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What if we hired for skills, not degrees?

The Hechinger Report

One day, a friend forwarded an email about Resilient Coders, a boot camp that trains people of color for web development and software engineering jobs. In surveying broader groups of occupations, Burning Glass found a credentials gap of 26 percent for management jobs, 21 percent for computer and math jobs and 13 percent for sales jobs.

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Is the new education reform hiding in plain sight?

The Hechinger Report

Smart tools like lesson software that adjusts to students’ responses (and automatically provides more practice when they stumble) can enable increasingly specific levels of independence. Software can also integrate student data into teacher programs to help them track progress in ways unthinkable several years ago.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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a blockbuster case whose outcome will affect whether transgender students can use the school bathroom that aligns with their gender identity. Its outcome will have ramifications in schools throughout the country.” ” “A Conveyor Belt of Dropouts and Debt at For-Profit Colleges ” by Susan Dynarski.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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The Flatiron School has released its latest “outcomes report.” “ Is higher ed creating the next dropout factories? Via Honi Soit : “University abandons Cadmus anti-cheating software.” The software would have registered students’ locations when using the app to write essays. ”).

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

In our community’s next webinar, the Joan Ganz Cooney Center will share the results from Learning at Home: Families’ Educational Media Use in America, a report from a national survey of over 1500 parents of children ages 2-10. The NEA shared this article that discusses nation-wide efforts to re-engage high school dropouts.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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Task Force Seeks Comment on Higher-Ed Outcomes Reporting Standards.” I wonder how many schools and districts that use the software have done this? ” Via Ed Week’s Market Brief : “Wave of New Ed Tech In K–12 to Usher In Classroom Redesigns , Survey Finds.” ” Fox.

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Federal relief money boosted community colleges, but now it’s going away

The Hechinger Report

And they’ve bought equipment and services designed to improve academic outcomes. Raritan put a chunk of its relief money — about $250,000 — toward a new software package that helps students map their shortest pathway to a degree. based think tank New America, which has surveyed community college leaders throughout the pandemic.