that time the median student debt at most schools more than doubled.

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Can ‘work colleges’ in cities become a low-cost, high-value model for the future?

The Hechinger Report

The companies select them,” Sorrell said. Sorrell took over as president of Paul Quinn in 2007 and is its longest serving president. When they demonstrate they can work at a higher level, the college helps them find an off-campus job, Sorrell said. You have to compete.”.

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Trump has promised manufacturing jobs, but high school grads might want to seek credentialed “middle-skills” posts instead

The Hechinger Report

Those blue-collar jobs – at least as we remember them in our collective imagination – went to people, mostly men, fresh out of high school, graduate and dropout alike. The Great Recession of 2007-09 economy devastated America’s least-educated workers. It was all the education they needed to earn a middle-class living.

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