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

The Hechinger Report

Now he’s training in a fast-track program to become an industrial maintenance technician. Orr recounts this with surprising good humor, early in the morning in a brightly lighted classroom at the Valencia College Center for Accelerated Training. The whole idea is to get you trained quickly and into a job.”. million in August.

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When Student Anxiety Gets in the Way of Attending School

Edsurge

Pandemic closures provided some students with a chance to notice how stressed they are at school, says Jayne Demsky, founder of School Avoidance Alliance, an advocacy group that provides professional training to schools. But a more common approach has been to ink contracts with telehealth companies.

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

The Hechinger Report

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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Teenagers on the Journey Toward Good Lives

Edsurge

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 What should teenagers do after high school?

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Are Schools Helpless, Hapless When it Comes to IT Privacy and Security?

Doug Levin

Instead, advocates have focused almost exclusively on the practices of companies serving education. And, even if school districts have enough qualified IT staff, they aren’t necessarily being provided with the training and/or ongoing support to stay current in what is a continuously evolving field. and compliance.

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A Tale of Two American Education Systems: An Edtech Investor’s Perspective

Edsurge

She attends a highly resourced school with computer science courses, well-trained teachers and one computing device per student. And it means funding companies and founders who are committed to closing the digital divide. Jennifer is in sixth grade. She has her own computer, educational software and high-speed internet.

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Smoothing the path for immigrants to finish their college degrees

The Hechinger Report

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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