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As jobs grow hard to fill, businesses join the drive to push rural residents toward college

The Hechinger Report

It’s that fewer than one in five of adults in the entire surrounding Humphreys County have at least an associate degree, according to census data analyzed by the nonprofit advocacy organization Complete Tennessee. Related: Economics, culture and distance conspire to keep rural nonwhites from higher educations.

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Beer making for credit: Liberal arts colleges add career tech

The Hechinger Report

The economic churn triggered by the Covid-19 pandemic “has increased the demand” for courses that can help people quickly learn what they need to find work, Paliwal said. The university has added certificate programs to teach people to be radiographers and CT, ultrasound, MRI and mammography technicians, who are in high demand.

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Changes to SCS Dues Rates

Society for Classical Studies

Changes to SCS Dues Rates kskordal Tue, 01/23/2024 - 12:33 Image We hope to see many of you again in Philadelphia next year (2-5 January 2025), and urge you to renew your membership now if you haven’t done so already, as dues rates are scheduled to rise on February 1st. Members joined before 1980 $36.00 $40.00 K-12 Teachers $38.00 $40.00

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How diplomas based on skill acquisition, not credits earned, could change education

The Hechinger Report

By 2025, four additional subject areas will be included: a second language, the arts, health and physical education. There was a sense that we needed to swing for the fences to make the economic transition the state needs to make.”. “In In terms of the proficiency-based diploma, Maine is the pioneer.”.

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Trust issues

The Hechinger Report

However, six of the eight proposals up for funding between 2025 and 2027 would be transferred to tribal nations. Kunesh, a descendant of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, has authored two bills that returned state land to tribes, each with a decade or more of advocacy behind it. Still, “it’s not that the tribes want money.

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These Educators Grew Up Before DACA. Now Their Students Face the Same Barriers.

ED Surge

Stuck in Limbo In a recently released report , immigration advocacy organization FWD.us By 2025, no undocumented high school graduates will be eligible for DACA under current rules.” It’s there that he earned his bachelor’s degree in economics from the Wharton School. Indeed, it seems like an essential part of their advocacy.

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Theme Panel: Civic Learning on Campus: Bringing Political Science In Mini-Conference I, II and III

Political Science Now

This roundtable will focus on Balasco, Forestal, and Abernathy’s Engaging Citizenship, a forthcoming introduction to politics textbook (Oxford University Press 2025). Carr and Van Hulle study how municipal boundaries affect equity in land-use, tax, and economic development policy, with a focus in Cook County, Illinois. Trojahn et al.