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‘Digital skills gap’ threatens innovation

eSchool News

“There are just not enough people with the right digital skills to enable the transformation that companies are seeking,” said Salil Gunashekar , a research leader and associate director at RAND Europe who focuses on science and technology policy. RAND Europe, the European arm of global research firm RAND Corp.,

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Why it matters that Americans are comparatively bad at math

The Hechinger Report

The Defense Department, in a separate study, calls for an initiative akin to the 1958 Eisenhower National Defense Act to support education in science, technology, education and math, or STEM. Among the students who decide to study STEM in college, more than a third end up changing their majors , according to the U.S.

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The changing geography of work: a new report

Bryan Alexander

McKinsey just published a new report, “The future of work in America: People and places, today and tomorrow” ( summary ; longer document ), looking ahead to 2030 after new technologies have had some impact. The report isn’t happy with this, and asks us to make policy changes now.

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The changing geography of work: a new report

Bryan Alexander

McKinsey just published a new report, “The future of work in America: People and places, today and tomorrow” ( summary ; longer document ), looking ahead to 2030 after new technologies have had some impact. The report isn’t happy with this, and asks us to make policy changes now.

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The high school grads least likely in America to go to college? Rural ones

The Hechinger Report

Related: Universities and colleges struggle to stem big drops in enrollment. Charles Fluharty, president and CEO, Rural Policy Research Institute at the University of Iowa. million more college-educated workers by 2030 than it’s producing now. Disdain toward rural people “is the last acceptable prejudice in America.”

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Out of poverty, into the middle class

The Hechinger Report

As emerging technologies rapidly and thoroughly transform the workplace, some experts predict that by 2030 400 million to 800 million people worldwide could be displaced and need to find new jobs. Related: One reason students aren’t prepared for STEM careers? Photo by Kate Flock for The Hechinger Report. No physics in high school.

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The looming decline of the public research university

The Hechinger Report

The University of Wisconsin is where human embryonic stem cells first were isolated, and it has since become a center of stem cell research. Illinois reduced per-student spending by an inflation-adjusted 54 percent between 2008 and last year, according to the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities. counterparts.