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It’s Time to Reboot Our Thinking About Adult Learners in a Digitally Transformed World

Edsurge

In parallel, online education went mainstream as educational providers at all levels— including colleges and universities—were forced to experiment with remote learning, long a preferred vehicle for part-time students engaged in lifelong learning. As our longstanding structures and policies struggle, it’s time for a reboot.

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OPINION: Often overlooked vocational-tech schools provide great solutions to student debt, labor shortages

The Hechinger Report

But students aren’t the only ones who lose out from a one-size-fits-all high school approach. A startling 3 million skilled trades jobs will sit unfilled by 2028. Some districts mandate lottery admission processes — but voc-tech schools often prefer to review students’ disciplinary and attendance records before admitting them.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

I have set a Calendar reminder for 2028. Her readers poured through the Gates Foundation website and uncovered more examples of funding for experiments with the GSR bracelets. As with K-12 education, he believed (believes) that online education would provide the “disruptive innovation” to force traditional schooling out of business.

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