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Move over 401(k)s — this new perk is helping millennials pay off college loans

The Hechinger Report

College loan repayment benefits like that are available to only a small proportion of American workers — about 3 percent, according to the Society for Human Resource Management. Its clients include Fidelity and Chegg. Now she works as an e-marketing assistant at Powertex, a company that produces apparel and merchandise.

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5 Ed-Tech Ideas Face The Chronicle’s Version of ‘Shark Tank’

Wired Campus

They’re guided in that process with a coach who’s there to keep them accountable, connect them to resources and mentors as they go through that process so they’re aware of their own development. Today’s professors can utilize a wide range of different resources to put out information for their course. Young: Just on time, thank you.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

“To Save Students Money, Colleges May Force a Switch to E-Textbooks,” The Chronicle of Higher Education reported in 2010. The story examined a proposed practice: “Colleges require students to pay a course-materials fee, which would be used to buy e-books for all of them (whatever text the professor recommends, just as in the old model).”

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