Our 4 million kinders will leave public school in 2029 having spent more than 16,000 hours of their lives doing mandatory classroom time, and if they are lucky, they will enter the job market sometime in the 2030s. If we have any hope of doing right by the 4 million students in the class of 2029, then the time for change is now. MORE

My Nephews, Alex and Brody : Class of 2029 Last night, I wore my Mom hat as I accompanied my son to his Freshman Orientation. When I was a middle school principal, we often hosted visitors to our school. One of the best compliments I ever received from them was about how the school "felt". Time after time, people were impressed with the interactions they had witnessed and would ask me how we created that culture. MORE

Only a handful of states, colored in blue, are predicted to see an increase in the number of students attending regional four-year colleges and universities between 2012 and 2029. But student demand is expected to grow for the nation’s most elite colleges and universities between 2012 and 2029. News & World Report — is projected to drop by much less during the 2025 to 2029 period (18 years following the birth dearth). million in 2029. MORE

The field is projected to grow by 35 percent from 2019 to 2029, according to the latest data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. MORE

States that will soon follow in abandoning all their public higher education funding include my own state of Louisiana in 2027, Massachusetts and Rhode Island in 2029, Arizona in 2030, and the list goes on. Photo: Meredith Kolodner. It’s official: we have a new president. Whatever your politics, the decision has been made by the American people. MORE

Through 2029, growth in the IT sector is expected to rise 11 percent and add over half a million jobs to the U.S. Increasingly severe weather across the country highlights the vulnerabilities at the center of our national infrastructure. MORE

To meet that goal they’d have to launch 100,000 new businesses per year from now until 2029. Meredith Bunyard in her home-based child care in San Francisco. Rachel M. Cohen for The Hechinger Report. SAN FRANCISCO — Meredith Bunyard, 34, always knew she wanted to run her own preschool. MORE

between 2019 and 2029, this rate is nearly double for science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. By Nhon Ma Perhaps even more than any other field, STEM sectors have a bright future ahead. While the US job market is projected to grow by 3.7% With the world being constantly shaped by innovation, students have naturally gravitated towards STEM, and the notorious, timeless classroom question of “Where are we ever going to use it?” is slowly losing its relevance. MORE

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. Match High School senior Aneudy Polanco celebrates his choice of UMass Amherst with his mother and girlfriend on college ‘signing day.’ Photo: Liz Willen. MORE