EdTech4Beginners
JANUARY 31, 2024
Technology innovations like artificial intelligence, virtual reality and advanced simulation are changing how nurses and doctors are trained. The World Health Organization predicts a worldwide shortfall of 15 million healthcare workers by 2030. Countries must scale up their medical training programs quickly.
The Hechinger Report
SEPTEMBER 17, 2021
These efforts are two of the 15 recommendations in a project called the Moon Shot for Equity, a plan that seeks to eliminate college graduation equity gaps by 2030. The Moon Shot program is specifically designed to close gaps for Black, Latino, Native American, first generation and other historically underserved students by 2030.
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The Hechinger Report
FEBRUARY 1, 2021
Shareef’s mother saw a TV commercial for a program that offered 12 weeks of training for technology careers, tuition-free. The federal government alone runs dozens of training-related programs, and state and nonprofit programs abound, too. Then the coronavirus pandemic hit and Shareef was laid off. But what happened next has not.
The Hechinger Report
OCTOBER 13, 2022
As schools across the South grapple with vacancies, many turn to those without teaching certificates or formal training to serve students. In Oklahoma, lawmakers expanded an “adjunct” program that enables schools to hire applicants without teacher training if they meet a local board’s qualifications. 11, 2022, in Athens, Ala.
The Hechinger Report
DECEMBER 21, 2020
Nursing programs are falling behind demand for nurses as health protocols limit in-person instruction, instructors quit and hospitals are stretched too thin to provide required hands-on clinical training. Hospitals are stretched too thin to provide required hands-on clinical training. Credit: James Bernal for The Hechinger Report.
The Hechinger Report
MARCH 30, 2023
The campaign, which held several events and panels during SXSW.edu, aims not only to retain educators of color but to add one million teachers of color and 30,000 school leaders of color to the workforce by 2030. According to El-Mekki, student voices are vital to this campaign.
The Hechinger Report
JULY 29, 2022
It’s part of an accelerating movement of noncredit, short-term training programs, not just in technology, but in many fields for which students are impatient for jobs and employers for workers who want to leapfrog their way to careers — and do it without necessarily spending the years and money it takes to earn a university degree.
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