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How Schools Can Use Cultural Performing Arts to Reimagine Community-Engaged Learning

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When I was nine years old, my mother enrolled my brother and me in folklorico — a traditional cultural dance that emphasizes Mexican folk culture — at our local recreation center. During one of my social justice blocks, we dedicate a week to the Day of the Dead and its traditions. At first, I was annoyed.

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Two Universities Team Up to Stay Alive, But Stop Short of Merging

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“What’s interesting about this” Mary Marcy, president of Dominican University of California, says, “is that rather than doing it independently, they’re actually partnering around a common set of values and mission around social justice and democracy.” And that’s possibly new, Marcy says.

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Unlocking Skills: What Learners and Employers Need to Know About Microcredentials

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One of the draws to credentialing programs is that they afford learners unparalleled flexibility while requiring a considerably smaller investment of time than traditional degree programs. The credentialing world has grown significantly in the last few years , resulting in an evolving and sometimes undefined digital education model.

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How a Preschool on Wheels Is Driving Opportunity to Latino Immigrant Families in Colorado

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Gutted and retrofitted to look like traditional preschool classrooms, these mobile spaces host 3-, 4- and 5-year-olds in the valley who, otherwise, likely wouldn’t see a formal learning environment until kindergarten, by which time many of their peers are already steps ahead. But inside, day after day, small wonders are unfolding.

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Why Colleges Should Pay Attention to Strikes by Their Most Precarious Teachers

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Adjunct demands were not often treated with the same urgency by traditional academic organizations, such as the American Association of University Professors, National Education Association and American Federation of Teachers, who mostly represented tenured and tenure-track faculty.

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Is There Still Time to Build Equity into Virtual Reality Edtech?

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However, although virtual reality and simulation tools can indeed be costly, they also have the potential to be especially useful at the very same institutions that lack resources for traditional teaching equipment that is even more expensive, like advanced science labs or workforce-training technology.

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To Truly Measure Student Growth, Learning Experiences Must Be Personalized

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Danielle Grasso Vinas, Assistant Principal of Crescent Heights Social Justice & S.T.E.A.M. Magnet Elementary School , is excited about the prospect of redesigning traditional approaches to assessment and instruction.