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“People need to walk in the places where these things happened.” September 13, 2023, 8:24 AM ET • 6 min read After Florida’s governor and education department rolled out a controversial updated curriculum regarding Black history lessons, many students, parents, educators and elected officials raised their voices over how slavery was being presented. The new […]
A lot of elementary school teachers hate the prospect of teaching math, even when the math concepts are beginner level. Helping them gain confidence could be one key to unlocking America’s post-pandemic math recovery, educators say. Why We Wrote This How might students benefit from having teachers who are more confident about their own math […]
August 22, 2023 CAIRO – On August 21, 2023, the U.S. Embassy in Cairo held the RELO Cairo Ignite Conference for 400 Egyptian English language teachers, focused on strengthening the English language teaching community in Egypt and sharing best practices among educator communities. The conference organization was supported by volunteer alumni of the Embassy’s Regional English Language Office (RELO) […]
03:40 – Source: CNN Historian says teachers are being required to teach a lie about a massacre Protesters marched against Florida’s Black history education standards that require lessons that include “how slaves developed skill which, in some instances, could be applied for their personal benefit.” CNN’s Carlos Suarez reports on the backlash. Source link
Why teachers are concerned over Florida’s new Black History teaching standards CNN Source link
An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: Two U.S. schools have confirmed that TIAA, a nonprofit organization that provides financial services for individuals in academic fields, has been caught up in the mass-hacks targeting MOVEit file transfer tools. Middlebury College in Vermont and Trinity College in Connecticut both released security notices confirming they experienced […]
Over the last four years, Oakland teachers have gone on strike three times. The reasons have mostly been what one would expect: low pay, large class sizes, and allegations of unfair labor practices at the school district. But this year, a different set of issues emerged as a major sticking point in the negotiations between […]
Macalester students Valeska Kohan ‘23 and Amanda de Souza ‘25 have been awarded $10,000 from Davis Projects for Peace to carry out their own project in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, where both students grew up. For over 15 years, Projects for Peace has worked with partner institutions to seek out young peacebuilders and encourage them […]
NEW YORK — The presence of Black male teachers emerges as a catalyst for transformative learning experiences at US schools, but the lack of their presence is a concerning trend that doesn”t seem to be getting any better, reported NewsOne, a news portal for Black America, on Wednesday. According to Time, more than 20 percent […]
Students are dismissed from the first day of school at PS 133 in the Brooklyn borough of New York, the United States, on Sept. 13, 2021. (Photo by Michael Nagle/Xinhua)