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This Workforce Partnership Trains Tech Talent. Can It Boost Civic Engagement Too?

Edsurge

That effort got a boost in 2014, when the California Department of Education awarded Career Pathways Trust Grants to K-12 and community college districts to support work-based learning and career pathway opportunities for high school students. Today there are three main components to PilotCity’s programming.

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'Robots Are Coming For Your Jobs'

Hack Education

.” That’s because the stories told this year to keep us hustling and to keep up imagining a certain kind of future are almost all about robots. Over and over and over and over and over and over and over again we were told “robots are coming for your jobs.” We must prepare preschoolers for an automated future.