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Colleges are adding programs in a once-decimated industry — manufacturing

The Hechinger Report

million manufacturing jobs will need to be filled by 2025. As robots take over much of the manual labor in factories, the new jobs being created tend to require computer and engineering skills and advanced training. Its first class — of nine students — graduated in June 2017. million by 2025 — is contributing to that gap.

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How cities are convincing voters to pay higher taxes for public preschool

The Hechinger Report

By the 2017-18 school year, students in Seattle Preschool Program (SPP) schools had made significant gains on vocabulary, literacy, and math tests given at the start and end of the school year , compared with a nationally representative sample of kids who took the same tests. But the city hopes to increase that number to 2,500 by 2025.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

You can read the series here: 2010 , 2011 , 2012 , 2013 , 2014 , 2015 , 2016 , 2017 , 2018 , 2019. In 2017, just a week before Christmas, the New Media Consortium abruptly announced its immediate closure “because of apparent errors and omissions by its former Controller and Chief Financial Officer.” billion by 2025.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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Emily Drabinski writes, “Our collective bargaining agreement is extended until May 31, 2017, and the administration agreed to our condition that we engage a professional mediator to facilitate a fair contract.” On the horizon: makerspaces, online learning, robotics, VR, artificial intelligence, and wearables.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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” More on the Afghan robotics team in the contest section below. for Robotics Contest.” ” are you s g me pic.twitter.com/4MZQqbVdOG — Timothy Burke (@bubbaprog) July 8, 2017. Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. .” Via The Atlantic : “The Schools Transforming Immigrant Education.”

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Hack Education Weekly News

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.” let PM = "signed"; if (PM "signed") { let CODING = "4 All"; } pic.twitter.com/QRKQPgbxjW — Ivanka Trump (@IvankaTrump) September 26, 2017. pic.twitter.com/lfNWyW7z5f — Shaun King (@ShaunKing) September 28, 2017. Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF.