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College and Career Ready or Not | EduShyster

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College and Career Ready or Not



 How to talk to your little ones about art history

It is never too early to begin preparing your little ones for the jobs that will cease to exist in the future—even if you don’t actually have little ones. So imagine the frustration of successfully filling your little ones full of college and career readiness only to watch them choose the wrong choice: say art history, or poetry. Is there anythingyou can do to forestall this terrible fate? 
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Chances are, your career-ready kindergartener LUVS his or her teacher. [Brief pausewhile writer shakes her head.] You see, it may be time for a tough little talk with your youngster in which you explain that a *nice* teacher and a *highly effective* teacher are not one and the same, no matter how sweet she was when you had that little problem at nap time. Using brightly colored blocks (or *blocks* on your at-home Amplify tablet), quickly and