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But the studies differ in their approaches to analyzing the myriad options. “If you’re a 17-year-old or 25-year-old or returning veteran who wants to go into the IT field in Indianapolis, there had not been a way until we began doing our work to let that person understand the relative differences between pathways,” Cheney says.
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Studies have shown that the gap between what high- and low-income families spend on education enrichment has tripled in the last 40 years. Connecting all these activities are digitalbadges. Designed by the Mozilla Foundation, open digitalbadges are a new form of credentialing for the digital age.
Studies have shown that the gap between what high- and low-income families spend on education enrichment has tripled in the last 40 years. Connecting all these activities are digitalbadges. Designed by the Mozilla Foundation, open digitalbadges are a new form of credentialing for the digital age.
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