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How Black Educators Navigate Intersectional Identities in the Classroom

ED Surge

After transitioning from teaching adolescents to educating adults, I’m challenged to understand people in the context of their identities and workplaces, especially when that context is unclear to me and those I educate. I do this while combating a flattening double consciousness, wrestling with who I am and others’ racialized and gendered perceptions of me.

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On paper, teens are thriving. In reality, they’re not

The Hechinger Report

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. Subscribe today! By traditional measures of well-being, America’s children and teens should be doing well. Consider that: Over the past two decades, high school graduation rates have gone up.

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Inviting Community College Students to See Themselves as University Researchers

ED Surge

When Alicia Garcia first enrolled at College of the Desert, she felt lost. Her first semester grades at the California community college were not good, she says, and she didn’t know much about financial aid or academic advising. But when one of her professors announced an opportunity for students to participate in a research internship to study young people’s well-being and civic engagement in the Coachella Valley, her interest was piqued.

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Reading the Future of an Amazonian Mine

Sapiens

In Ecuador, Shuar people, an Indigenous group in the region, face increasing threats to their ways of life from industrial mining. But some find strength and courage to resist through knowledge gained by using hallucinogenic plants. ✽ Organizing a labor union is risky business. Even more so if you try to do it in an industrial mine in the middle of the Amazon.

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On the Podcast: The Dispatch with Sue O'Connell

Heinemann Blog

Welcome to The Dispatch, a Heinemann podcast series. Over the next several weeks, we'll hear from Heinemann thought leaders as they reflect on the work they do in schools across the country and discuss, from their perspective, the most pressing issues in education today. Today we'll hear from Heinemann math author Sue O'Connell talk about the importance of positive math identities for both students and teachers.

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How These Students Are Getting Ready for a Global Workforce

Digital Promise

Students who completed Digital Promise’s free online modules on global competence in the workplace reflect on their learnings.

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Less than 1 percent of construction jobs go to women of color in this city 

The Hechinger Report

This story was produced by The 19th and reprinted with permission. In 2023, Diamond Harriel was looking to make a career switch. She had a 10-month-old daughter and had recently gone back to school for a business administration degree, hoping it could help her earn higher pay than the temporary administrative jobs she had been working. One day, through a program that helps single moms, she saw a flier about a new city initiative in Rochester, Minnesota, that aimed to bring women of color into th

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Advancing our Vision: A Message from Heinemann's President

Heinemann Blog

Matthew Mugo Fields reflects on the past year, and shares his vision for Heinemann in 2024.

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On paper, teens are thriving. In reality, they’re not

The Hechinger Report

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. Subscribe today! By traditional measures of well-being, America’s children and teens should be doing well. Consider that Over the past two decades, high school graduation rates have gone up.

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SURROUNDING™ THE HIDDEN TREASURES OF IRVINE

Life and Landscapes

SURROUNDING THE HIDDEN TREASURES OF IRVINE And many are precious. The people, especially. Friendly faces and intriguing stone facies, abound all about in natural spaces. Some are mysterious, and others, not hidden. Nature is like that. Good things that are obvious, and others that you have to work for! Some of its pleasures lie in buried layers, visible only as the stream scythes of time cut down within their many swings of drenching rain.

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From sole to toe: the story of a boot

Living Geography

A new StoryMap from Timberland : a company with strong sustainability credentials. This tells the story of the iconic yellow boot. It shows the global reach of this single product, which involves people from several continents, farmers and other industries.

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Available to cover short-term psychology teacher absence

Psychology Sorted

My dream job could be your dream solution. I am offering short-term online cover teaching for DP psychology. Contact me through the blog or FB.

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Learn More About: Racial Boundaries of Protection: How Victims’ Race and Ethnicity Shape Political Responses to Mass Shootings

Political Science Now

Project Title: Racial Boundaries of Protection: How Victims’ Race and Ethnicity Shape Political Responses to Mass Shootings George Agustin Markarian, Loyola University Chicago G. Agustin Markarian is an assistant professor at Loyola University Chicago. His research lies at the intersections of political representation and public policy, focusing on racial, ethnic, and class-based inequalities.

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Meet DFP Fall Fellow, Anson Chung, University of Toronto

Political Science Now

Anson Cheuk-Hin Chung (he/him) is an MA student in political science at the University of Toronto. He studies both the politics of immigration policies and judicial politics on constitutional interpretations. His current research focuses on how factors like race, economic selection, and foreign policy affect the government’s decision to make immigration policies, with a focus on Canada and the UK.