article thumbnail

Let’s invest in black kids who pursue STEM the way we do black kids on the football field

The Hechinger Report

Photo: Andre Perry for The Hechinger Report. Earlier this year, the global consulting firm McKinsey & Company released the report “ The Future of Work in Black America ,” on the potential impacts of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies and automation on specific racial groups — and it spells gloom and doom for African Americans.

STEM 139
article thumbnail

Tuesday - Pat Farenga on John Holt and Homeschooling

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

and was the Publisher of Growing Without Schooling magazine (GWS) from 1985 until it stopped publishing in Nov. Farenga also appears on local and national television and radio shows as a homeschooling expert; he has appeared on The Today Show , The Voice of America , NPR''s The Merrow Report , and CNN''s Parenting Today.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

REINVENTING.SCHOOL - Episode 8 Today, "Home as a Place for Learning" #reinventingschool

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Farenga worked closely with one of the founders of the modern homeschooling movement, the late author and teacher John Holt, and published Growing Without Schooling magazine ( GWS ) from 1985 until it stopped in 2001. GWS was the nation’s first periodical about learning without going to school, started by Holt in 1977.

article thumbnail

Using Blog Tools Since 2006

Learning With Lucie

Then in 2001, I took an assignment that took me off campus for a year to work on professional development as a lead teacher. That night each of their blogs contained so much more than progress reports. It was more of a project management tool at first. They contained reflections! It was a dream come true -- really it was.

Tools 40
article thumbnail

An upscale Florida auction yields millions for local preschool programs

The Hechinger Report

This story about preschool was produced by The Hechinger Report , a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education, in partnership with the USA TODAY NETWORK-FLORIDA and the Naples Daily News. The academy is able to provide smart boards due to funding from the Naples Winter Wine Festival.

article thumbnail

SETDA Provides Tips on Equity of Access for Students Outside of School

edWeb.net

As a result of that belief, Arthur Elementary achieved a 14-point gain on the state school report card given by the Oklahoma State Department of Education—the largest gain in the district. She holds firm to the belief that student access to technology is the great equalizer. He earned a B.S. About the Host and Sponsor.

article thumbnail

Traveling to the African Diaspora to prepare black students for college

The Hechinger Report

Photo: Casey Parks for The Hechinger Report. I’d spent the school year reporting about New Orleans, a city whose population is one-third white but whose public schools contained nearly all children of color, most of them black. She graduated from high school in 2001 as valedictorian. Photo: Casey Parks for The Hechinger Report.

Report 73