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This Is Your Brain on Math: The Science Behind Culturally Responsive Instruction

ED Surge

The location students identified had to be strategically located for equitable access, accounting for the needs of community members most limited by transportation and low economic support. They offer an invitation to analyze how mathematics can be applied to promote civic engagement, advocacy, policy change and increased access to resources.

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Information Sharing at the 2019 Nonprofit Technology Conference

Digital Promise

Recently, I attended the 2019 Nonprofit Technology Conference (NTC) in Portland, Oregon, hosted by NTEN , to catch up on the newest trends in educational technology (edtech) and learn about cutting-edge tools that may be integrated to boost adult learning and workforce development initiatives at Digital Promise.

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Facebook Makes It Cheap to Market to New Students. But It Costs Colleges Dearly.

ED Surge

Higher ed serves as one of the country’s cornerstones of democratic ideals and as a breeding ground for civic engagement and civil dialogue. That economic influence is powerful, yet we fail to use it to protest companies’ actions that run counter to our ethos. Higher ed spends billions of dollars a year on advertising.

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Teaching the Truth about George Floyd — and Our History

ED Surge

The post-Civil War era then ushered in the advent of “Black codes,” described as laws that “criminalized every form of African American freedom and mobility, political power, [and] economic power.”

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