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New Survey Findings: Student Perceptions on Skilled Trades Education

EdNews Daily

million skilled trade positions unfilled between 2018 and 2028, which could have a potential economic impact of $2.5 Why is it so difficult to fill these accessible jobs with highly-trained professionals? […]. According to a 2018 Deloitte study, the skilled trades gap could leave an estimated 2.4 trillion in the U.S.

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Writing a College Essay That Stands Out

Edsurge

Class of 2028 supplemental essay prompt. A 2016 study of nearly 500 teachers across the country found that less than half had taken a college class focused on teaching writing, while fewer than a third had received training on specifically teaching children how to write. race, gender, sexuality, religion, community, etc.)

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Cae Announces Multiyear Partnership with Project Lead The Way 

eSchool News

The partnership, which commences with the 2023-2024 school year and continues through 2028, will leverage CAE’s best practices and decades of experience in developing high-quality innovative assessments. PLTW’s teacher training and resources support teachers as they engage their students in real-world learning.

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NAEP Scores Show a Long Road to Academic Recovery. Edtech Can Help Shorten It.

Edsurge

Recent headlines suggest it will take until 2028 for students to recover from these pandemic-related achievement declines. This dismal news further intensifies the pressure on district leaders to address learning gaps exacerbated by the pandemic, all while more than half of schools report teacher and staffing shortages.

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OPINION: Often overlooked vocational-tech schools provide great solutions to student debt, labor shortages

The Hechinger Report

A startling 3 million skilled trades jobs will sit unfilled by 2028. Vocational-technical high schools — or “voc-techs” as they are known — combine academic classes with on-the-job technical training. Voc-tech students graduate with industry-recognized credentials and the ability to pursue college if they choose.

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Ten jobs that are safe from robots

The Hechinger Report

The notion that we can train someone in 2018 for job requirements in 2028 isn’t realistic.”. The notion that we can train someone in 2018 for job requirements in 2028 isn’t realistic,” Fuller said. “The The notion that we can train someone in 2018 for job requirements in 2028 isn’t realistic,” Fuller said.

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Will the Rodriguez family’s college dreams survive the end of affirmative action?

The Hechinger Report

Some have cited advice from legal counsel in declining to release the racial and ethnic composition for the class of 2028. Several said that they would not have such data available even internally until after the admissions cycle wraps up next year.

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