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Edtech Should Be More Evidence-Driven

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Perhaps most critically, edtech also has potential to provide children with a personalized learning experience tailored to their own context, interests, and abilities—something that a new UNESCO report calls a human right.

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It’s Time to Soften Schools, Not Harden Them

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Most had a history of school disciplinary infactionsactions. An example of the benefits is the case of Think Equal , a global education initiative endorsed by the United Nations Human Rights Office, teaching social emotional learning to 3-5 year olds. Secret Service in 2019. Most communicated their intent to attack.

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What Asian American Educator Stories Reveal About Racial Nuances Within ‘People of Color’

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People from those cultures have nuanced histories, perspectives, and experiences in the U.S. describes in her 2015 book “The Making of Asian America: A History”[iii] that the model minority stereotype has roots in World War II and the Cold War, then was proliferated in the 1980s in newspapers and magazines. and in its schools.

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This Teacher Turned Her Journalism Experience Into a Bilingual Media Literacy Class

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I wrote an op-ed in La Raza called “La alfabetización mediática es un derecho civil” — media literacy is a human right. In science class, how the technology measures tornadoes for the weather segment. Or in history class, you can analyze old newspapers and see how certain events in history were written about.

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Educators: We Must Be Champions for Our Trans Students

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A Landscape of Discriminatory Policies and Hostile Environments According to the Human Rights Campaign , this has been the “worst year in recent history for LGBTQ state legislative attacks,” with nearly 40 states introducing 238 anti-LGBTQIA+ bills in just the first three months of 2022.

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