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CSU and California Community Colleges Partner on a Tool To Find Transferable Online Courses

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A report by the Public Policy Institute of California found in 2013 that nearly 600,000 students could not enroll in classes after budget cuts that led to reduced staffing and slashed course offerings. California community colleges have also struggled in the past to help students get the courses they need to finish on time.

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Top EdSurge Higher Education Stories of 2019

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Report: Gates Foundation’s College Advising Initiative Had Little Impact on Students by Tony Wan Since 2013, the Gates Foundation has funded colleges and companies for its Integrated Planning and Advising for Student Success (iPASS) initiative, which supports data analytics and technology tools that help college advisors.

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Chinese New Year- What Animal Am I?

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

1929, 1941, 1953, 1965, 1977, 1989, 2001, 2013, 2025), you are likely to have these traits: thoughtfulness and a profound sense of decision making, you mean what you say, a smart communicator, "you always have the facts to defend your what you think—and rarely back down." If you were born in the Dragon year (e.g.,1928,

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Why Language Learning Apps Haven’t Helped Struggling ELL Students

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schools during the 2013-2014 school year, and the National Education Association predicts that number will increase to 10 million by 2025. (In Thirteen companies and nonprofits received as much as $200,000 in grants from NSVF to fill those market needs. According to the. National Center for Education Statistics , over 4.9

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Why the Boldest Ideas in Education Come From Underrepresented Entrepreneurs

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Launched in 2013, the program focuses specifically on supporting minority- and female-led ventures through a combination of coaching, networking and financial support in the form of a $40,000 investment. Camelback started with three partners in 2013: the Walton Family Foundation, NewSchools Venture Fund and Kapor Capital.

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After decades of pushing bachelor’s degrees, U.S. needs more tradespeople

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At California Steel Industries, where Esparza was learning industrial computing, some supervisors without college degrees make as much as $120,000 per year and electricians also can make six figures, company officials said. Skilled trades show among the highest potential among job categories, the economic-modeling company Emsi calculates.

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Why a Robot-Filled Education Future May Not Be as Scary as You Think

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PwC explains that the cost of DNA sequencing per genome has fallen from $96 million in 2001 to less than $6,000 in 2013. We freeze up when we hear statistics that project that by 2025, 50 percent of an undergraduate degree will become obsolete. Today, we can purchase a 23andMe kit for $20 for a personal genetic test.

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