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Edtech Bootstrapping 101: A Survival Story

Edsurge

Summer 2014 After 10 years in business, our tutoring company, SurePrep Learning goes under after the elimination of a federal tutoring program. October 2014 My wife and I patch things up. As a former video game designer for Sony Playstation, I’m pretty sure this is going to be easy. My mom passes away.

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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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Impatient with universities’ slow pace of change, employers go around them

The Hechinger Report

million new tech jobs will be created between 2014 and 2024, many of them requiring people with data and computer-science credentials. It usually manages to fill just two or three of those positions, Soni said. Soni is more blunt. “The industry would be very satisfied if higher education was taking care of it,” said Eaton. “I

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Education Technology and the History of the Future of Credentialing

Hack Education

If you want a job as a software developer in the technology industry, you’ll need a college degree. million ads for software-developer jobs nationwide. million ads for software-developer jobs nationwide. Preferably from Stanford.) … Nationally, 68% of adults over age 25 don’t have bachelor’s degrees.

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'Robots Are Coming For Your Jobs'

Hack Education

Both had been acquired by for-profit college companies, a convenient target – no surprise – for entrepreneurial blame at the bootcamps’ failures: Dev Bootcamp was bought in 2014 by Kaplan Inc and Iron Yard was acquired in 2015 by the Apollo Education Group, the parent company of the University of Phoenix. ” (Ha.