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Inside Canada’s 50-year fight for national child care

The Hechinger Report

dollars) over five years to the country’s first federally-funded child care system. The new system aims to provide child care for an average of $10 a day in licensed settings, with plans to create an additional 250,000 spots for children by 2026. Now, an offshoot of that recommendation has come to fruition.

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OPINION: Left out: Dreamers miss too may education opportunities that could change their lives

The Hechinger Report

Too often, though, that advocacy for the future overshadows immediate opportunities to expand Dreamers’ college access despite state and local policies. Too often, advocacy for the future overshadows immediate opportunities to expand Dreamers’ college access. Advocating for policy change is essential.

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This Is Your Brain on Math: The Science Behind Culturally Responsive Instruction

Edsurge

A 2018 meta-analysis of functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) studies of children ages 14 and younger demonstrated that math performance in children emerges from areas of the brain that are associated with number processing, such as the parietal and frontal areas.

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OPINION: We need more problem solvers and critical thinkers for an increasingly complex world

The Hechinger Report

The rigid structure of the traditional K-12 education system leaves little room for students to engage in real-world problem-solving scenarios. One professor reached out to tell me how impressed he was by the self-advocacy that students from our district demonstrated.

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Homeless Students Are Missing School. Does Having a Separate School for Them Help or Hurt?

Edsurge

That means building a standalone community because, she says, it’s hard for students who don’t have homes to be themselves in the mainstream American school system. That includes Barbara Duffield, executive director of SchoolHouse Connection, a nonprofit focused on homeless education advocacy.

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Epilepsy Foundation Partners with Vector Solutions to Offer Seizure First Aid Trainings to Educators

eSchool News

. “In addition, it will expand access to our seizure first aid training to school systems around the country using Vector’s platform. ” In 2018, Kentucky led the charge to pass the nation’s first-ever law requiring school personnel to complete seizure recognition and first aid training.

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If we don’t engage online, we cede mindshare to others who will

Dangerously Irrelevant

But for those of us who want our ideas to spread and who actually want to influence practicing educators and educational systems, participating in these online spaces is critically important. They are great models for how to use social media in empowered ways for research dissemination, policy advocacy, and educational impact.