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What happened when a South Carolina city embraced career education for all its students

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Whittenberg has been around since 2010, when Greenville County Schools opened it as a magnet school in an area that is historically low-income and majority Black. AJ the robot is the school mascot at A.J. But you want them to have a kind of better, more full understanding of careers.”. Credit: Ariel Gilreath/The Hechinger Report.

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

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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 reality is that in recent years, 88 percent of job loss in manufacturing is due to gains in productivity , such as increased use of robots. During the recession, 5.6

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The messy reality of personalized learning

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Intermediary funders and education-policy groups that depend on their grant dollars — including iNACOL, Excel in Ed, the Learning Accelerator, Big Picture Learning and Jobs for the Future — have, in turn, made personalized learning a priority. In 2010, Rhode Island won a four-year, $75 million grant from Race to the Top.