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We asked Asian American students what they wanted from history instruction. They say including their voices is not enough.

The Hechinger Report

NEW YORK — There’s a new look to history classes in New York City schools: a curriculum in Asian American and Pacific Islander history. history instruction include an Asian American and Pacific Islander K-12 curriculum. Now, they say, it’s time for their history classes, educators and textbooks to catch up. KELLEN ZENG.

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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. But how can schools equip students with these essential competencies?

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Activist students go to summer camp to learn how to help institute a ‘green new deal’ on their campuses

The Hechinger Report

This past winter, she attended a precursor event to the camp in Philadelphia, at which students got an introduction to the Sunrise Movement and climate advocacy. Learning about the warming planet left her feeling like she “was being suffocated,” she said. This month, in Illinois, she’s part of the program’s art team.

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While focus is on fall, students? choices about college will have a far longer impact

The Hechinger Report

One cataclysmic event can do it in,” said Renn, a professor of higher, adult and lifelong education at Michigan State University. That’s the inescapable lesson of history and research. In-person events like this have proven to reduce dropout rates for first-year students, but some may be canceled this year because of the pandemic.

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Colleges must stop holding students hostage and release their debt

The Hechinger Report

I served as a keynote speaker at the Lumina event.). The United States’ ignoble history of segregation, housing and employment discrimination and a broken criminal justice system has kept millions of black people from supporting their families and robbed us of opportunities to create wealth.

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CogSciSci Conference, May 2024

Dr. Preece

I was very grateful to the organisers – for putting on an amazing event, with a real teacher-led discussion sense and a great buzz about the room – but also for encouraging and supporting people to come along and share, even if their last science was some decades ago now. Alban’s School to attend 2024’s Cog Sci Sci conference.

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Three ways to turn schools into safe learning environments for LBGTQ students in post-Orlando America

The Hechinger Report

Include LGBTQ people and events in your curriculum. history happen, that is terrifying. Palmertree, MSW, is Director of Program and Service Development for Children’s Advocacy Centers of Tennessee. How do you react when a student physically or verbally harasses another student because of their LGBTQ identity? That is numbing.

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