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What 2015 Holds for the Future of Education

Digital Promise

As we all take time to reflect on 2014, now is also a good time to look forward to 2015. At Digital Promise, we saw tremendous growth in 2014. At Digital Promise, we saw tremendous growth in 2014. ” Robert Bajor. Project Manager. Educator Micro-credentials. "With " Jennifer Kabaker. ” Jason Tomassini.

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OPINION: Proud of your students for walking out? Here’s what to do when they walk back in

The Hechinger Report

But if this civic action is to be sustained and to extend to topics beyond gun violence and school safety, schools need to do more to nurture these students’ dispositions toward political participation so they can continue to engage in informed and effective ways. Related: COLUMN: Making America whole again via civics education.

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We Have to Meet in Person to Be Moved by People’s Stories

Anthropology News

Anthropology has been quite slow to embrace Helen Schwartzman’s insight in The Meeting: Gatherings in Organizations and Communities (1989) that meetings offer a vital window into collective human projects and organizations. Solitary confinement is torture, as defined by the United Nations and many of the world’s human rights organizations.

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Celebrating ConnectED’s Achievements Toward Transforming Education

Digital Promise

Beginning in fall 2014, the students and teachers at Burbank Elementary School in Hayward, California, embarked on a new and ambitious program to integrate arts across the curriculum. Read more about Safari Books’ work.

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The Politics and Limits of Aspiration

Anthropology News

First, Sinovuyo described Launch’s distinct approach to life orientation (LO), a compulsory subject added to the national curriculum during the transition from apartheid that focuses on the study of self and society through lessons on personal and social development, civics and human rights, health, and career readiness.

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Building educational “success” on the backs of fired black teachers

The Hechinger Report

Reformers used an antiseptic term to describe it: strategic management of human capital. Adding insult to injury, non-profit groups were set up to support the new human capital as they found new jobs and places to live. There was a philosophy rooted in the distrust of black people that still goes unnamed.

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Black colleges can revive American cities

The Hechinger Report

Related: It’s time our educational institutions instilled some civic-minded values in students. Their more than 50,000 graduates in 2014 can expect total earnings of $130 billion over their lifetimes, 56 percent more than if those students didn’t earn their college credentials, according to the study. For instance, they generate $14.8