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How Creative Technology Can Help Students Take on the Future

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Brian Johnsrud Director of Education Learning and Advocacy, Adobe To explore this challenge, EdSurge sat down with Brian Johnsrud , the director of education learning and advocacy at Adobe. Brian Johnsrud The latest World Economic Forum Jobs Report highlights the top skills that will rise in importance by 2027.

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Don’t say there’s a lack of STEM talent in the South

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His “quiet and relentless advocacy brought hundreds of African Americans into space industry jobs in the Deep South, helping to shift perceptions of black people in ways both subtle and profound,” wrote Michael Fletcher in the story. STEM jobs will grow 13 percent from 2017 to 2027 , as opposed to 9 percent for non-STEM work.

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Colleges and states turn their attention to slow-moving part-time students

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That’s starting to change as federal forecasts show part-time enrollment outpacing full-time enrollment through at least 2027 and other new figures shed light on how long it takes for part-time students to graduate. “Students like us were not the focus of the program,” she said. “A A lot of us felt invisible.”.

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Universities increasingly turn to graduate programs to balance their books

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The federal government projects that graduate enrollment will rise by about another 3 percent through 2027 — a much more sluggish pace than in the last 10 years. The National Association of Graduate-Professional Students and other advocacy groups are lobbying Congress to mandate training for graduate mentors and advisors.

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Trust issues

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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.

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STUDENT VOICE: What losing the Department of Education would mean for special education

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Romila Santra is a member of the class of 2027 at Harvard Medical School and a freelance writer. She is passionate about advocacy for those with intellectual and developmental disabilities. She has also written for STAT news. Contact the opinion editor at opinion@hechingerreport.org.

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Former Trump commissioner blasts DOGE education data cuts

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Removal of commissioner disturbing Woodworth also decried the unexplained and sudden removal last week of his successor, Peggy Carr, a Biden appointee whose congressionally determined six-year term was supposed to extend through 2027. He called her departure a disturbing development. Many of those data collections were canceled.

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