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Most Popular EdSurge Podcast Episodes of 2019

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High School Dropout. The title of Anthony Johnson’s book explains why he’s an unlikely educator: it’s called “High School Dropout to Teacher of the Year.” Replacing VHS tapes with YouTube clips is probably not the ideal version of moving a classroom into the 21st century. Will the Edtech Industry Pay Attention?

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Implementing Innovation Strategies to Make School Districts More Equitable

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The disruptions and changes during the past year have made a return to the industrial education model of the 19th and 20th centuries problematic for school districts committed to preparing diverse students for 21st century careers. By Robert Low. WATCH THE EDWEBINAR RECORDING. LISTEN TO THE PODCAST. WATCH THE EDWEBINAR RECORDING.

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OPINION: Why we must invest in new, innovative workforce training to fill a skills gap

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Initiatives like these will help us boost skills-training efforts across the country and could help raise the profile of lesser-known, critical and in-demand jobs in the IT industry. For example, at energy companies, data scientists help reduce costs, maximize investments and improve public safety.

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Facing a white-collar worker shortage, American companies seek a blue-collar solution

The Hechinger Report

The dean’s list student ended up a college dropout, a gay 20-something cut off from his parents after coming out, and working at a UPS Store in a job he described as “retail drudgery” while running up credit card debt and stringing out his college loans. It turned out instead to be a bump in the road. He’d hit “absolute rock bottom.”.

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Redesigning, Reimagining, and Rethinking American Education

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Students need their schools to help them build SEL skills to prepare them for life outside the classroom. Education leaders need to figure out what the new classroom dynamic looks like, if there even is a classroom, and how technology could help them reach more students. Three Essential Recommendations. About the Moderator.

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It’s Time To Unlearn & Relearn Learning

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According to Sir Ken Robinson modern American Education has fallen prey to the terrible twin pillars of a collapsing 19th Century dinosaur which we know as the Industrial Revolution: (i) Stuck in an outmoded economic theory, and. (ii) And it’s not just in the classroom. ii) Post-colonial cultural quagmire. billion annually.

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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

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James Wiley is a technology analyst with Eduventures, which does consulting work for companies in the predictive analytics industry. The dropout problem got a lot worse in the 1990s when more people started attending college. January 16, 2019. Then it matches the patterns to students who ultimately dropped out.

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