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Student Agency is More Than Voice and Choice

A Principal's Reflections

However, we must not lose sight of the third element that comprises this concept, and that is advocacy. Image credit: [link] While voice and choice are more aligned with ownership of learning in the classroom, advocacy aligns with improving the school or district culture. There is no point in student advocacy if no action results.

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Amid Child Care Crisis, New Head of NAEYC Pledges to Prioritize Listening and Inclusion

ED Surge

The other is creating belonging at NAEYC, a professional and advocacy organization with nearly 60,000 members across its 52 affiliates. “I The announcement led to a “lengthy and transparent national search” for Rhian Evans Allvin’s successor, says Ann McClain Terrell, NAEYC’s governing board president. So Kang is listening.

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Trust issues

The Hechinger Report

said Miriam Jorgensen, research director for the Harvard Project on Indigenous Governance and Development. Tribal nations and states have struggled with state and federal governments over jurisdiction and land since the inception of the United States, says Alex Pearl, who is Chickasaw and a professor of law at the University of Oklahoma.

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One of the poorest cities in America was succeeding in an education turnaround. Is that now in peril?

The Hechinger Report

This story also appeared in Belt Magazine “You all know that I call your kids my kids, and they won’t stop being my kids,” Gordon says, wrapping up the meeting. The group, made up of people with kids in the school system, functions as a communications channel between other parents and school principals and teachers.

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Looking Back on Build Your Business Radio

The Hechinger Report

Government officials. Tim Sullivan , formerly with the SBA Office of Advocacy and the Bipartisan Policy Center, but more recently represented the U.S. and some-time substitute host of my show. NFIB was also represented by then-health care advisor Bob Graboyes and Director of Public Policy Kevin Kuhlman.

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Is There Something Fishy about the Polygraph?

Anthropology News

He also worked for the US government, polygraphing German prisoners of war during World War II, as well as hundreds of employees of the top-secret uranium production facility at Oak Ridge, Tennessee. His advocacy for the polygraph backfired when he testified in defense of James Frye , a Black man who had recanted a murder confession.

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Teaching About Palestine-Israel and the Unfolding Genocide in Gaza

Zinn Education Project

We see this hierarchy of human worth playing out now in Gaza and the West Bank, as Israeli government ministers call Palestinians “human animals.” government. 972 Magazine is an independent magazine run by a group of Palestinian and Israeli journalists. This dehumanization fuels violence and oppression. Both the U.S.