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Beer making for credit: Liberal arts colleges add career tech

The Hechinger Report

The strategy of adding career and technical education is being quietly rolled out by several traditional higher education institutions, including a growing number of liberal arts colleges that are responding to student and parent demands for a return on their tuition investment by adding practical training that has proven value to employers.

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The "Liberation of Education" Online Conference Starts Today - I'm Speaking Twice

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

I'll share some of the results of a survey of thousands of teachers to find their best advice for the rules and strategies to win at the game of school, and then will discuss what really winning at school means.

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Forget civics class: Students want to make a difference in real life

The Hechinger Report

In recent years, the group’s advocacy has led to changes in the district’s graduation requirements, to align them with admissions requirements for California’s university systems, and an expansion of funding for an after-school meal program that had been cut by the school board. “So Every year the group chooses an issue to focus on.

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Learning by Voting: Students Want the Right to Make a Difference in Real Life

MindShift

In recent years, the group’s advocacy has led to changes in the district’s graduation requirements, to align them with admissions requirements for California’s university systems, and an expansion of funding for an after-school meal program that had been cut by the school board. “So Every year the group chooses an issue to focus on.

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SXSWedu 2017: Ones to Watch and What to Know

Edsurge

Diverse by Design: Creating CS Programs for All : When working to diversity computer science programs, strategies often look to improve existing programs rather than designing better programs for all from the get-go. But the technology lends a question: to what extent should educational products make assumptions about a user’s end goal?

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Becoming an Anti-Racist Childhood Educator and Social Warrior

edWeb.net

At the heart of anti-racist early childhood education, she emphasized, is institutional critique combined with advocacy and transformation. Selecting appropriate learning materials, strategies, and content is essential. This edWeb broadcast was sponsored by Kaplan Early Learning Company. WATCH THE EDWEBINAR RECORDING.

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The Business of 'Ed-Tech Trends'

Hack Education

Tom Webster, the VP of strategy at the market research firm Edison Research, argued that the report should be viewed as “an extremely effective piece of content marketing,” pointing to the number of slides that cite data about or by a portfolio company of Meeker’s employer, the venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Smith Caulfield.

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