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When a Pandemic Upends Labor Markets, Will a New Workforce ISA Fund Work?

Edsurge

In 2018, Cachu took a job at an Amazon distribution center about 30 miles from his home in Escondido, Calif., He was working for a tech company, but this was no tech job. If students don’t get a job that meets that income threshold, the monthly payments are deferred. sorting and scanning packages.

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‘Millions upon millions’ in employer-funded education benefits go unused

The Hechinger Report

She’d married not long after graduating from high school in 1981, had three children soon after that, and then gone to work for McDonald’s to make ends meet after her marriage ended. But after 27 years with a company with education benefits — benefits Thomas pitches to other employees — she still hadn’t taken advantage of them herself.

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Where education systems stumble, grassroots groups step in to raise success rates

The Hechinger Report

Among other things, the boosters who pitched international companies to come and do business in this port city promised that its high quality of education would guarantee a steady supply of skilled employees. High school graduation rates in Mobile are way up, from 55 percent before 2011 to 86 percent in 2018. MOBILE, Ala.

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Colleges are using big data to track students in an effort to boost graduation rates, but it comes at a cost

The Hechinger Report

In meetings with his academic adviser during the second semester of his freshman year, Robinson said he learned that though his GPA was solid, the school’s computer algorithm saw trouble. Companies like Amazon and Netflix have been using data tools like these for years to track our clicks and steer us to buy or watch more of their products.

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Is the hardest job in education convincing parents to send their kids to a San Francisco public school?

The Hechinger Report

She moved to the Bay Area in 2018 to work for a different charter network, and that’s when she met the handsome, “uncommonly honest” school counselor. The first family told her they live in Mission Bay, a rapidly redeveloping area where a new elementary school isn’t scheduled to open until 2025. Often, they fail. But change is coming.

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Racial gaps in college degrees are widening, just when states need them to narrow

The Hechinger Report

The figure is through 2018, the most recent year for which this data is available. You don’t have the companies if you don’t have the workers. Lumina is among the funders of The Hechinger Report, which produced this story.) It’s a problem with implications beyond equity and fairness. That’s how it works. It’s that simple.”.

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A year in the life of a small-town superintendent shows the federal bailout won’t be enough

The Hechinger Report

A 2019 study from the nonpartisan Albert Shanker Institute found only five states spend enough money to help students in high-poverty school districts achieve test scores that meet the national average; Washington ranked among the lowest spenders on that list. In 2018, she had joined the teacher walkout to secure a better contract.