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Edtech, Equity, and Innovation: A Critical Look in the Mirror

Digital Promise

In our current education system, we continue to see gaps in graduation rates and unequal access to high-quality public schools. When schools persistently graduate less than half of their students of color and students with disabilities, we call those schools dropout factories.

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Bring Experts to Your Class Easily with Nepris

Ask a Tech Teacher

Statistically, almost half of school dropouts do so because they don’t see the relevance. Teachers have long-known the positive effect industry experts have on students, but the complications of finding the speaker, arranging the event, and preparing the class have made this a daunting task. Click to view slideshow.

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Facing a white-collar worker shortage, American companies seek a blue-collar solution

The Hechinger Report

The dean’s list student ended up a college dropout, a gay 20-something cut off from his parents after coming out, and working at a UPS Store in a job he described as “retail drudgery” while running up credit card debt and stringing out his college loans. It turned out instead to be a bump in the road.

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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. When you’re new to an industry, it can be easy to take these experiences personally or feel like you’re alone in making mistakes. Usually, when new hires succeed, so does the company.

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

The Hechinger Report

Initiatives like these will help us boost skills-training efforts across the country and could help raise the profile of lesser-known, critical and in-demand jobs in the IT industry. We need to ensure we’re continuing to expose more Americans to the jobs, opportunities and resources that will help modernize our country’s IT systems.

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PBS to Present “Spotlight Education,” A Special Week of Programming Featuring Reports About America’s Students and New Models of Learning, September 12-17

EdNews Daily

The “Teach Boldly” teacher support initiative will include a series of virtual and community training events and the launch of the new PBS Teachers’ Lounge, a creative digital space where teachers can share ideas, learn from peers, find daily inspiration and access the tools and resources they need to enhance their work in the classroom.

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A battle at one university is a case study in why higher education is so slow to change

The Hechinger Report

As for graduation rates that weren’t increasing, and dropout rates that didn’t decline, she said, “you have to ask why.”. If by ‘corporate’ you mean hardworking, results-oriented, accountable about resources,” Tuminez said, “then ‘corporate’ is a great word.”. Tuminez paused. “So So that’s what I mean by accountability.”.