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Why More Schools are Embracing Career and Technical Education

CTE Learning

As school choice gains traction across the United States, an increasing number of parents are exploring educational options that extend beyond the traditional public school system. Career and technical education, when done right, is highly multidisciplinary.

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What If We Measured Learning Through Skills Gained, Not Time Spent in the Classroom?

ED Surge

For more than 100 years, high schools and colleges have relied on the same stalwart tool to measure teaching and learning: the clock. Now, the institution that developed the time-based standard more than a century ago that is used throughout education is calling for the creation of a different way to quantify academic progress.

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If We Listen, Students Will Lead Education Research and Development

ED Surge

Student disengagement in writing at the secondary level is a pervasive challenge school districts face nationwide. Skeggs expressed her pride and gratitude, “To have the privilege of being the teacher while the student interns engaged in Inclusive Innovation was truly the honor of my career.

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Inventing a Job-Skills Machine

ED Surge

His name is Michael Bettersworth, and he’s a vice chancellor and chief innovation officer at Texas State Technical College. The free tool, called SkillsEngine , contains a large digital library of skills—more than 20,000 of them—needed for all the jobs you can think of—and, importantly, for occupations that don’t even exist yet.

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A Nonprofit Spent Five Years Counting a Million Credentials. What Does It All Add Up To?

ED Surge

And for the past five years, some observers have scratched their heads about this enumeration endeavor and asked … why? More than two dozen states now partner with Credential Engine, using the Credential Transparency Description Language it developed to assemble, sort through and better understand their education and workforce data.

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This Program Is Empowering the Next Generation of Computational Thinkers

ED Surge

In 2015, the Hong Kong Jockey Club Charities Trust set out to develop a computational thinking (CT) and coding education initiative of world-class standard, based on up-to-date teaching tools and proven pedagogy. Since that time, CoolThink@JC has won multiple awards and gained recognition on the international education stage.

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Should universities use differential treatment to admit students?

Futurum

The idea that exam results should be assessed differently based on a student’s socio-economic background is known as differential treatment, and Emil is investigating whether such policies can improve equality and efficiency in education and labour markets. Why is differential treatment important?

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