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To Improve Education, We Need to Look at the Last 50 Years, Not Just the Last 18 Months

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As a result, more than one in 16 workers—25 percent more than before the pandemic—will need to find a new job by 2030. States like my home state of North Carolina are addressing broadband access, because technology is now a basic need for students in the same way up-to-date textbooks once were. Several efforts are underway.

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A Bootcamp Down Under: Trilogy Education Extends University Tech Training Globally

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As much as 50 percent of employees in the country could be working in roles that require programming or software skills by 2030, according to estimates in a 2016 report by the National Broadband Network and the Regional Australia Institute. Trilogy’s worldly ambitious extend beyond Australia.

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The Past Decade Forecasts a New Wave of Economic Opportunity in Education

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But computing power, device adoption, pervasive broadband and exponentially networked collaboration platforms of the past decade have already moved us to a world of information abundance. According to Dell Technologies and the Institute for the Future, 85 percent of the jobs in 2030 don’t exist yet.

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How Library Closures Hurt Adult Learners as Kids Doubled Down on Digital Reading

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Libraries Close, Internet Access Ends There have been several studies about how the lack of fast home broadband has hurt kids’ access to online learning during school closures. When asked which of five technical innovations they’d like to see in education by 2030, respondents in all three countries had virtual reality as their top selection.

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How Do You Prepare Students for Jobs That Don’t Exist Yet? Karen Cator Has Some Ideas.

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A lot of people say that by 2030, when our current kindergartners are high school graduates, automation will have phased out many career paths that are available today. Some of the research by the McKinsey Global Institute says that by 2030 the transitions will be challenging, the transitions to different kinds of jobs.

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