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Unlocking Skills: What Learners and Employers Need to Know About Microcredentials

ED Surge

1EdTech inherited Open Badges from Mozilla in 2017. In the higher education setting, a lot goes into the governance structure around creating course content. The digital credential program is helping promote equity and social justice, reaching communities beyond the traditional educational pathway.

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Should rich families be allowed to fundraise a better public school education for their kids?

The Hechinger Report

It feels really good to say, β€˜I believe in this and that,’” said Dawn Larson, a social justice and equity co-chair of the Green Lake PTA. β€œTo Ultimately, Wilson and Boggs said, it is the position of the National PTA that all necessary equipment and staffing at public schools should be paid for with government funds.

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Charter school leaders should talk more about racism

The Hechinger Report

The Lincoln Institute for Land Policy found that local governments provide nearly half of the funds for local school districts. The think tank the Urban Institute found that local governments receive around 30 percent of their funding from property taxes , a combined sum of $473 billion across all U.S. localities.

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Curricular Innovations in Political Science at Community Colleges: APSA’s Committee on the Status of Community Colleges Virtual Workshop Series

Political Science Now

A tenured Professor at the College of Southern Nevada, Professor Levy teaches courses in American Politics and Government, American Public Policy, Political Philosophy, Social Justice Movements, Minority Politics and Women in Politics.

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Putting Language to Work in the Dominican RepublicΒ 

Anthropology News

This headline provoked intense conversation among youth in a language and social justice course I developed with three multilingual educators at a nonprofit organization (Institute for the Future, IFF). As students noted, tourism jobs required English without paying minimum wage and were marked by exploitative labor conditions.

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In Memoriam: Dr. Boris E. Ricks, Associate Professor of Political Science at California State University, Passes Away

Political Science Now

He also served on the Teaching and Learning Conference Program Committee from 2012 through 2017, helping to organize the structure and content of the meetings. His scholarship focused on the study of government, politics, and political actors, with an emphasis on their origins, foundations, and interactions with groups and individuals.

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Mental health: Is that a job for schools?

The Hechinger Report

In an effort to help, federal and state governments are allocating hundreds of millions of dollars in new funding to cover everything from training more providers to running mental health awareness programs. Advocates suggest the school building is the most accessible and least stigmatizing place for mental health support.