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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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Want a stronger workforce? Make reading initiatives multigenerational

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NAEP long-term trends data also show that average scores for 13-year-old students in 2022 declined 4 points in reading from the previous assessment report in 2020. These workers will need stronger literacy skills to train for more advanced positions and to read instructions and guides for the technology they will manage.

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Unlocking the Power of Creativity and AI: Preparing Students for the Future Workforce

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Many standards and curricula don’t call out creativity explicitly, and teachers aren’t often trained on how to teach and assess creative thinking. Johnson: If we want to ensure equitable access, I want to really hammer home the point that teachers need training. Training a couple of times a year during these PD days is not enough.

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How can we close the digital divide?

The Hechinger Report

Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Future of Learning newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes every other Wednesday with trends and top stories about education innovation. Subscribe today!

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What It Takes to Recruit Future Teachers During the Pandemic

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These circumstances are squeezing the university programs that train future teachers. Our sense from our members is that this has exacerbated the trend we had already been seeing of declining student interest in going into teaching,” says Jacqueline E. Here’s how colleges are adapting to find and train the teachers of tomorrow.

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Smoothing the path for immigrants to finish their college degrees

The Hechinger Report

Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Higher Education newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes every other Thursday with trends and top stories about higher education. I’ve been here 25 years and I’ve met engineers that are Uber drivers,” he said.

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Federal Government Launches First-of-Its-Kind Center for Early Childhood Workforce

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Chrishana Lloyd, a research scholar at Child Trends, will be heading up the ECE Workforce Center’s research efforts. The outcomes were the result of many years of effort, advocacy and coalition building, Lloyd notes. They leave for K-12 or other educational systems that will pay them a fair wage and provide benefits.”

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