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How To Make Real-World Use of Big Data

Michael J. Schroeck | Posted 04.04.2013 | Technology
Read More: Efficiency, Work Study, Social Media, Big Data, Smarter Ideas, Ibm, Analytics, Information Technology, Business, Customers, Real Time, Digitization, Bblog-Ibm-7, Video, Technology News
Michael J. Schroeck

Today, through the use of instrumentation, such as RFID technology, companies and individuals can monitor in real-time everything from the status of a bullet train racing across the countryside to hourly energy usage in their homes and even individual appliances.

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Citizen Schools Illinois -- The Struggles and Satisfactions in the Back of the Yards

Jake Oher | Posted 02.02.2013 | Chicago
Read More: Apprenticeships, Chicago Public Schools, Work Study, Citizens Schools, Chicago Schools, Chicago Education, Chicago News
Jake Oher

It was amazing to see my students engaged, taking information they had learned in their apprenticeship programs and applying it to real life examples. Because of this apprenticeship, some students now look at the world in a whole new way.

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Turning Schools Around

Michael J. Brennan | Posted 10.28.2012 | Detroit
Read More: Detroit Violence, Public Schools, Work Study, Detroit Schools, Detroit Education, Detroit Public Schools, Detroit High School, Dropout Factories, Public Education, Detroit Around Town, YouthVille Detroit, Urban Innovation Exchange, Model D Speaker Series Education, Education Speaker Series Detroit, Uix, Innovation in Education Detroit, Model D, Detroit Events, Uix Detroit, Innovation in Education Speaker Series, Detroit News
Michael J. Brennan

On a daily basis, our kids and therefore our schools face an onslaught of challenges stemming from the ravishing effects of poverty and the culture of violence in the neighborhoods around them.

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Bright Spots on the Educational Landscape

Michael Khoury | Posted 10.28.2012 | Detroit
Read More: Internships, Work Study, Detroit Education, Detroit Schools, Detroit Cristo Rey High School, Detroit Public Schools, Public School, Detroit Around Town, Detroit Charter Schools, Education Speaker Series Detroit, Uix, Urban Innovation Exchange, Detroit Events, Uix Detroit, Innovation in Education Speaker Series, Model D Speaker Series, Charter Schools Detroit, Model D, YouthVille Detroit, Detroit News
Michael Khoury

The state of education in Detroit continues to draw increasing attention, which is a good thing. However, the attention continues to focus on the negatives and the many positive solutions are relatively unnoticed.

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Working With Colleges to Find Financial Aid

Patrick O'Connor | Posted 04.14.2012 | Detroit
Read More: Work Study, Financial Aid, Fafsa, Student Loans, Applying for Financial Aid, College Admissions, Paying for College, College Financial Aid Advice, Financial Aid Advice, Detroit News
Patrick O'Connor

Many families assume their search for college cash ends when they file the FAFSA. That's really just the beginning -- here's what to know after you hit submit.

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Work-Study Is About Work and Study

Jamie Merisotis | Posted 11.19.2011 | College
Read More: Work-Study, Federal Work Study, Higher Education Reform, Education, Higher Education, College News
Jamie Merisotis

It is fair to say that the Federal Work-Study program is the Rodney Dangerfield of financial aid programs.

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Top 5 Jobs To Hold While You're In School

Unigo | Posted 05.25.2011 | College
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Consistently keeping a few extra Andrew Jacksons in your wallet will require some work on your behalf. And by work, we mean an actual paying job. Don'...

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Thousands Of Work-Study Jobs CUT

Posted 05.25.2011 | College
Read More: Work Study, How to Get a Work Study Job, Work Study Jobs, Work Study Job Cuts, Stimulus Money Work Study, College News

More than 160,000 federally funded work-study jobs will not exist this school year, according to U.S. News and World Report. A Department of Educatio...

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