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8 Ways to Teach Financial Literacy

The CoolCatTeacher

Look at the Accounting Careers Course Free from EVERFI Length of course: 2 lessons taking 10 minutes each Grades: 9-12 Curriculum Guide (PDF) Resource #6: Data Science Foundations for High School You’ve heard of “Big Data.” In our student’s future, “big data” means “big opportunities.” According to the U.S.

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

The Hechinger Report

Through 2029, growth in the IT sector is expected to rise 11 percent and add over half a million jobs to the U.S. Effectively review employee data to identify hard-to-find candidates across geographic and demographic lines. economy, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. After the year we’ve had, this is welcome news.

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Fostering a STEM Mindset through Spatial-Temporal Reasoning

MIND Research Institute

And according to the US Department of Labor and Statistics , the number of STEM careers is projected to grow by 8% by 2029. In upper elementary, students build and analyze line plots — initially by generating all the points themselves — by “kicking” a ball a variety of distances and then plotting those distances on a line graph.

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