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PROOF POINTS: Most manufacturing certificate holders don’t get jobs in manufacturing

The Hechinger Report

Credit: Oliver Parini for The Hechinger Report. Professional training programs have exploded over the last dozen years. These short courses last from as little as a few weeks to as long as a year and don’t confer a traditional college degree but, instead, end with a certificate. They’re like the Wild West of education.

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Leadership Ignited

A Principal's Reflections

I have tweeted over the past couple weeks my excitement for the new structure of the NASSP Annual Conference. The result is that attendees will return home with action plans of interconnected ideas, rather than the scattered array of stand-alone ideas and initiatives that typify some conferences. Use of time.

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A battle at one university is a case study in why higher education is so slow to change

The Hechinger Report

Credit: Steven Vargo for The Hechinger Report. The stakes have gotten higher now that Utah legislators are tying millions of dollars in funding for UVU the state’s other public higher education institutions to meeting goals including raising graduation rates and the number of degrees conferred. Corporations are different.

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OPINION: The low-cost steps the government could take right now to ease hunger and homelessness on college campuses

The Hechinger Report

This office, which would be led by a director of basic needs, would report directly to the undersecretary of education, who has the primary responsibility for higher education policy at the department. We know from exhaustive research that hunger seriously impairs learning outcomes and that financial insecurity drives dropout rates.

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When using data to predict outcomes, consider the ethical dilemmas, new report urges

The Hechinger Report

Colleges and universities that use sophisticated data systems to analyze and guide students must be careful to avoid ethical dilemmas that can arise, like pigeonholing students unfairly or underestimating their abilities, according to a new report that analyzed common pitfalls of these systems. based think tank. Really, it’s misnamed.”.

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The Lone Ranger Rides Again at ASU+GSV

Edsurge

The ASU+GSV conference in San Diego—where more than 4,000 people gathered this month from the education, edtech, publishing, venture capital and private equity sectors—is a hard conference to describe to typical education professionals, or to teachers who are on strike in states across the country. The atmosphere is festive.

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In Puerto Rico, the odds are against high school grads who want to go to college

The Hechinger Report

Rivera Pichardo for The Hechinger Report. Rivera Pichardo for The Hechinger Report. Of those who do enroll at universities on the island, fewer than half earn degrees, even after six years , the advocacy group Excelencia in Education reports, compared to more than 58 percent of college students nationwide.

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