These two Automation World articles discuss the need for useful, meaningful training in industry. One describes how a company is meeting training needs by combining online courses with in-house training by their own experts and experts from their equipment and automation providers. Another examines

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A mathematics professor from the University of Illinois at Chicago, recently published an editorial questioning our seeming obsession with how poorly U.S. kids perform on math tests. The question, he says, should not be why are we doing so poorly, but how much math education do people really need? "

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