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OPINION: How schools can find common ground in an era of education wars

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At the same time, McKinsey & Company estimates that automation and artificial intelligence will displace between 400 and 800 million jobs globally by 2030. And traditional public schools are facing increased competition from charter schools and independent schools.

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Students Face a Troubling Skills Gap Around Career Readiness. We’re Fixing It With Data.

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The goal as we see it is something we call “60x30TX,” or 60 percent of Texas adults ages 25-34 will hold a degree by 2030. The first year of piloting this program was a huge group effort. Our solution has a lot to do with data, namely the way it’s collected and leveraged across disparate systems.

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The Still-Evolving Future of University Credentials

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And major companies and industry groups are increasingly getting into the credentialing game, exemplified by firms such as IBM and Google. And the European Union, numerous individual countries, and various NGOs – as well as industry groups and educational leaders in the U.S. – are hard at work on standards frameworks.

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Education Looks Eastward: Snapshots from Beijing's Global Education Technology Summit

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China had a reputation for copying technology from Silicon Valley, but these days the country has developed its own unique technology environment—what a new book by Kai-Fu Lee, former head of Google China, calls an “alternate internet universe.” An estimated 34 percent of all mobile internet traffic in China flows through WeChat.

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Impatient for workers, businesses help students take college shortcuts

The Hechinger Report

This week, they’re building basic apps and games using Firebase, a Google platform. Workforce development nonprofits are springing up everywhere, as are efforts from companies including IBM and Google to bypass slow-moving colleges and universities and create their own courses and credentials.

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As enrollment falls and colleges close, a surprising number of new ones are opening

The Hechinger Report

Demand for workers in solar is expected to nearly double by 2030, according to an industry census. The number of workers needed in the offshore wind energy industry will also nearly double, by 2025 , to 589,000, and increase to 868,000 by 2030, the consulting firm Rystad Energy estimates.

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The 2020 Learning Revolution daily online conference starts today!

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Instead of giving a formal presentation, you'd like to guide a group discussion on a specific topic? You create a group for your topic, come up with a strand tag for your topic / group, encourage your audience (and/or others) to join learningrevolution.com and to submit topic-specific presentation proposals.