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Are Latino ‘Systems of Knowledge’ Missing From Education Technology?

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EdSurge recently posed a question to a panel of Latino educators and an edtech leader: Is educational technology serving the Latino community, particularly its students? For Vigil, to get to the root of how technology falls short for Latino students, you have to go way back in time. Who Is Edtech Made for?

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Do Alternatives to Public School Have to Be Political?

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Fiske had been previously employed by an independent school in California, while in a doctoral program for education psychology, researching how people learn, she says. That’s partly why he’s interested in classical learning, a form of education that often emphasizes the “classics” of Western heritage.

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Why Healing Affinity Spaces Are Necessary for Black Women Educators

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Creativity, learning and innovation flourished in African communities, and that heritage lives in African descendants, especially apparent in the way we teach and radically care for our students. A question Black womxn educators must ask themselves when centering their healing is who you are and where you come from?

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

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But within those blanket terms to describe “minorities” are dozens of cultures with unique heritages, ethnicities, and geographic locations. We often use catch-all acronyms and shorthand like “POC,” “BIPOC,” and “Black and brown people” to describe experiences of discrimination and oppression of people in the U.S. who are not white.

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