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STUDENT VOICE: The path to health equity begins in K-12 classrooms

The Hechinger Report

We know that these disparities can shrink when patients are cared for by doctors who share their cultural backgrounds and lived experiences. The path to becoming a doctor is daunting, full of obstacles like financial hardship, lack of mentorship and systemic inequities in education. Policymakers and educators must step up.

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How Creative Technology Can Help Students Take on the Future

ED Surge

Brian Johnsrud Director of Education Learning and Advocacy, Adobe To explore this challenge, EdSurge sat down with Brian Johnsrud , the director of education learning and advocacy at Adobe. EdSurge: How can educators prepare students for the future workforce and foster in-demand skills such as creativity and adaptability?

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Don’t say there’s a lack of STEM talent in the South

The Hechinger Report

Earlier this month, sports and culture news site The Undefeated published a story about NASA mathematician Clyde Foster. If the number of black-owned firms in Birmingham was proportionate to the percentage of college-educated residents who are black, 830 more businesses in the city would be black-owned. Trade Industry. Manufacturing.

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Trust issues

The Hechinger Report

Related: Interested in coverage about climate change and education? Six tribes, including CKST, have sued the state of Montana for failing to implement its Indian Education for All curriculum in public schools over the past few decades, despite a mandate to do so. Sign up for our newsletter here. They want the land.”

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Tech Groups Have Long Encouraged Girls to Pursue STEM. Could the Anti-DEI Wave End That?

ED Surge

Thats why Anjum is among those dismayed by the aggressive backlash against programs centered on diversity, equity and inclusion in the federal government, private companies and higher education. It could have run afoul of the states ban on DEI programs in higher education, but it carried on as a recruitment initiative.