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Impatient for workers, businesses help students take college shortcuts

The Hechinger Report

Many of his friends took the same shortcut to good jobs at companies including Sony and Lockheed Martin. It opened officially in April with a hearty endorsement from Connecticut Governor Ned Lamont, who praised it as a way to meet employer needs. Credit: Yunuen Bonaparte for The Hechinger Report.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

” Chalkbeat on vouchers in Indiana : “Choice for most: In nation’s largest voucher program, $16 million went to schools with anti-LGBT policies.” ” Via Recode : “ Google CEO Sundar Pichai canceled an all-hands meeting about gender controversy due to employee worries of online harassment.”

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'Robots Are Coming For Your Jobs'

Hack Education

” One week later, Flatiron School was acquired by WeWork , a company that runs co-working spaces, meet-ups, and now a private K–12 school to teach entrepreneurship – “the new economy” indeed. Sony’s in the business. Malta thinks it’s necessary, I guess. Pearson filed a patent for badges.