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MARCH 22, 2023

Depending on their interests, Chao says, the student-led chapters might exchange letters based on a theme, focus on education around mental health, or participate in advocacy for mental health resources at their schools. It’s OK to be a work in progress as much as anyone else.”

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MAY 16, 2023

The film is made as a work of advocacy, by the group Represent Justice, but it goes out of its way to try to understand the views of all the parties involved, including the campus resource officer, Ben Fields. It has me constantly reminding myself to work with human beings, not human behavior.

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MAY 23, 2022

By hearing educators’ stories, Kang says, she will be in a better position to share them and promote greater awareness and understanding. The other is creating belonging at NAEYC, a professional and advocacy organization with nearly 60,000 members across its 52 affiliates. “I So Kang is listening.

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FEBRUARY 21, 2023

And the early childhood educators who remain in the field have done so despite low wages, rising inflation and high-stress working conditions. So, too, has the recent decision by New Mexico voters to guarantee the right to early childhood education in the state constitution. In both cases, nothing changed overnight.

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MAY 20, 2024

A middle school teacher shared how her values compete with her capacity to care for her own mental well-being while caring for her students from underserved communities in Georgia: "My values are advocacy and mental health. This same teacher described how she prioritized time to attend the healing circle because “she needed it.”

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MARCH 27, 2023

Projects include making animations, creating statistical databases of favorite sports teams and designing programs that can identify pneumonia in scans of human lungs. Teenagers come to the lab to develop their own projects under the tutelage of Google employees and Code Next’s academic coaches.

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JUNE 17, 2022

Students are forming clubs, organizing sit-ins and walk-outs, and engaging in advocacy about all sorts of issues. These students will be our next leaders, from judges and law enforcement officials to educators and everything in between. Students are not immune to the most pressing issues of our time.

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NOVEMBER 22, 2022

There is a coalition of children's rights and children's advocacy groups that has been at COP, led by UNICEF. are in some ways the most vulnerable and the most disenfranchised group or population of any humans.” So they are in some ways the most vulnerable and the most disenfranchised group or population of any humans.

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MAY 24, 2023

The state partnered with Asian Americans Advancing Justice Chicago (AAAJ Chicago) — a local advocacy organization focused on advancing civil rights and racial equity, which advocated for the passage of the TEAACH Act — to support implementation.

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The job fairs are already at capacity — the company has an attractive offer of benefits, a 401(k), and paid time off — and expects more than 750 new jobs to come to the area , including in manufacturing, operations, human resources and administrative roles. But we don’t have the child care infrastructure to support this,” Gale says. “If

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Future of Learning newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes every other Wednesday with trends and top stories about education innovation. School districts that have been hit say they are taking new safety precautions.

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APRIL 15, 2024

To be considered affordable by the Department of Health and Human Services, they must cost no more than 7 percent of a family’s income. Because of those high co-pays, low-income families that qualify for the program haven’t used it, said Anne Hedgepeth, the chief of policy and advocacy at Child Care Aware, a national advocacy group.

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JANUARY 26, 2023

And that was another real experience that showed me what advocacy can do. So it’s advocacy that really changed my life. The goal is for] girls just being able to bring their full humanity to the space. How do we engage our young Black girls into mathematics in a way that we know to be productive and humanizing?

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JUNE 2, 2023

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.

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MAY 16, 2023

A version of this story appeared in USA Today But someone has to do all that charming, and not everyone has the magic touch, explains Tim Berry, vice president of human resources for the Dollywood Company. Momentum there is really important.

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APRIL 6, 2022

Instead, the New Orleans resident was excited to start a job in the human resources department of a Fortune 500 energy company. Budding businessman Vernell Cheneau III had decided against going to college by the time he graduated from high school in spring 2021. Vernell says he has been doing great work at Entergy ever since.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Later on, Ta opened an email from their school that mentioned the Kentucky Student Voice Team, a state-level group that was started in 2012 to bring students into the advocacy process. From there, now a freshman in high school, Ta joined the team as a student journalist, where they tried to put a “human touch” on complex issues.

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DECEMBER 9, 2022

A Landscape of Discriminatory Policies and Hostile Environments According to the Human Rights Campaign , this has been the “worst year in recent history for LGBTQ state legislative attacks,” with nearly 40 states introducing 238 anti-LGBTQIA+ bills in just the first three months of 2022.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Incentives for quality improvements A partnership between Alabamas Department of Human Services and Department of Early Childhood Education has produced meaningful child care quality improvements over the last three years. That same thinking must be applied to the people you're trying to convince to vote for this.

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JANUARY 6, 2025

Like air, humanities-driven work is everywhere but taken for granted, so much a part of life its easy to overlook. Published by Cambridge University Press, Public Humanities is pitched as a very large tent. Its open to all disciplines, geographies, periods, methodologies, authors, and audiences across the humanities.

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