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A handful of colleges are finally providing training in a way consumers want it: fast

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Now he’s training in a fast-track program to become an industrial maintenance technician. Credit: Tina Russell for The Hechinger Report. Orr recounts this with surprising good humor, early in the morning in a brightly lighted classroom at the Valencia College Center for Accelerated Training. Even if they weren’t forced to, 4.2

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Surveys Find Districts Are Using More Edtech Tools — and Teachers Are Bearing the Costs

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All in this Edtech Reports Recap. A new survey on corporate skills training forecasts that a lot more companies will try doing it using virtual reality environments in the next two years. Source: Mursion and Future Workforce: “ VR Changes the Game for Soft Skills Training ” Of course, money talks. Why the appeal?

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Smoothing the path for immigrants to finish their college degrees

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He recalls finding (and paying a considerable amount for) an outside company that could convert his transcripts into something more comparable to the U.S. He hopes it will help many highly trained or qualified people who are underemployed because they believe their English isn’t good enough to earn a college degree. education system.

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‘A second prison’: People face hidden dead ends when they pursue a range of careers post-incarceration

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For Wiese, it was all a big, expensive gamble — and, in one form or another, is one millions of people with criminal records take every year as they pursue education and workforce training on their way to jobs that require a license. That means some people are inadvertently steered toward training programs that, for them, are dead ends.

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Disabilities in math affect many students — but get little attention

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Credit: Lillian Mongeau for The Hechinger Report That’s slowly changing — for some disabilities. A majority of states have passed laws that mandate screening early elementary students for the most common reading disability, dyslexia, and countless districts train teachers how to recognize and teach struggling readers. 17 at 8 p.m.

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Teenagers on the Journey Toward Good Lives

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With rising college tuition expenses and overwhelming student loan debt, there’s a debate underway about whether college or job training is the right path for young people who face financial barriers and other challenges. He also continues to work part-time at a logistics company. “I Dino reports. I love it so far!”

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OPINION: Studying humanities can prepare the next generation of social justice leaders

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That must change now that the field has been given a tremendous opportunity: training our next generation of social justice leaders. Caroline Condren, a 2013 English BA recipient from Colorado College, works as a senior development and communications manager at a documentary film company that melds content production and social advocacy.

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