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How Creative Technology Can Help Students Take on the Future

ED Surge

Brian Johnsrud The latest World Economic Forum Jobs Report highlights the top skills that will rise in importance by 2027. Traditional education has often taught students to swim in a controlled pool. Johnsrud In this sense, traditional education has often taught students to swim in a controlled pool.

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Call for Fellowship Applications: Exploring the Assumptions of Cultural History

Society for Classical Studies

In spring of the last year of the series (2027), fellows will come together in Minneapolis for a conference to share their findings, which will subsequently be published in an open access edited volume.

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Exploring the Assumptions of Cultural History: Call for Fellows

Society for Classical Studies

The lenses of Western modernity – e.g., capitalism, Christianity, democracy, empirical science – surreptitiously shape the study of past cultures in ways that disregard their own claims about their world in favor of those that align with traditions of the Euro-American academy.

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Evidence Shows That Home Visits Support Children and Families. Here’s What to Know.

ED Surge

Now, under a new funding formula, that allotment will double to $800 million annually by 2027. Before Congress reauthorized MIECHV in 2022 , the program was funded at $400 million annually. Starting this year , the federal government will match $3 for every $1 in non-federal funds spent on home visiting programs, up to a certain amount. “It

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OPINION: Six ways to nurture high-aptitude math students in under-resourced schools

The Hechinger Report

Engaging them with math puzzles or non-traditional problems may reveal that they have mathematical talent that ought to be nurtured. Available jobs in STEM are expected to increase by 13 percent, compared to 9 percent for non-STEM jobs, by 2027. Related: OPINION: Numbers evoke joy and wonder, why doesn’t math class?

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

The Hechinger Report

She transferred to the University of Massachusetts at Amherst a year later because she wanted to try the “traditional college thing” — dorms, dining halls and leafy quads. Living away from home meant paying for housing on top of tuition, so she took a job wrapping candles at a candle factory. A lot of us felt invisible.”.

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The new labor market: No bachelor’s required?

The Hechinger Report

between now and 2027. This convergence — fewer people pursuing diplomas, and more being recruited without one — raises the prospect of young workers putting less stock in obtaining a bachelor’s degree, for so long an unshakable aspiration for Americans of every background. If it sticks, Fuller and his co-authors believe 1.4