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Business partnerships with community colleges help funnel workers into better jobs

The Hechinger Report

The Assisting Community Colleges in Educating Skilled Students to Careers Act — or ACCESS to Careers Act — is designed to increase the number of students who earn these types of credentials and the number of colleges meeting the needs of local employers. It could provide states with up to $2.5 million each to carry out the programs.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

The real digital divide, this article contends, is not that affluent children have access to better and faster technologies. (Um, There are, of course, vast inequalities in access to technology — in school and at home and otherwise — and in how these technologies get used. UC Berkeley Deletes Its Online Lectures. Um, they do.)

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

.” From the Republican National Convention: TurnItIn was pleased , I’m sure, to be invoked many times following Melania Trump ’s convention speech, which plagiarized passages from Michelle Obama ’s 2008 speech. The company, which helps universities build mobile apps, has raised $17.4 trashes U.S. million total.