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PROOF POINTS: Rural American students shift away from math and science during high school, study finds

The Hechinger Report

Bureau of Labor Statistics, occupations in these fields are projected to grow 8 percent by 2029, more than double the growth rate of non-scientific professions. Many small towns started as market towns or as small manufacturing towns in the industrial era and are now economically struggling. According to the U.S.

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Aging states to college graduates: We’ll pay you to stay

The Hechinger Report

Almost all of them are for professionals in specific areas of shortages — mostly teaching and healthcare — or who agree to work in underserved areas. That leaves a smaller population of graduates, a decline that’s beginning to happen nationwide and that can result in labor shortages, slower economic growth and declines in state tax revenues.

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What education could look like under Harris and Walz

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Walz spent part of his early career teaching in small rural schools, including on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota. — First lady Jill Biden, who teaches community college courses, is a member of the NEA. Walz, a former teacher, is also an NEA member. eventually obtaining a more than $1.1

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