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Friday, November 06, 2009
Laid-off IT pros head to the classroom - Mitch Betts, Computerworld
A government grant is helping 30 unemployed IT professionals in Georgia start new careers as high school computer science teachers. With a $2.5 million grant from the National Science Foundation, the Georgia Institute of Technology's College of Computing has launched "Operation Reboot." The program pairs a laid-off IT professional with an existing high school teacher for at least one year, "allowing the IT professional to learn the ins and outs of a classroom, and the teacher to get an education in IT," the college said in a statement.
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