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Why a Teacher-First Approach Is a Win for Edtech and Education

ED Surge

Taken to the extreme, when edtech willfully makes product decisions that are not in the best interest of educators and their students, it only serves to contribute to the brokenness of a system that too often fails at providing the basic human right of education to learners across the world.

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How Water Insecurity Impacts Women’s Health

Sapiens

Working in Indonesia and Peru, we also use this research, and our close partnerships with local communities and organizations, to spur action that supports gender equality and the basic human right to water. WATER INSECURITY AND GENDER-BASED VIOLENCE The statistics on rising water insecurity are distressing. An estimated “1.8

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We must not shut low-income students out of computer sciences

The Hechinger Report

We must reimagine schools’ goals and their learning culture, and invent new approaches for learning both new and traditional subjects and topics. Department of Labor, one million jobs in computing will go unfilled by 2020. Our education system must swiftly adapt to this new reality. According to the U.S.

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What Asian American Educator Stories Reveal About Racial Nuances Within ‘People of Color’

ED Surge

But within those blanket terms to describe “minorities” are dozens of cultures with unique heritages, ethnicities, and geographic locations. People from those cultures have nuanced histories, perspectives, and experiences in the U.S. who are not white. and in its schools. Claire Jean Kim, Ph.D., What Can Education Leaders Do?

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Qatar 2022: Controversial geographies And data

Geogramblings

Looking back at the resources that I created (below), I attempted to highlight the issues surrounding human rights alongside logistical controversies such as the climate and resources. Qatar’s laws and cultural norms are based on traditional gender roles and norms. Homosexuality is seen as a violation of these norms.

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Learn how Political Science Students are Improving Wikipedia

MPSA

While Wikipedia’s breadth and depth are staggering, it still consists of glaring content gaps, and no where is this more evident than in historically underrepresented areas, such as women, minorities, and non-Western peoples and cultures. They expanded the entries on the Constitution of Ghana as well as Human rights in Ethiopia.

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Civics U: What Form is Best, and What’s the Difference? Part 2 – Comparing Countries

Civics U

These systems will be reviewed by generally applying the rubrics of government power and elections; property and economics; and human rights. The United States Department of State Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor 2020 report on Russia’s human rights practices identifies a number of “significant human rights issues”.

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