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Preparing Students for Future Careers with Soft Skills Training on Financial Decisions

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Hypothetical Small Businesses: From Idea to Execution Imagine a classroom buzzing with entrepreneurial energy where students develop and execute small business ideas. After they brainstorm business ideas, guide them to create business plans and simulate the launch of their small enterprises.

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Pell Grants for Short-Term Programs Would Help Students at My Community College

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House of Representatives Committee on Small Business Subcommittee on Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Workforce Development. At the end of March, I had the honor of representing the Community College of Aurora and providing testimony before the U.S.

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Why College Matters for a Successful Career in Tech

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Technology is one of the areas where self-education, or autodidacticism, can bring outstanding results and allow an individual to achieve professional success without holding official certifications to prove his knowledge and skills. Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-18 technology for 30 years.

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Facebook Seems to Be Adding Video-Course Features. For Edtech, That Raises Old Fears.

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Meta has said that it won’t collect fees on paid event transactions through 2023 to help small businesses recover from the pandemic. A “Facebook Classes Instructor” group shows roughly 3,100 people signed up to trial the program. For now, Meta isn’t taking a cut of live events.

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Child Care Providers Deserve More Than Thanks. They Need Action.

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While some of these providers, known as family child care providers, hold child care licenses and operate as small businesses, the vast majority are family members and neighbors who offer care to support members of their community. million children ages 0-5 in a home setting. Think: a child’s aunt or retired grandmother.

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With No Federal Solution in Sight, States Step Up to Improve Pay for Child Care Workers

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Pandemic relief funding helped assuage some of the burden on the field, allowing child care programs—which, in many cases, are privately operated small businesses—to remain open, and giving providers a little extra money with which to boost the pay of its staff. That goes for policymakers, too. But it was no panacea.

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Beyond the Pink: A STEM Gift Guide for Girls

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Toys and games in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) are marketed to boys. We encourage you to support the small businesses and STEM institutions in your community. You can find free resources from organizations that support girls in technology. Break down barriers with building toys.

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