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Uncertified teachers filling holes in schools across the South

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A Southern Regional Education Board analysis of 2019-20 data in 11 states found roughly 4 percent of teachers — which could be up to 56,000 educators – were uncertified or teaching with an emergency certification. But Texas’ second-largest district had to fill elementary classrooms and core subjects in middle and high schools.

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OPINION: How schools can find common ground in an era of education wars

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At the same time, McKinsey & Company estimates that automation and artificial intelligence will displace between 400 and 800 million jobs globally by 2030. Students learn about the dangers of these deserts, from childhood obesity to diabetes and heart disease, through data analytics and census data.

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Why it matters that Americans are comparatively bad at math

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READ THE SERIES Meanwhile, the number of jobs in math occupations — which “use arithmetic and apply advanced techniques to make calculations, analyze data, and solve problems” — will have increased by 29 percent in the 10 years ending in 2031, or by more than 30,000 per year, Bureau of Labor Statistics figures show.

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The number of public school students could fall by more than 8% in a decade

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What does the declining birthrate mean for elementary, middle and high schools across the country? But in order to predict high school graduates, WICHE’s statisticians also projected student enrollments for first grade through 2020 to 12th grade through 2030. According to one set of projections, it could mean 8.5 million in 2019.

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Home visiting in high school: Trying an intervention for toddlers on teenagers

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West Virginia unveiled a campaign this year for 60 percent of adults ages 25 to 64 to have earned a degree or certificate by 2030. Like elementary and middle school home visits, high school home visits are all about relationship building. That’s well below the statewide rate of 55 percent.

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OPINION: The pandemic will leave the next generation of Black tech talent behind

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Students who fall behind academically are very likely to remain behind — and elementary school test scores are a strong predictor of meeting future milestones like high school graduation. Otherwise, the 2030 diversity reports from Silicon Valley might look worse than they do today. percent in 2019 to just 1.8 percent in 2021.

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The potential, promise and pitfalls of blended learning in India

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billion population is under 25, will need some three million new primary school teachers by 2030. billion population is under 25, will need three million new primary school teachers by 2030. “I Progress is desperately needed: The UNESCO Institute for Statistics estimates that India, where half of the 1.2