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The Education Department is assuring schools and students that its financial aid process is under control, after a botched overhaul over the past year that some colleges say has dented incoming classes. Education Secretary Miguel Cardona has vowed that the FAFSA process is being improved after recent missteps. I want to close up [the] Department of Education, move education back to the states. In May, Cardona announced a “full-scale review” of the Federal Student Aid office that oversees FAFSA and promised “transformational changes” at the division. I’ve taken a college and career readiness class from my high school, but it all sounded really confusing,” she said.

Persons: Miguel Cardona, he’s, We’ve, miguel cardona, “ We’ve, ” Cardona, ”, Peter G ., NAICU, couldn’t, ” Mark Becker, Donald Trump, disburses Pell, ” Trump, Elon, Cardona, “ We’re, they’re, ” “, falloff, Beth Maglione, Hanalise Yarbrough, Kristi Childs, Kristi Childs Kristi Childs, Childs, Mason Yarbrough, “, ” Childs, Hanalise, John Jay, she’s “, I’ve, who’s “ Organizations: Department, Education, Federal Student Aid, NBC News, National Association of Independent Colleges, Universities, Education Department, Association of Public, Grant Universities, Department of Education, Republican, Federal, Aid, College, Network, National Association of Student Financial, Madison, Northwest Mississippi Community College, John, John Jay College of Criminal Locations: U.S, DeSoto County , Mississippi, New York City

NEW YORK (AP) — The National 4-H Council is growing in a new direction – online – by launching its e-learning platform Clover with a collaboration with Netflix and its new movie “Spy Kids: Armageddon,” the organization announced Wednesday. The innovation, Bramble says, comes in the way the Clover platform engages with the students by using gamification and entertainment, which led to the collaboration with Netflix. “When you think of the intent behind ‘Spy Kids,’ those kids are tackling some of the world’s most pressing issues and they’re doing this through coding and gamification. “We feel that Clover can support a way to catch up, but it can’t do it alone. It’s so valuable to have an in-person program that goes along with it -- the mentoring aspect that comes with 4-H.

Persons: Jill Bramble, ” Bramble, ”, Bramble, Bob Hughes, Melinda Gates Foundation’s, ” Hughes, “, Clover Organizations: Netflix, H, Associated Press, Melinda Gates Foundation’s United States Program, Lilly Endowment Inc, AP Locations: Manhattan , New York, Manhattan , Kansas

☆ High school shop class is back—and it's showing students alternatives to 'traditional college'
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-26 | by ( Rebecca Picciotto | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

Thirty years ago, high school shop class seemed on track for extinction. And during the 2016-2017 school year, 98% of public school districts offered CTE to high school students, though the types of programs varied widely, according to the Department of Education. Here are two key problems in the workforce that high school CTE seeks to address:Expensive college degreesCollege was the primary postgrad pathway modeled at Rosalyn Jones' high school in New Jersey. "Definitely in high school, they pushed college first like it's kind of the only option," says Jones, 25, who attended high school from 2012 to 2016. She says her high school offered a woodshop class as a course, but she says there was no CTE requirement.

Persons: Nolan Brunn, CTE, Rosalyn Jones, Jones, Tyler Sasse Organizations: Career Tech, National Center of Education Statistics, Association for Career, Department of Education, Corps, Job Corps, The, of Public, Grant Universities, Western Welding Academy Locations: New Jersey, Anoka , Minnesota, Brunn, Wyoming

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