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It’s Time To Unlearn & Relearn Learning

EdNews Daily

According to Sir Ken Robinson modern American Education has fallen prey to the terrible twin pillars of a collapsing 19th Century dinosaur which we know as the Industrial Revolution: (i) Stuck in an outmoded economic theory, and. (ii) University of California, California high school dropouts cost state $46.4 2007 ([link].

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

The Hechinger Report

Demand for workers in solar is expected to nearly double by 2030, according to an industry census. The number of workers needed in the offshore wind energy industry will also nearly double, by 2025 , to 589,000, and increase to 868,000 by 2030, the consulting firm Rystad Energy estimates.

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What if we hired for skills, not degrees?

The Hechinger Report

Instead, he bounced from one unfulfilling job to the next in the hospitality and restaurant industries. They cited research showing that the proportion of job listings requiring a four-year degree increased by more than 10 percentage points from 2007 to 2010. . to $11 per hour.

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A vocational school curriculum that includes genocide studies and British literature

The Hechinger Report

When they go out into industry, we want them to know how to think.”. When they go out into industry, we want them to know how to think.”. Ideally, their high school graduates will be able to handle college-level work or step right into a good-paying job. Related: After decades of pushing bachelor’s degrees, U.S.

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Marching in Mardi Gras, a New Orleans school that once struggled shows off

The Hechinger Report

Carver sits in an isolated area bounded by the Interstate 10 freeway, railroad tracks, and the Industrial and Florida canals. A few years later, in 2007, Carver opened in temporary modular buildings behind the damaged structure. “The building where they studied is gone, but I can still feel them with us.”.

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School counselors keep kids on track. Why are they first to be cut?

The Hechinger Report

Aimed at curbing dropouts, improving graduation rates and sending more kids to college and other postsecondary programs, the corps is designed to offset a growing achievement gap in this relatively affluent but increasingly diverse state. “When there’s a budget cut, counselors are the first to go.”. percent are Hispanic and 7.6

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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 strong downturn in production industries in this country can be traced to 1983. The Great Recession of 2007-09 economy devastated America’s least-educated workers.

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