The Hechinger Report

APRIL 18, 2021

Many of the flagships and highly selective public colleges are behaving basically like an Ivy League institution when it comes to admissions,” said Tomás Monarrez, a research associate at The Urban Institute who has analyzed racial representation in higher education. Gundy acknowledged such incidents could have hurt Black enrollment.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

In early November, Nina’s lacrosse coach called an urgent team meeting. Back on campus for the spring semester, Cante spent most of her time hunkered down in her dorm room, focusing on keeping her grades up, or at her job. Back on the Augustana campus in the spring, Cante’s grades improved. And just keeping to myself.”.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 5, 2022

But then came a dispiriting spring trying to stay connected to her students while Covid-19’s first wave ravaged her hometown. Not long after the meeting, Talbott, Gleghorn and other colleagues created an anti-racist working group aimed at helping the school’s teachers become more knowledgeable on subjects of race and equity.

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Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

I just stepped out of a meeting, actually, with two teachers helping them design a project that we hope will lead to the building of a food truck. I’m pulled in a hundred different directions, whether it’s representing [the district] at regional events, putting out fires, or researching best practices. TR: Well, you said it!

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Company Conference Trends Outcomes 120

NeverEndingSearch

JULY 1, 2019

If you have never attended a session presented by the Justice League of EdTech Superheroes, Adam Bellow, Colleen Graves, Sherry Gick, Steve Dembo, Nicholas Provenzano, Michael Medvinsky, and friends set up a Google alert now on where to find their next presentation.

Social Media 105

Social Media Libraries Conference OER 105

Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

What began as a single meeting of 12 people at Harrington Park has grown into a regular gathering of more than 50 educators. In collaboration with EdSurge, Northern Ignite hosted an event with 700 attendees at Ramapo College that exposed educators to both the edtech and edtech venture capital worlds.

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Edcamps STEM Industry Groups 175

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 16, 2020

By the time I met Pierre-Floyd, I’d talked to dozens of students who said the white educators were well-meaning but often expected black kids to enroll at majority-white colleges and meet white ideals of success. You meet people you didn’t know before.”. Pierre-Floyd is different. She didn’t want to take her students to Amsterdam. “How

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 16, 2018

At several Ivy League schools like Dartmouth and other elite colleges, more students come from families in the top 1 percent of the income scale than from the entire bottom 60 percent; children of top earners are 77 times more likely to attend an elite college. Related: Ivy-League Degree: Now what? “I Where is New Hampshire, anyway?

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2016

When I included for-profit higher ed as one of last year’s “ Top Ed-Tech Trends ,” I suggested that, despite predictions that “ the for-profit-education bubble is deflating ” and despite events like the closure of Corinthian Colleges, it was unclear to me that we were really witnessing a collapse of the industry.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 17, 2017

I’ve also written a separate article listing some of the various events that happened in the for-profit college industry this year – closures, lawsuits, sales, and the like. No taking a four-week course and passing it off as an Ivy League degree. Looking at you, Sebastian Gorka , deputy assistant to President Trump.)

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Robotics MOOC Training Industry 59

Hack Education

JANUARY 12, 2017

Bob Thorpe, is proposing a far-reaching law in Arizona, House Bill 2120, banning virtually every college event, activity or course which discusses social justice , skin privilege, or racial equality. ” Via the ABA Journal : “ Charlotte School of Law students reportedly will receive spring loan money.”

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MOOC Education Robotics Report 40

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Last spring, she started becoming more political in her talks, especially about the dangers of staying silent when others are scapegoated. The Holocaust is not a single event. The Holocaust is not a single event. Others say they avoid mentioning current events and hot-button topics such as implicit bias.

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