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 Amid clampdown on DEI, some on campuses push back

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Several weeks ago, for example, staff offices at Florida Atlantic University’s Center for Inclusion, Diversity Education and Advocacy in Boca Raton were vacant, with name plates blank and abandoned desks, plus LGBTQ+ flags, posters and pamphlets left behind. There is also mounting resistance to the laws.

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OPINION: Educators must be on the frontline of social activism

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Politicians around the country have been aiming to demolish progressive policies by targeting teaching about race and ethnicity, the LGBTQIA+ community and women’s reproductive rights. These dangerous culture wars will wreak havoc on education and education policy for years to come. Our goals were not far-fetched or new.

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As states push for news ways of learning, some kids and parents feel left behind

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The already converted policymakers, school leaders and teachers ready to transform traditional schooling came to this annual conference last week from around the world to share a common refrain: Out with the old. No more simply “sitting on your butt in class,” as one educator put it. Photo: Austin Haeberle. NASHVILLE, Tenn. –

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Despite mediocre records, for-profit online charter schools are selling parents on staying virtual

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Overall, about 63 percent of virtual for-profit schools were rated unacceptable by their states in the latest year for which data was available, according to a May 2021 report by the University of Colorado’s National Education Policy Center (NEPC). Related : The pandemic’s remote learning legacy: A lot worth keeping. Stride Inc.,

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Forget civics class: Students want to make a difference in real life

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In recent years, the group’s advocacy has led to changes in the district’s graduation requirements, to align them with admissions requirements for California’s university systems, and an expansion of funding for an after-school meal program that had been cut by the school board. Related: Making America whole again via civics education.

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States can change the way they think about education, but will they?

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When it comes to influencing education policy and cultivating innovative schools, all eyes are on the states. Thousands of educators from across the country are in San Antonio, Texas, this week for the annual iNACOL conference that seeks to explain and promote these methods to a broader spectrum of schools.

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New York’s upstate cities have some of the worst schools in the country

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There is something of an annual tradition among New York City mayors and school chancellors. But the annual celebrating of New York City’s feats ignores deeper differences, say educators and education policy experts, who contend that those upstate cities exist in an entirely different world. Photo: Emmanuel Felton.