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Most Popular EdSurge Podcast Episodes of 2019

Edsurge

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.” Will the Edtech Industry Pay Attention? 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. When you’re new to an industry, it can be easy to take these experiences personally or feel like you’re alone in making mistakes.

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How young is too young to start introducing students to future careers?

The Hechinger Report

He recently visited a fourth-grade classroom and spoke with two boys who were looking at a Google satellite image of a neighborhood and designing a new development, with houses, trees and streets drawn onto their new map. “How can a kid aspire to a career if he doesn’t know it even exists?” Hidalgo said. This helps kids find their why.”.

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OPINION: Time for colleges to help solve the affordability issue

The Hechinger Report

Instead of waiting for the federal government to address the student debt crisis or better hold schools accountable for tuition rates, let’s turn to the industry itself to tackle these challenges. Employing this method with schools is the way to help higher education’s affordability issue. We can move more expeditiously.

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A Skills Gap From College to Career Doesn't Exist. It's the Awareness Gap We Need to Fix.

Edsurge

high-profile dropouts and the rise of the so-called “ anti-credential.” Twenty years ago, Google did not exist. Just imagine a next-generation course catalogue showing majors and courses, alongside the skills they should expect to attain and how those skills correspond to specific industries and jobs. At almost $1.3

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

The Hechinger Report

Demand for workers in solar is expected to nearly double by 2030, according to an industry census. The number of workers needed in the offshore wind energy industry will also nearly double, by 2025 , to 589,000, and increase to 868,000 by 2030, the consulting firm Rystad Energy estimates.

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A Thinking Person’s Guide to EdTech News (2017 Week 9 Edition)

Doug Levin

A Checklist for Accountability in the Industry Behind Government Hacking | The Citizen Lab → Suggestions from Citizen Lab on how best to confront the lack of accountability in the commercial spyware trade.

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