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School Change is a Collaborative Effort

Battelle for Kids

Last month, I attended the Panasonic Foundation Leadership Associates Program in New Orleans and was delighted to see the dedication to 21st century learning being demonstrated by the attending school districts.

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‘The reckoning is here’: More than a third of community college students have vanished

The Hechinger Report

For reasons like this, community colleges continue to lose prospective students to for-profit institutions, despite the fact that for-profits often have worse labor outcomes that can include lower job placement rates and postgraduate earnings and higher costs that lead to more debt.

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Colleges partnered with an EV battery factory to train students and ignite the economy. Trump’s clean energy war complicates their plans

The Hechinger Report

The students recruited for the opportunity by Panasonic were participants in an eight-week apprenticeship course that involves classes at the community college and on-the-job training. Panasonic also paid for the students tuition, as well as the instructors salary. ” Related: Become a lifelong learner.