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Adapting to the New Classroom

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The district faced challenges with dropouts and reduced graduation rates due to failed classes, school transfers, and absences due to weather and medical issues. All students receive assistive tech training to remove stigma and widen potential learning methods. Absent students can join classrooms through robotic telepresence.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

” There’s more news from the White House in the job training section below. The Business of Job Training. ” Just grand that Facebook is running a bunch of media literacy and digital training courses for community colleges. Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. “ Robots in the classroom ?

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Via ProPublica : “ For-Profit Schools Get State Dollars For Dropouts Who Rarely Drop In.” In the future, you might want to look for most MOOC-related news in the “business of job training” section below. ” The Business of Job Training. Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. ” by Nicholas Carr.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

” Via The New York Times , a profile on the Indiana charter chain Excel Schools : “A Chance for Dropouts, Young and Old, to Go Back to School.” The Business of Job Training. ” Via the Google blog : “Rolling Study Halls: turning bus time into learning time.” ” This is my shocked face. .”

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Inside Higher Ed on “The End of a Blogging Era at Harvard.” despite having Arizona ’s third-highest dropout rate.” The Business of Job Training. ” Via the Google blog : “ VR Labs open doors of opportunity for STEM students.” ” Robots and Other Education Science Fiction.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

So this, from the American Enterprise Institute , is completely unsurprising: “School-choice advocate Steve Jobs in 1995: ‘The unions are the worst thing that ever happened to education’ ” The Business of Job Training. “ Is higher ed creating the next dropout factories? ” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Meanwhile, the state has given initial approval for ECOT to become a “dropout school.” ” More on the new for-profit higher ed – coding bootcamps – in the job training section below. The Business of Job Training. From the Amazon blog : “Introducing Free Alexa Skills Courses by Codecademy.”