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Cultivating Dragon Fruit’s Political Power in Ecuador

Sapiens

Magazine and has been republished under Creative Commons. Tsamarenda, a young man wearing a traditional red and yellow toucan feather crown, was personally delivering the seeds. We achieved all that, he said, without forgetting our sovereignty, our customs, and tradition. This article was originally published at YES!

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Student Agency is More Than Voice and Choice

A Principal's Reflections

For many schools, this flies in the face of a traditional schooling mindset that was more geared to learners having to buy-in to a one-size-fits-all system where success was determined by how well everyone did under the same conditions more or less. How would you rate the level of learner advocacy in your school or district?

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Will Virtual Reality Lead More Families to Opt Out of Traditional Public Schools?

ED Surge

(Younger children in the school take courses using more-traditional online tools, including Microsoft Teams.) She’s a champion of a model of education that favors students reading classical texts and otherwise focusing on the traditional canons of arts, literature and culture.

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Your 2-Year-Old is full of potential. Here’s how to develop it

The Hechinger Report

The series was produced by The Hechinger Report and Columbia Journalism School’s Teacher Project , nonprofit news organizations focused on education coverage, in partnership with Slate Magazine. This story was produced by Slate magazine. Sign up for our newsletter. Or view the whole series.

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Amid Child Care Crisis, New Head of NAEYC Pledges to Prioritize Listening and Inclusion

ED Surge

The announcement led to a “lengthy and transparent national search” for Rhian Evans Allvin’s successor, says Ann McClain Terrell, NAEYC’s governing board president. She referenced a TIME magazine cover story from February 1997, called “How a Child’s Brain Develops.” Events and professional development moved to a virtual setting.

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Vocabularies Unknown: The Future Is Personal

Anthropology News

These traditional vocabularies continue to obscure the people, places, and acts of creativity on the peripheries of mainstream narratives. And here in South Africa where Koffi Kouakou resides, a newly elected Coalition Government is still going through teething challenges of its own. Again, is anything ever really new?

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What France can teach us about how to to educate the most vulnerable 2-year-olds

The Hechinger Report

The series was produced by The Hechinger Report and Columbia Journalism School’s Teacher Project , nonprofit news organizations focused on education coverage, in partnership with Slate Magazine. The government does not have comparison figures from 2012 to show the precise rate of growth.). Sign up for our newsletter.