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Why America Needs More Black Male Teachers

Edsurge

We interviewed Outstanding Black Male Fellows from the National Network of State Teachers of the Year (NNSTOY) to critically examine the career trajectories of Black male educators from three perspectives: recruitment, retention, and mobility. And that number is highly unusual. A special story recently emerged regarding Roberts.

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OPINION: We can and must do better to help Black students enroll in college and succeed

The Hechinger Report

In stories detailing inequities, from post-graduation income gaps to programming that places Black students in less upwardly mobile career tracks , the news consistently demonstrates that our higher education system is not equitably serving Black learners. Related: The college degree gap between Black and white Americans was always bad.

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AllHere Gets a ‘Nudge’ to Scale Low-Cost, Research-Backed Way to Improve Student Outcomes

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What he found was that the right messages, delivered at the right time, can boost attendance and reduce course failure, as results published in The Journal of Human Resources in 2019 showed. A Nudge to Remember In an age when mobile apps and devices send alerts for just about anything, the idea of sending updates via SMS hardly seems radical.

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Beyond Bootcamps: How Employers Can Help Nontraditional Learners Succeed

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In the last six years the number of students graduating from coding bootcamps has reportedly increased 11-fold, to an estimated 23,043 in 2019. Although everyone wants magic solutions that can transform high-school dropouts into Google engineers in six months, this rarely happens. This doesn’t have to be hard.

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Will the coronavirus transform or destroy higher education as we know it?

The Hechinger Report

Harvard researcher Anthony Jacks revealed in his groundbreaking 2019 book how poor students cleaned showers and toilets and went hungry after cafeterias closed while their wealthier Ivy League classmates fled campus for ski resorts and spring break beaches. higher education system is fair had evaporated. Education as the great equalizer ?

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What if we hired for skills, not degrees?

The Hechinger Report

Analysts say that this “degree inflation,” as they call it, has shrunk opportunities for upward mobility for Americans without four-year degrees. in February 2019. To screen candidates, the company looks for a “tech stack”: a list of programming languages and tools a candidate knows. million — The number of job openings in the U.S.

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Students who drop out for mental health struggles are turning to pricey programs to find their way back

The Hechinger Report

The stakes are high for a student trying to return to school after a mental health leave of absence: thousands in tuition dollars and a college degree that could secure economic mobility for the future.

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