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Beyond Bootcamps: How Employers Can Help Nontraditional Learners Succeed

Edsurge

Although everyone wants magic solutions that can transform high-school dropouts into Google engineers in six months, this rarely happens. According to its open-source playbook , Adobe teaches this so that apprentices can “learn quickly from their mistakes and build confidence.” Usually, when new hires succeed, so does the company.

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The Cause That Unites Chief IT and Academic Officers

Edsurge

That’s what an Adobe-commission survey , published in partnership with futurist Bryan Alexander and the New Media Consortium, revealed. FUN SAD FACT: According to Avi Yashchin, Senior Offering Manager at IBM Watson: “Sadness [sentiments] in incoming freshman college application essay is the sixth strongest predictor of dropout.”

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Adapting to the New Classroom

techlearning

The district faced challenges with dropouts and reduced graduation rates due to failed classes, school transfers, and absences due to weather and medical issues. iMac lab with Adobe Creative Suite ? District leaders began a search for adaptive and blended learning solutions. TOOLS THEY USE HOLY FAMILY ACADEMY, PITTSBURGH ? Canvas LMS

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Federal relief money boosted community colleges, but now it’s going away

The Hechinger Report

Until recently, students who needed to use specialized software programs —like the Adobe apps for design classes, CAD for engineering or SDSS for statistics — could do so only on campus computers, a big limitation because the facilities close at 9 or 10 p.m. So the school used $1.6

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Via Inside Higher Ed : “The Department of Education has placed restrictions on access to federal student aid for West Virginia public universities after the state was late submitting required annual financial statements for the third year in a row. “ Is higher ed creating the next dropout factories? .” $100,000.