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Schools Can’t Find Teachers. Do States Need More Credential Rules or Fewer?

ED Surge

2, which bans uncertified teachers from instructing in “core” subjects (reading, math, science and social studies) in public schools by the 2029-2030 school year. Recently, the governor signed H.B.

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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. The deadline is 7 January 2025.

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A new kind of high school diploma trades chemistry for carpentry

The Hechinger Report

Those changes will be effective for students in the class of 2029, or current eighth graders. After more than a year of public debate, the state created three graduation pathways that are meant to lead to college admissions, the workforce, or enlistment in the military.

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From President Kirk Ormand: The Future of the Annual Meeting

Society for Classical Studies

We have just signed a contract to hold our annual meeting, in conjunction with the AIA, in Boston in 2027 and are currently considering locations for 2028 and 2029, both of which also would be with the AIA. There are good reasons for our members uncertainty about the fate of the annual meeting.

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More women are landing construction jobs. Trump’s war on DEI could change that

The Hechinger Report

In December, the Illinois chapter of the AFL-CIO passed a resolution to increase the ratio of women in construction trades from about 5 percent to 20 percent by 2029. Most tradeswomen would tell you that they have to be more, not less, qualified than men to work even half as much.

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COLUMN: Teachers, states stepping up to keep climate change education alive as federal government defunds it

The Hechinger Report

The PISA ( Program for International Student Assessment ), the prestigious international report card program, announced last fall that it will develop a new measure of climate literacy, to be administered as part of the 2029 test.

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Apprenticeships for high schoolers are touted as the next big thing. One state leads the way

The Hechinger Report

Vinz Koller of Jobs for the Future said the goal is modest, and achievable; the number of youth apprenticeships has doubled just in the past few years, he said, and California alone has a goal of reaching 500,000 apprenticeships, across all ages, by 2029.