Content by Caroline Preston

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How Colleges Can Help Students Out-Compete Robots
Caroline Preston
There’s a lot of anxiety out there about robots gobbling up our jobs. One oft-cited Oxford University study predicts that up to 47 percent of U.S. jobs are vulnerable to automation. Other research...
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Convincing Students That Manufacturing Job Skills Will Pay Off
Caroline Preston
The high school students clustered around a 4 ft-tall red robot with long arms and cartoonish eyes. A so-called collaborative robot, programmed to work with humans at Prent Corp., a...
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Are Apprenticeships the New On-Ramp to Good Jobs?
Caroline Preston
Editor’s note: This story is part of Map to the Middle Class, a Hechinger Report series looking at the good middle-class jobs of the future and how schools are preparing young people for them. The...