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The Gold Standard: The Swiss Vocational Education and Training System
How the Swiss vocational education and training system (VET) is creating a pipeline for young people to careers by personalizing learning with interests and talents at the core of training, and why it's working.
EdTech
A Solution to Higher Retention and Graduation, and Lower Student Debt is Simpler Than You Think
How changing majors and not choosing the right major for your career impacts retention, graduation and student debt, and potential platform solutions to support in pathway selection.
Personalized Learning
Let’s Persevere With College and Career Ready
By: JoEllen Lynch. I get frustrated sometimes that we refuse to commit resources to the adolescents we have and continue to fail in our systems. We need the people, tools and models to get all students work and college ready.
Personalized Learning
The Hour of Code – Join the Movement
We live in a computer powered world. Coding is the language our computers speak. As an educator or a parent, have you ever introduced students to coding?
Leadership
Real Learning for Real Life
Washington State leaders will gather in Seattle on Tuesday and in Spokane on Wednesday to consider the implications of these two historic shifts occurring simultaneously. Hosted by Partnership for Learning and Washington Roundtable, the convening will explore the skills gap, new standards, and next-generation learning environments.
Personalized Learning
Mozilla Open Badges to Show Career Readiness
Professional Examination Service has issued a white paper, Digital "Badges" Emerge as Part of Credentialing Future, examining the history of how digital badges have been "used to represent accomplishments, skills or knowledge" and how that will evolve in the near future.
Leadership
Best Practices in Work-Based Learning
GPS is a respected applied high school alternative for students in 42 high schools in southern Wisconsin. Twelve teachers currently support 13 GPS classrooms, three more classrooms will be added next month. Growth has been steady as have been program enhancements.
Leadership
Boosting Employability
In the US and Africa- 40% of recent grads are unemployed. So, who owns the problem? Is it a government problem, a higher ed problem, a consumer problem, or an employer problem?
Personalized Learning
Career Path High: Career & College Ready Flex
Career Path High is an interesting applied extension of Utah's Early College High School Initiative and may help create a new tradition of blending high school and college, blending online and onsite learning, and blending school and work-based learning.
EdTech
Supporting Learners Cradle to Career
Chad Wick, CEO, KnowledgeWorks says that we need to be developing ways to support learners in every segment of their lives, from "cradle to career."