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Innovative Schools Prioritize Maker Learning

Digital Promise

In March 2016, Digital Promise and Maker Ed issued a call-to-action for school leaders around the country to commit to growing the next generation of American makers. Baltimore County Public Schools has plans to launch a Mobile Innovation Lab, opening access to maker learning opportunities to over 100,000 students in 174 schools districtwide.

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Blurring the lines between education and workforce

The Hechinger Report

In a July 2021 report , the two proposed blurring the last two years of high school with the first two years of college to modernize our secondary and post-secondary education and training systems and connect them “more tightly to the world of work and careers,” according to Vargas who, with Hartung, was among the report’s authors.

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Storms over liberal education: notes on the 2016 AAC&U conference

Bryan Alexander

Last week I participated in the American Association of Colleges and Universities (AAC&U) 2016 conference. The event became much more dramatic than expected, once the hosting city, Washington DC, was clobbered by the great snowpocalyspe of 2016. Discussion went in some interesting angles, such as secondary education.

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GED and other high school equivalency degrees drop by more than 40% nationwide since 2012

The Hechinger Report

Red states are where the annual issuance of new high school equivalency diplomas has fallen by more than 50 percent between 2012 and 2016. Specifically, the annual number of test takers who completed one of the three exams has fallen more than 45 percent from more than 570,000 in 2012 to roughly 310,000 in 2016. Data source: Thomas J.

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Why the World’s Youngest Continent Got an Edtech Accelerator

Edsurge

Secondary schools can only take in 36 percent of students who finish primary school. In South Africa, the youth unemployment rate topped 50 percent in 2016. To that point, several teams are building solutions for “feature phones,” mobile devices that can connect to the internet but have limited storage and support for third-party apps.

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Lessons Learned While Creating Long Lasting Change in Providence Public Schools

Edsurge

As the largest school district in Rhode Island, Providence Public Schools makes up 25% of the state’s entire elementary and secondary student population. This case study was originally published on Getting Smart. In partnership with. The study would engage technical staff as well as coaches and programmatic personnel.

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Oklahoma district boasts ‘best in state’ STEM innovation labs

eSchool News

million contribution to the Bartlesville Public School District to build Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) labs at Bartlesville’s three secondary schools. The Bartlesville High School and Madison Middle School labs were completed in late 2015 and the Central Middle School lab is scheduled to be completed in August 2016.

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