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Gift for grads: Digital clean-up service
Looking cool — or stupid? Getting ready for college now means cleaning up your online image, writes Taylor Lorenz on Mashable. Many high...
Joanne Jacobs
Jun 18, 20171 min read
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P-TECH grows, but is it working?
IBM is scaling up the wildly popular P-TECH model,reports Jenny Abamu on EdSurge. But the original Brooklyn school is struggling to raise...
Joanne Jacobs
Jun 16, 20172 min read
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Job market is strong for ’17 college grads
A new survey shows 74 percent of employers plan to hire recent college graduates this year, up from 67 percent last year. Thirty-nine...
Joanne Jacobs
Jun 11, 20171 min read
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Most teens say ‘no’ to summer jobs
Most teenagers won’t be working this summer, reports Ben Steverman onBloomberg News. The summer job has gone from rite of passage to...
Joanne Jacobs
Jun 10, 20171 min read
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Where are the college men?
Fewer men are choosing college, reports Monte Whaley in the Denver Post. In 2015, 61.2 percent of Colorado’s female high school graduates...
Joanne Jacobs
Jun 8, 20172 min read
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When a can-do town can’t find middle-class jobs
Amy Goldstein’s Janesville, the story of a Wisconsin town that lost its General Motors factory, isn’t just “decline porn,” writes J.D....
Joanne Jacobs
May 30, 20171 min read
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Career-tech becomes college prep, mostly white
Rigorous career-tech programs such as New Jersey’s Marine Academy of Science and Technology (MAST) prepare students for top colleges and...
Joanne Jacobs
May 30, 20172 min read
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Teacher: Workforce prep isn’t my job
When Ohio Gov. John Kasich proposed requiring teachers to serve an “externship” at a business to renew their teacher’s licenses, there...
Joanne Jacobs
May 19, 20172 min read
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What happens to anthro majors?
College graduates earn about $600,000 more over their lifetimes than workers with only a high school education, reports the Hamilton...
Joanne Jacobs
May 16, 20171 min read
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Who needs a degree?
The future of college may not include going to class or earning a degree, writes AP’s Maria Danilova. “Education startups are offering...
Joanne Jacobs
May 2, 20172 min read
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Chicago mayor: No diploma without a plan
Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel wants to add a new graduation requirement for public school students, reports the Chicago Tribune. By 2020,...
Joanne Jacobs
Apr 6, 20171 min read
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Israel’s education secret: It’s not the schools
Israel is a global leader in technology, despite its small size, writes Naftali Bennett, a former high-tech CEO and now Minister of...
Joanne Jacobs
Apr 2, 20172 min read
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Training to manage the machines
Manufacturers are working with Michigan community colleges to redesign career technical education, reports Emily DeRuy in The Atlantic....
Joanne Jacobs
Mar 23, 20171 min read
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More math, more money
“When states raise the number of math classes they require students to take in high school,” black students take more math and go on to...
Joanne Jacobs
Feb 7, 20171 min read
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Majors matter
“Deciding your major plays a bigger role in determining your career earnings than does where you go to school or even deciding whether or...
Joanne Jacobs
Feb 6, 20171 min read
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Who will work? Education, automation and jobs
Robots — artificial intelligence technology — will take up to 47 percent of U.S. jobs in the next few decades, predicts a White House...
Joanne Jacobs
Feb 6, 20172 min read
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Moving on up
From the Equality of Opportunity Project. With less ambitious criteria — colleges where most bottom-fifth students reached the upper...
Joanne Jacobs
Jan 24, 20171 min read
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College ‘degree premium’ goes flat
Is a college degree the new high school diploma? asks Jeffrey Selingo in the Washington Post. The “degree premium” — the earnings gap...
Joanne Jacobs
Jan 24, 20172 min read
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Tell the truth about college readiness
“Sam” earned mostly B’s at Average High. Is he/she/they prepared to pass college classes? Maybe, if the B’s were for achievement rather...
Joanne Jacobs
Jan 19, 20172 min read
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Include working-class whites in ed reform
By framing education as the “civil rights issue of our time” and focusing on the racial achievement gap, reformers “tacitly made...
Joanne Jacobs
Jan 2, 20171 min read
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