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Community Colleges Have Long Powered the Economy. To Sustain That Role, They Must Innovate.

Edsurge

Compare that to companies today, like the e-commerce giant Amazon, which in 2019 reportedly employed 798,000 persons and is currently projected to employ more than 1 million by the end of 2020. At its peak, coal production employed more than 862,000 persons as coal miners.

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Transforming Compton’s Schools into a STEAM Pipeline for Students

edWeb.net

99% of the students qualify for free or reduced-price lunches, but the district’s graduation rate is now over 90%, exceeding the state and national averages. Elementary students participate in groups such as Girls Who Code and a Lego League, while middle school students can join e-sport leagues or do work as “medical detectives.”

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A Thinking Person’s Guide to EdTech News (2017 Week 28 & 29 Editions)

Doug Levin

graduation rates — up to a record 83 percent — and whether it is real or an elaborate scam. " Tagged on: July 23, 2017 Education Division Strategic Plan | National Governors Association → NGA's Education Division has a new strategic plan (2017-2020), which includes a focus on personalized learning. ."

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Teaching students specific technical skills

Neo LMS

This essentially means preparing students for a changed world of work, one where computers/ robots/ AI are increasingly able to perform human functions: the top functions likely to be taken over by data crunching learning machines are in the legal and accounting professions, as well as rote and repetitive manual tasks.

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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

Before the Covid-19 pandemic, public school enrollment in the United States had been trending downward , thanks to birth-rate declines and more restrictive immigration policies, but the decreases rarely exceeded half a percentage point. Not this specific conversation, of course, but ones like it. Credit: Sonya Abrams for The Hechinger Report.

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COVID-19 Is Accelerating the Digital Blending of Working and Learning

Edsurge

E-commerce purchases of all types have surged. Retailers such as The Gap are accelerating the adoption of robots in their warehouses. Knowledge work has moved online as professionals work remotely. This is an exciting frontier that we are continuing to study and pioneer at Northeastern—and we are eager to engage partners in this work.

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3 ways to make social-emotional learning REAL for students

The Cornerstone for Teachers

As a result of this work, led by Byron, his school recently won the 2019-2020 Whole Child Award. And if we approach it from, W e know what’s best and our rule is the rule of law, we’re going to fail every single time. They are not machines, they are not robots, we cannot push them 24/7.