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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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‘Black At’ Instagram accounts put campus racism on display

The Hechinger Report

They graduated from Amherst College in 2018. Kyndall Ashe, 2018 graduate of Amherst College. There, she said, “folks are not actively taking classes about diversity, about how you engage in social justice work, about what it means to engage in social justice work, so we wanted to be able to disseminate that information.”.

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PROOF POINTS: Leading dyslexia treatment isn’t a magic bullet, studies find, while other options show promise

The Hechinger Report

The American Institutes for Research, a nonprofit research group, found no statistical benefits for these multisensory interventions in a 2018 report. Science evolves. We don’t need emphasis on ‘multisensory’; we need emphasis on being explicit, systematic and after all of the components of language in our interventions.”.

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Charter school leaders should talk more about racism

The Hechinger Report

“Charter schools can do more with less” is a common refrain of school choice advocates, who criticize traditional public schools for wasting money. There is not a superintendent or school leader in either charter or traditional schools who shouldn’t want $48,000 added back to the value of homes in majority black school districts and cities.

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

The Hechinger Report

But now a convergence of factors — a dwindling pool of traditional-age students, the call for more educated workers and a pandemic that highlighted economic disparities and scrambled habits and jobs — is putting adults in the spotlight. If we are not doing this,” he said, “it is a social justice issue.

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Universities try to catch up to their growing Latinx populations

The Hechinger Report

And given the former abundance of well-paying, blue-collar jobs in this corner of Indiana, the university is also up against a regional tradition that doesn’t necessarily place a high value on a college degree, she said. Román-Lagunas said she has noticed that “the Latino student groups used to be stronger.”