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8 Noncognitive Competencies for College and Career Readiness
Schools designed to cultivate noncognitive competencies are helping all students prepare for success in college, career and life.
Tech Training Opens Lucrative Alternative to 4 Year Degree for Millennials
Why we need more workers trained in the trades, the role of our schools in preparing students for careers and vocational training, and examples of innovative career centers providing technical training pathways.
Always Learning: College Now & Later
A generation ago you went to school until you were 21 and then worked until you were 65; now employability is all about lifelong learning — for the next job, during the next job, and learning to do what you love.
5 Options Allow GenDIY to Rethink College
Finish high school, go to college, graduate four or five years later and go to work--only it doesn’t work that way very often for Millennials. The GenDIY hack on higher education is a series of solutions that boosts affordability, flexibility, and employability.
Next Gen Higher Ed: Blended, Personalized & Competency-based
New highered options are bringing fast, flexible solutions for adults balancing work and family obligations just in time as young adult unemployment remains high, but thoughts of going back to school to finish up a degree still daunting.
When the Stars Align in Support of Learning…
By: Karla Phillips. A common K-12 and higher education reform effort where the stars can align? Competency-based learning.
Skilling Up Fast with Core Skills Mastery
According to founder David Goldberg, Core Skills Mastery delivers literacy, problem solving and work skills at levels better than the skills and dispositions of most college graduates.
Photoblog | Getting Smart at #iNACOL14 Day 2
Photos from Team Getting Smart at Day two iNACOL Blended and Online Learning Symposium (#iNACOL14), that brought together 2,500 experts and educational leaders.
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.
Next Gen Principal Prep: Blended, Personalized, Competency-based
It’s time to rethink leadership preparation in education. The linear model is obsolete, expensive, and time consuming. It’s time for new pathways and new partnerships that prepare leaders for the schools our young people deserve. New models of preparation must be about matching leadership to the next generation environment where they will serve.