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eSports: The Growing Extra-Curricular Activity NOW!

The CoolCatTeacher

If you don’t have Google Docs, just use this PDF. Over the past 20 years, she has helped lead the CHSM team to state and national honors including a Crystal Star Award for Dropout Prevention Schools, Civic Advocacy Award, Promising Practice Award, and being named a National School of Character. Website: www.usd266.com/chsm

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Most Popular EdSurge Podcast Episodes of 2019

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You can find us on Apple Podcasts , Overcast , Spotify , Stitcher , Google Play Music or wherever you listen. High School Dropout. The title of Anthony Johnson’s book explains why he’s an unlikely educator: it’s called “High School Dropout to Teacher of the Year.” Meet Anthony Johnson: Teacher of the Year. Rebel ‘Mayor.’

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Beyond Bootcamps: How Employers Can Help Nontraditional Learners Succeed

Edsurge

Although everyone wants magic solutions that can transform high-school dropouts into Google engineers in six months, this rarely happens. Employers need to be willing to invest in this talent after they hire them—and to recognize that the companies might need to change the way they train managers and onboard teams.

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Millennials: The Straw That Will Stir Higher Education’s Next Disruption

EdNews Daily

Famous billionaire college dropouts like Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates, and the late Steve Jobs are prominent examples of successes who never completed undergraduate degrees. Although we may make much of college dropout successes, remember this: The biggest Internet Age success of all — Google — was started within a graduate program, as a Ph.D.

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As enrollment falls and colleges close, a surprising number of new ones are opening

The Hechinger Report

The Roux Institute opened last year in borrowed space in this tech company building on the Portland, Maine, waterfront to teach computer science and other subjects. Thanks to one-on-one counseling like this, the dropout rate is a third lower than at conventional universities and colleges, according to figures provided by the school.

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What if we hired for skills, not degrees?

The Hechinger Report

On a laptop in the nearly empty office, he worked on code for a webpage he was developing for his employer, the learning materials company Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. In half an hour, he needed to join a conference call about changes to the company’s website. He had been at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt for four months. in February 2019.

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Learning Technologies and Creativity in the Classroom

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Dropout rates increase, test and project scores dip, and – worst of all – learning becomes synonymous with boredom. For example, according to the business intelligence company DOMO, each minute there are an average of: 571 new websites created. 4 million Google searches. When students don’t feel engaged, their education suffers.