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Building a Green Tech Community

Feb 5, 2014 | e-business

Digipreneurship University develops curriculum to effectively create socially-conscious entrepreneurs that motivate, inspire, and educate a new generation of thought leaders and small business owners. To accomplish our goal we create 21st century education programs and innovative platforms to leverage digital media for education technology advancement.

For the past decade we have donated over one thousand hours in community service, providing training workshops to over 100 staff and volunteers of various companies throughout the U.S. Technology firms like Vaskro International (New York City), Transtech International (Ghana, Africa), and the Blacksonville Community Network (Florida) have leveraged the Digipreneur Curriculum to train area executives from both the private and public sector in effective use of new media, an entrepreneurial mindset, and broadband adoption. These strategic partnerships were critical to measure the success of our training methods and now social entrepreneurs worldwide strive to combine Digipreneur best practices to develop new talent and guide community engagement to meet the increasing demands for access to urban broadband and careers in new digital media.

Our partner effort is focused on delivery of economically-viable programs in education, media and technology to under-served communities. We carry out this social responsibility to help spur local economic growth with an intense train-the-trainer, peer-to-peer, “green tech” certification program to prepare digital connectors for higher wage employment. We believe the vitality of local community anchor institutions and small businesses is critical to a thriving community and sustaining healthy business relationship.

Recently, we have customized “after school” programs to adopt STEM curricula that focus on training and employment of teen entrepreneurs for new job preparation. We are confident our fast track training and vocational program will equip students and educators with the vital skill sets to become digital ambassadors and responsible digital citizens of their communities.

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U.S. Students Still Lag Behind Foreign Peers

Jan 6, 2014 | Digital Literacy Curriculum

U.S. students aren’t progressing to catch up to their peers in other industrialized countries.

A report recently published by Harvard University’s Program on Education Policy and Governance found that students in Latvia, Chile and Brazil are making gains in academics three times faster than American students, while those in Portugal, Hong Kong, Germany, Poland, Liechtenstein, Slovenia, Colombia and Lithuania are improving at twice the rate. Researchers estimate that gains made by students in those 11 countries equate to about two years of learning.

What gains U.S. students posted in recent years are “hardly remarkable by world standards,” according to the report. Although the U.S. is not one of the nine countries that lost academic ground for the 14-year period between 1995 and 2009, more countries were improving at a rate significantly faster than that of the U.S. Researchers looked at data for 49 countries.

The study’s findings echo years of rankings that show foreign students outpacing their American peers academically. Students in Shanghai who recently took international exams for the first time outscored every other school system in the world. In the same test, American students ranked 25th in math, 17th in science and 14th in reading.

A 2009 study found that U.S. students ranked 25th among 34 countries in math and science, behind nations like China, Singapore, South Korea, Hong Kong and Finland. Figures like these have groups like StudentsFirst, headed by former D.C. schools chancellor Michelle Rhee, concerned and calling for reforms to “our education system [that] can’t compete with the rest of the world.”

Just 6 percent of U.S. students performed at the advanced level on an international exam administered in 56 countries in 2006.

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