High schools focus on students’ life success

by Karen Everett Watson, Galt Herald Online

Students will have a number of options for credit recovery and be able to take remedial classes to bring up their math and reading scores. “Both high schools will have a computer lab with a teacher/mentor,” said Kaufman. “Students will be able to take online classes and campus classes. The online classes will be accessible in the labs and from the students’ homes.” College-level course work will also be accessible in these labs so students can go into college having already earned credits, according to Kaufman. This will also allow students to take courses not readily available in most high schools.

http://galtheraldonline.com/articles/2016/08/18/news/doc57b6128bcf775065525693.txt

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5 Free Classes You Can Take to Build Your Resume

by Jill Krasny, Atlanta Journal Constitution

In pivotal ways, the job landscape has changed. The days of pensions are over, and hardly anyone receives a Rolex just for sticking around. Today’s businesses move fast, and employees are expected to know how to keep up. Fortunately, the World Wide Web has made it easy to bone up on skills that matter in today’s workforce. Whether you’re looking to debunk big data or bolster your email writing, we’ve rounded up some free online courses that promise to get the job done. To prove they’re worth your time, we tapped a couple of recruiters for insight. Read on to see our 10 favorite courses — all within budget.

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Stanford seeks the ‘why’ in the student experience

By Jarrett Carter, Education Dive

Stanford University pilots a new exhibit, ‘The @Stanford Project,’ which envisions a learning environment for undergraduate students learning, working, and serving to meet industrial and personal missions, rather than achieving proficiency in a major. The project challenges students to visualize the ways in which Stanford will evolve in its research, workforce development and philanthropic support, with the influences of technology and encouraging students to follow personal missions instead of professional objectives. Helping students to visualize missions early in their academic careers could spur new outcomes in international study and recruitment, startup innovation, and community outreach — all important elements of the 21st century college profile.

http://www.educationdive.com/news/stanford-seeks-the-why-in-the-student-experience/424419/

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The Big Opportunity in Data Analytics

by Education Dive

If knowledge is power, as Francis Bacon suggested, its supporting partner would undoubtedly be information. The kind of information that, in today’s world, can connect complex reams of disparate and often isolated data, and can help support better decision making and better outcomes. This is the promise of data analytics and, with its ability to capture behavioral information and provide the ability to manage and act on that data, it’s becoming of increasing interest to the world of education. With proven value in the fields of finance, research and in a thousand online applications, what might a marriage of analysis and academia look like? And what are the opportunities for colleges and universities to use data to secure better outcomes for students and further empower faculty?

http://www.educationdive.com/news/the-big-opportunity-in-data-analytics/424903/

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Virginia Tech requires online diversity course for incoming students

By Robby Korth, Roanoke.com

Before new Virginia Tech freshmen start classes next week they’ll be required to take an online course on diversity. New students now have to take a trio of online courses to raise awareness of issues that they may face in college, including alcohol, sexual violence and being inclusive of people from different races and backgrounds. “Providing it to new students is consistent with and reflects the value we place on inclusion and diversity at this university,” Tech spokesman Mark Owczarski wrote in an email. “Virginia Tech is proud to promote inclusion and diversity as an important part of our land grant mission.

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N.J. university chosen for pilot program studying online courses

by Kevin Shea, NJ.com

Thomas Edison State University has been chosen as one of eight universities nationwide for an experimental federal pilot program seeking to connect students using non-traditional training with federal financial aid. Thomas Edison’s role in the program will study how to use financial aid to cover the cost of alternative credit courses through Study.com, and ultimately help students complete their degrees. The pilot program is called Educational Quality through Innovation Partnerships, or, EQUIP and the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) and university unveiled it Tuesday.

http://www.nj.com/mercer/index.ssf/2016/08/nj_university_chosen_for_pilot_program_studying_on.html

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What are the top 10 most popular search engines?

by Christopher Ratcliff, ClickZ

You know, apart from the most obvious search engine. And possibly the second most obvious one too. In fact I’ll start again, what are the eight most popular search engines after Google and Bing? The first list below contains the most popular search engines currently available, ordered by most to least popular in the US. The ranking is according to eBiz, it’s in order of estimated unique monthly visitors and is accurate as of August 2016. The second list is a global overview of most popular search engines, according to Net Market Share, which is ranked in order of market share and is again accurate as of August 2016. As opposed to our previous list of search engine alternatives to Google, this list will concentrate purely on informational searches rather than say… Gifs or copyright free images.

https://www.clickz.com/what-are-the-top-10-most-popular-search-engines/104620/

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