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OPINION: Why we must invest in new, innovative workforce training to fill a skills gap

The Hechinger Report

Recent history reminds us that the only way we can build a stronger, more resilient society is by investing in meaningful workforce training and good-paying jobs in the rapidly growing information technology field. Through 2029, growth in the IT sector is expected to rise 11 percent and add over half a million jobs to the U.S.

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Engaging with the RGS collections

Living Geography

The second, Conferencing British geography: disciplinary history told through annual conferences (1949-2029) and their archives, is funded by the Midlands4Cities Doctoral Training Partnership and will support PhD research at the University of Nottingham, in partnership with the Society.

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High school seniors reveal choices in joyous ‘signing day’ ceremony

The Hechinger Report

The class of 2029 — currently in kindergarten — read touching letters of encouragement and advice for the largely low-income, minority upperclassmen, most of them the first in their families to attend college. And a total of eight Match students had been accepted to Northeastern University , the most in Match history. Tutors danced.

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What education could look like under Harris and Walz

The Hechinger Report

Walz has a long history of supporting LGBTQ+ students in Minnesota, where he was the faculty adviser of Mankato West High School’s first Gay-Straight Alliance club in the 1990s. In July 2023, Harris criticized a new history standard in Florida that said the experience of being enslaved had given people skills “for their personal benefit.”

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