The Hechinger Report

JUNE 12, 2024

During the pandemic shutdown, daycare owner Roxana Contreras sold her house when her income evaporated overnight. Maria Teresa Manrique nearly lost her business, and her life, when a family brought Covid into her home daycare. As an education reporter and editor in Boston during the pandemic, I was struck by the starkly disparate treatment of the state’s strongly unionized K-12 teacher workforce and the less-organized child care workforce, which includes Contreras and Manrique.

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ED Surge

JUNE 12, 2024

"It would be amazing if the boys were able to find their voices and develop confidence before they go into high school," my supervisor remarked during a meaningful conversation about Black boys in our school. She expressed genuine concern about the challenges many staff members faced in effectively relating to and supporting Black boys. She noted that the boys would often have emotional outbursts in class, and when confronted about their behavior, they would become unresponsive and disengaged.

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Digital Promise

JUNE 12, 2024

Education Week’s 2024 Leadership Symposium offered timely insights around educator recruitment and retention, equitable AI use, and family partnerships.

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Leadership Education 104

Smithsonian Voices | Smithsonian Education

JUNE 12, 2024

Meet the college student who’s changing the world with innovative solutions and promoting the power of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) for positive impact every chance she gets

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Political Science Now

JUNE 12, 2024

Noor May Hamwy graduated from the University of Washington-Seattle with a Bachelor of Arts in Economics and Public Health-Global Health in 2020. She then pursued her master’s in public policy at Hamad bin Khalifa University in Qatar Foundation. Currently, she is a first-year political science Ph.D. student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, specializing in comparative politics.

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Living Geography

JUNE 12, 2024

While looking for something else, I came across a resource I wrote quite a while back now for the RGS website. I worked with Ralitsa Hiteva, a PhD candidate who was exploring the development of energy in Bulgaria. The theme was Energy Security. Resources are still here on the RGS website.

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Research 52

Political Science Now

JUNE 12, 2024

In the APSA Public Scholarship Program, graduate students in political science produce summaries of new research in the American Political Science Review. This piece, written by Komal Preet Kaur , covers the new article by Sabrina B. Arias and Christopher W. Blair, “In the Eye of the Storm: Hurricanes, Climate Migration, and Climate Attitudes.” As climate-driven disasters wreak havoc across the globe, a pressing question arises: how do these catastrophic events influence political at

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Political Science Tradition Research 57