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Jobs in cybersecurity are exploding: Why are women locked out?

The Hechinger Report

Employers in the United States, and countries worldwide, face a critical shortage of professionals trained in protecting corporate and government computer networks and systems from cyberattack. will grow 28 percent by 2026. will grow 28 percent by 2026. The social conditioning starts really early.”. Sign up for our newsletter.

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One state uses data about job needs to help decide what colleges should teach

The Hechinger Report

Instead, many colleges and universities rely on outdated federal government data about employer needs, continue offering majors whose graduates can’t get work, take years to create new courses in subjects for which businesses have immediate openings , or ignore altogether the question of whether their programs are training students for jobs.

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Dr. Kimberly A. Mealy Appointed as the Next Executive Director of the American Political Science Association

Political Science Now

million dollar Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant (DDRIG) (2020-2023 and 2023-2026). million dollars in 2021; and serving as the co-Principal Investigator on the National Science Foundation (NSF) $1.4

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Eclipsed by urban counterparts, rural nonwhites go to college at equally low rates

The Hechinger Report

A typical agriculture worker makes $22,540 per year, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics , and mechanization has steadily reduced demand for them; the government projects zero growth in agriculture through at least 2026. Sign up for our newsletter. Choose as many as you like. Weekly Update. Future of Learning. Higher Education.

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For Families Needing the Most Help, Child Care Costs Are About to Drop

ED Surge

Many of those parents had government assistance for school tuition, but half the time, Farias couldn’t count on them to make their co-payments. To be considered affordable by the Department of Health and Human Services, they must cost no more than 7 percent of a family’s income. All will need to be in compliance by 2026.

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Inside Canada’s 50-year fight for national child care

The Hechinger Report

The new system aims to provide child care for an average of $10 a day in licensed settings, with plans to create an additional 250,000 spots for children by 2026. For many years, the province of Quebec has shown the potential benefits of government funding for child care. In 1997, Quebec began offering low-cost, flat-fee child care.

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College Uncovered, Season 2, Episode 8

The Hechinger Report

At the same time, to address mental health concerns, colleges are creating more courses in fields like “the environmental humanities,” Hamilton and Taylor Swift studies and offering more and more wellness days. Education Department is finally set to go into effect in 2026. So what’s really happening inside classrooms?