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A ‘faster, cheaper’ career path
Young people need “faster, cheaper” career paths, starting in high school, writes Bruno V. Manno on Education Next. Here provides examples from the district, charter, and private school sectors. A...
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Ohio: No job skills needed to be ‘career ready’
Ohio will put a career readiness seal on the diplomas of graduates who’ve mastered skills such as teamwork and creativity, reports Catherine Gewertz in Education Week. Taking career-tech courses or...
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‘Career-ready’ at 18? It’s a myth
In the 21st century, the “career-ready” 18-year-old high school graduate is a myth, write Anthony P. Carnevale, who directs the Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce, and...
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Career diplomas catch on in Louisiana
More than one in five Louisiana high school graduates now earns a career diploma, up from 2 percent in 2013, reports Will Sentell in The Advocate. The state’s goal is to raise that to 40 percent of...
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High hopes
Eighty-five percent of U.S. 15-year-old students who took the most recent PISA examination say that they expect to have a highly-skilled occupation when they join the workforce,” reports Jennifer Craw...
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College isn’t going to work, so what next?
Going from high school to a four-year college can be a costly mistake for unmotivated students, write Michael Horn and Bob Moesta, authors of Choosing College: How to Make Better Learning Decisions...
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Ohio: No job skills needed to be ‘career ready’
Ohio will put a career readiness seal on the diplomas of graduates who’ve mastered skills such as teamwork and creativity, reports Catherine Gewertz in Education Week. Taking career-tech courses or...
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‘Career-ready’ at 18? It’s a myth
In the 21st century, the “career-ready” 18-year-old high school graduate is a myth, write Anthony P. Carnevale, who directs the Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce, and...
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Who’s college ready? Let’s find out
States vow to graduate students who are college- and career-ready but have no idea if they’re succeeding, writes Checker Finn. The National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) should test...
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A 5th year for the unprepared?
Photo: Suleman Mukhtar/Pexels “Rather than pushing young people into a collapsing labor market,” high schools should encourage poorly prepared students to defer graduation and stay for a fifth year of...
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Teaching shop class without a shop
Career-tech teachers are figuring out how to teach hands-on skills virtually, writes Emily Richmond, the public editor for Education Writers Association, in The Atlantic. As they say, necessity is the...
View Article‘Bridge year’ helps grads get to college, careers
A free program called Next Level NOLA is offering New Orleans students a bridge to college and careers, writes Beth Hawkins on The 74. Graduates of the city’s high-poverty high schools are getting into...
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Who needs 12th grade?
Who needs 12th grade? asks Kalman R. Hettleman, a former member of the Baltimore school board. Why not eliminate senior year — and maybe junior year too — for students who already meet college- and...
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Who’s college ready? Let’s find out
States vow to graduate students who are college- and career-ready but have no idea if they’re succeeding, writes Checker Finn. The National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) should test...
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What should high schools require?
What standards should students meet to graduate from high school? asks a “wonkathon” on Fordham’s Flypaper site. I think high schools should reduce requirements to a bare minimum, perhaps eighth-grade...
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‘Career-ready’ at 18? It’s a myth
In the 21st century, the “career-ready” 18-year-old high school graduate is a myth, write Anthony P. Carnevale, who directs the Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce, and...
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Ohio: No job skills needed to be ‘career ready’
Ohio will put a career readiness seal on the diplomas of graduates who’ve mastered skills such as teamwork and creativity, reports Catherine Gewertz in Education Week. Taking career-tech courses or...
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Liberal arts colleges add career credentials
Sacred Heart University’s Advanced Craft Beverage Brewing class at Two Roads Brewery in Stratford, Connecticut. Credit: Yunuen Bonaparte/Hechinger Report Mills College, a small, well-regarded women’s...
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Failure to launch: Career ladder is broken
Young people from low-income families are the most likely to remain in remote learning, to fail their online classes and — if they earned a diploma in 2020 — to have traded their college dreams for a...
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Biden: We need 16 years of public education
“We need 16 years of public education guaranteed in this country from preschool for three- and four-year-olds at the early end, to two years of community college after high school,” President Biden...
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