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2018 Education Innovation Clusters Convening: Looking to the Future

Digital Promise

Roberts (@DoctorDRoberts) July 17, 2018. — Frank Bonsal III (@FrankBonsal) July 17, 2018. — The ExCITe Center (@excitecenter) July 17, 2018. Education is the social justice issue of our time…period. — Carly Croman (@carly_croman) July 17, 2018. — Demetrius C.

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Two Programs with Fresh Solutions to the Teacher Shortage

Cult of Pedagogy

Her resume is too long to list here, but she’s been a special ed teacher, the 2018 Louisiana Teacher of the Year, a mentor to many, an award-winner, and a leader in too many education initiatives to name. ” Eckert believes this appeal to social change is what makes EdRising different from recruitment programs of the past.

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Students sick of ‘lip service’ from universities over racism

The Hechinger Report

Lourdes Torrey was only a few weeks into her first year at the University of Missouri in 2018 when she heard a white student in the dorm room next to hers use the N-word. In a state where almost one-third of residents are Black, in 2018, only 8 percent of students at the flagship university were Black and only 3 percent were Black men.

Advocacy 145
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OPINION: Police reform is useless unless it helps those in prison, too

The Hechinger Report

By 2018, the LDO had entered into a contract with the Mexican Government to offer the Plaza Comunitaria at MCC, an online program that provides a basic education certificate (much like an American GED) that is recognized in Mexico. Related: OPINION — The devastating consequences of leaving higher education out of prison reform.

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For adults returning to college, ‘free’ tuition isn’t enough

The Hechinger Report

Recently, she started classes toward a bachelor’s degree in organizational leadership and learning at the University of Louisville. If we are not doing this,” he said, “it is a social justice issue. In May 2020, White earned an associate degree in business administration, with a 3.84 That degree program is not free.

Economics 144
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‘You can’t help but to wonder’: Crumbling schools, less money, and dismal outcomes in the county that was supposed to change everything for black children in the South

The Hechinger Report

The class of 2018 didn’t fare much better. And although white and black students make up a similar proportion of Mississippi’s student population, white students were more than twice as likely to attend one of Mississippi’s 31 A-rated school districts this year, according to 2018-19 enrollment data.

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Why decades of trying to end racial segregation in gifted education haven’t worked

The Hechinger Report

Gifted education needs to diversify, they said — for racial and social justice, and because otherwise it might not survive. They said that giftedness could also be creativity, and found that a high IQ score did not necessarily correspond with leadership, professional accomplishment or even success in school.

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