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How States Can Take a Grassroots Approach to Training More Bilingual Teachers

Edsurge

stems from a lack of role models, inaccessible and unaffordable higher ed teacher training programs and weak academic language skills among would-be educators. Mandatory English immersion wasn’t repealed in California until 2016. Experts say the dearth of bilingual education teachers in the U.S.

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2016 Digital Humanities Training Opportunities

ProfHacker

Last year, I wrote a post rounding up the DH training opportunities as I knew them for the summer of 2015 (and beyond). The 2016 list is quite similar. It includes, as a part of the DH Training Network: DHSI (June 6-10 and 13-17 2016). DHSI@Congress (1-2 June 2016, Calgary). DH@Oxford (4-8 July 2016).

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The Diversity and Equity Movement at ISTE 2016

Teacher Reboot Camp

EdSpeakers is the group I founded with Rusul Alrubail , Valerie Lewis , Jaison Oliver , Sarah Thomas , Philip Cummings , William Jeffery , and Michael Benavides to help spread diverse voices at education conferences, on podcasts, for trainings, and consulting. — Rusul رسل (@RusulAlrubail) June 29, 2016. DdFwcycyts.

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Why cybersecurity training programs are critical

eSchool News

As more and more schools are implementing cybersecurity training programs, the role of IT leaders in the K-12 environment is changing from a technology focus to a more strategic focus on the enablement of digital learning and digital transformation. Related content: 5 best practices for starting a cybersecurity training program.

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A Bootcamp Down Under: Trilogy Education Extends University Tech Training Globally

Edsurge

As technology companies from Google to Salesforce plant roots in Australia, government and business leaders down under are trying to figure out ways to train students and workers to keep up with a changing workforce. Colleges pay Trilogy to create and market short-term tech training programs, often hosted through a continuing-education arm.

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A handful of colleges are finally providing training in a way consumers want it: fast

The Hechinger Report

Now he’s training in a fast-track program to become an industrial maintenance technician. Orr recounts this with surprising good humor, early in the morning in a brightly lighted classroom at the Valencia College Center for Accelerated Training. The whole idea is to get you trained quickly and into a job.”. million in August.

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With new “talent visas,” other countries lure workers trained at U.S. universities

The Hechinger Report

universities can apply for an optional practical training, or OPT, visa that allows them to stay in the country for 12 to 36 months , depending on what they studied, after which they have to get an employer sponsor and enter the lottery for an H-1B visa. “Why Sergei Nozdrenko at London’s busy Liverpool Street train station.

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