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It’s a cultural rebuild,” said Randy Emery, a welding instructor at the College of the Sequoias in California’s Central Valley. It says tradespeople also are older than workers in other fields — more than half were over 45 in 2012, the last period for which the subject was studied — meaning looming retirements could result in big shortages.
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College is geared more toward the traditional student,” he said. When he reentered school at Olympic College in Washington State in 2012, Jackson was elected class president and made the dean’s list. But Castillo said that getting a higher education is probably the hardest thing he’s ever done.
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the anti-free-speech charge, applied broadly to cultural criticism and especially to feminist discourse, has proliferated. Sarkeesian has been relentlessly stalked, abused and threatened since 2012, when she started a Kickstarter campaign to fund a series of YouTube videos critiquing the representation of women in video games.
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Traditional arts ensembles like marching band and big band don’t necessarily resonate,” said superintendent Paul Gausman, a musician and long-time music educator. The data from the earlier survey is available in a detailed 2012 report by the U.S. There is no society, there is no human culture, without the arts.”.
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