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Employer Credentials and Community Colleges: A Look Behind Google’s IT Support Certificate Program

Edsurge

These tech jobs cut across industry sectors and many of them can be characterized as “ middle-skill ”—those that require more education and training than a high school diploma, but less than a four-year college degree. As Google’s initiative demonstrates, it is a false dichotomy to pit industry-based credentials against academic learning.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

Again and again, the media told stories — wildly popular stories , apparently — about how technology industry executives refuse to allow their own children to use the very products they were selling to the rest of us. The implication, according to one NYT article : “the digital gap between rich and poor kids is not what we expected.”

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