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What happened when a South Carolina city embraced career education for all its students

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Whittenberg has been around since 2010, when Greenville County Schools opened it as a magnet school in an area that is historically low-income and majority Black. AJ the robot is the school mascot at A.J. In sixth grade, she enrolled at Fisher Middle School to continue robotics and STEM programs.

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The messy reality of personalized learning

The Hechinger Report

In 2010, Rhode Island won a four-year, $75 million grant from Race to the Top. The same was true at the affluent, predominantly white Barrington Middle School, which will soon move into a $68 million building fitted with a robotics lab. apps and software, with some classes much more tech-reliant than others.

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Trump has promised manufacturing jobs, but high school grads might want to seek credentialed “middle-skills” posts instead

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Those blue-collar jobs – at least as we remember them in our collective imagination – went to people, mostly men, fresh out of high school, graduate and dropout alike. The reality is that in recent years, 88 percent of job loss in manufacturing is due to gains in productivity , such as increased use of robots. During the recession, 5.6

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