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OPINION: Legacy admissions are unnecessary, raise moral concerns and exclude deserving students

The Hechinger Report

In 2020 for example, MacKenzie Scott donated $560 million to 23 Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs). In other contexts, when a donation is linked to a wrong, or a human rights violation, the donor is seen as complicit in that wrong. Some are guided by a moral compass. But who is excluded from that community?

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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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A school created a homeless shelter in the gym and it paid off in the classroom

The Hechinger Report

A 2020 report from UCLA’s Center for the Transformation of Schools, funded in part by the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, found that several indicators of educational distress — including suspensions and absenteeism rates — are, on average, worse for Black, American Indian, Pacific Islander, and multiracial students experiencing homelessness. (The

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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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Dr. Kimberly A. Mealy Appointed as the Next Executive Director of the American Political Science Association

Political Science Now

million dollar Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant (DDRIG) (2020-2023 and 2023-2026). million dollars in 2021; and serving as the co-Principal Investigator on the National Science Foundation (NSF) $1.4

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

The Hechinger Report

Department of Labor, one million jobs in computing will go unfilled by 2020. I have said it before, CSEd is a new human right that should be accessible to all students, regardless of race, gender or socioeconomic status, and universal access inevitably closes the digital divide. According to the U.S.

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

ED Surge

Disaggregating People of Color As a Black researcher, educator, and professional committed to intersectional racial justice, I observe that learning about the humanness of people with whom I research puts much of the racial division in context of a broader history of Eurocentrism and imperialism. White supremacy does so much to all of us.”

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