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OPINION: Why we must invest in new, innovative workforce training to fill a skills gap

The Hechinger Report

Recent history reminds us that the only way we can build a stronger, more resilient society is by investing in meaningful workforce training and good-paying jobs in the rapidly growing information technology field. Build company-specific programs that focus on recruiting and/or customized training.

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HE Challenges: Fast changing digital teaching methods

Neo LMS

.” When, or if, this doomsday scenario arises for higher education, it will be a combination of the challenges we have examined thus far – costs of “campus-based” education, failing revenue streams, and expensive dropouts. It seems that technical training is less relevant here than e-learning course design.

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Facing a white-collar worker shortage, American companies seek a blue-collar solution

The Hechinger Report

The dean’s list student ended up a college dropout, a gay 20-something cut off from his parents after coming out, and working at a UPS Store in a job he described as “retail drudgery” while running up credit card debt and stringing out his college loans. While being paid to train is hardly a new idea, it can solve a lot of problems.

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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. It hurts employers, too, Fuller and his Harvard colleague, researcher Manjari Raman, found in their report. workforce that does not have a four-year college degree.”

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Kids are failing algebra. The solution? Slow down.

The Hechinger Report

At the beginning of 2021, The Hechinger Report’s members (individual readers who donated money to our nonprofit news organization) asked us if we would report on the best practices for helping the nation’s public school system recover from the pandemic. So teachers have been learning new software platforms on the go.

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DEBT WITHOUT DEGREE: The human cost of college debt that becomes “purgatory”

The Hechinger Report

Photo: Meredith Kolodner/The Hechinger Report. Students who withdraw are also much more likely to default on their loans; dropouts make up two-thirds of defaults nationwide. The number of dropouts with federal loans at these institutions has grown from 35,443 in 2007-09 to more than 56,600 in 2013-15. [But]

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Is the new education reform hiding in plain sight?

The Hechinger Report

Photo: Laura Pappano for The Hechinger Report. Photo: Laura Pappano for The Hechinger Report. Photo: Laura Pappano for 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.