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MAY 21, 2024

But the moms in the community who support public schools have organized to create a more equitable and diverse educational landscape. They have teamed up with local educational organizations to advocate for the school district, and by extension, for racially and economically diverse schools.

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OCTOBER 6, 2022

As an assistant professor of economics at City College in New York, Shankar knew that one of the most important requirements of scientific research was often missing from studies of the effectiveness of online higher education: a control group. This story also appeared in The New York Times.

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2017

Teacher education programs must recruit, support and prepare aspiring teachers who are racially, culturally, linguistically and socio-economically diverse. Lin Goodwin is vice dean and Evenden Professor of Education at Teachers College, Columbia University. Ensure that our teaching force mirrors students’ diversity.

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AUGUST 23, 2016

This is even more remarkable when contrasted with the economics of child care in the U.S.: Still, England shares many cultural and economic similarities, certainly more than the Scandinavian countries often cited as having ideal educational systems. Rowena Phair, Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development.

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FEBRUARY 21, 2017

To be sure, where a district can reasonably execute bilingual and English-only models with equal efficacy, there are many merits to buckling down and pursuing bilingual education as goal in and of itself. It can give biliterate Americans an economic advantage in multilingual job markets.

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MAY 11, 2016

Although the two Connecticut events occurred back-to-back, Malloy likely failed to connect the dots: Given their diverse instructional, linguistic, and cultural competencies, paraprofessionals could help address the state’s recurring bilingual teacher shortage. However, their pathways into teaching contain many hurdles.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

Local Spanish-speaking Hispanic business leaders took part, helping build a linguistic and cultural bridge between the school and the community. Their parents’ lack of familiarity with higher education in the United States, combined with language and economic barriers, make it challenging for Hispanic students to pursue degrees, she said.

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MAY 30, 2018

In New Orleans, 81 percent of public school students are economically disadvantaged, according to data from the Louisiana Department of Education. So to jump from that kind of culture [to] where you’re sitting by yourself for an hour, doing your own work, was a little bit difficult.”.

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JULY 21, 2023

There are cultural forces that are making pracademics at the forefront of discussions,” said Teri-Lisa Griffiths, a former youth worker who now teaches criminology at Sheffield Hallam and has co-edited a new book about pracademics. They can perpetuate bad habits and cultures as well as good, in fields such as law enforcement, for example.

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OCTOBER 22, 2018

Over the past several months, though, the Trump administration has proposed or put in place a series of education policies rooted in colorblindness, policies that reverse previous guidelines that many school districts have used to help them determine how they examine and address the racial disparities plaguing our schools.

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AUGUST 7, 2023

She cited the film Black Panther as one example, combining images of various African cultures with advanced technology. Victoria Trice, who teaches the pilot AP African American history course in Jefferson Public Schools, Kentucky Those kinds of discussions also require a supportive school culture and administration, she said.

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DECEMBER 5, 2016

To achieve this vision, he should start by putting his incoming Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos on a plane to world education superpower Finland to see what school choice means in its most powerful form — the choice from among numerous, great, neighborhood schools anywhere in the country. Is Finland different than the United States?

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FEBRUARY 28, 2018

Her school has a diverse mix of students, both racial and economic. The OECD has found that vouchers targeted specifically to low-income families significantly decrease socio-economic segregation between public and private schools compared to vouchers that any family can use, regardless of income. Sign up for our newsletter.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2016

The lack of attention to education during the run-up to the presidential election left many to wonder just how much of a priority quality educational opportunity is for most Americans. We didn’t hear much in the way of education policy from either Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton along the campaign trail.

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OCTOBER 7, 2024

We want to know what questions you have about the election and education policy. On abortion Immediately after Roe was overturned, we wondered what the fallout would be for medical education and soon reported on future doctors who were rethinking where they wanted to conduct their training. We have some very full classrooms.

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AUGUST 12, 2024

In 2020, in the early days of the pandemic, Trump signed the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security, or CARES, Act, which allotted an additional $3.5 Vance, meanwhile, made education culture war issues central to his 2022 run for Senate. billion for the Child Care and Development Block Grant.

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NOVEMBER 25, 2024

[Donald Trump] The time has come to reclaim our once great educational institutions from the radical left, and we will do that. Jon] Let’s begin by separating Trump’s campaign rhetoric from political reality and exploring how likely changes in higher education policy will affect you. Kirk] Right.

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