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Fresh Food, Dance Class, and Nap Mats: What's Lost Without Federal Money for Child Care

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In August 2019, she opened Miss Tiffany’s Early Childhood Education House, a child care center run in her home in Weirton, West Virginia. Her advocacy has started to take on a larger role in her life: She recently accepted a position as the executive director for the West Virginia Women’s Alliance.

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A Faculty-Led Fund Gets Cash to Struggling Students, Fast

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This week, the FAST Fund named its 2019-2020 cohort: professors Ryan Gamba of California State University at East Bay, Karr? One guideline: The funds are not intended to reward students who earn the best grades. The committee spread word of the resources within the developmental learning and student advocacy departments.

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The community college “segregation machine”

The Hechinger Report

The California Acceleration Project, an advocacy group founded by faculty, reported that pass rates for underprepared students at Cuyamaca in college-level math jumped to 67 percent last year, up from 10 percent the year before. He is on track to pass them all, even with his heavy workload at UPS, and hopes to earn his degree in 2019.

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Effective Technology Professional Learning: Leading and Collaborating to Assure Success

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Critical guidelines that can lead to successful and sustainable professional learning include specific content areas focus, opportunities for teachers to engage in hands-on learning, and professional learning experiences connected daily with classrooms. Marlo Gaddis is the chief technology officer for the Wake County Public School System.

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What?s New: New Tools for Schools

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The software takes advantage of Casio’s Natural Display technology for input and output of mathematical expressions. iKeepSafe conducted a thorough manual and technical review of ClassFlow to assess its compliance with iKeepSafe Privacy Assessment guidelines. CASIO CLASSPAD.NET ( classpad.net ) Casio’s ClassPad.

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Educators: We Must Be Champions for Our Trans Students

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A 2019 report administered by GLSEN , an organization working to end discrimination against LGBTQIA+ people in schools, found that 40 percent of Texas LGBTQIA+ students regularly hear teachers make negative comments about gender expression. Testify before your local school board, your state’s board of education and your state legislatures.

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Are we ready? How we are teaching – and not teaching – kids about climate change

The Hechinger Report

High school students have become an increasing force in climate change activism; in 2019, hundreds of thousands of young people skipped school and took to the streets to protest the climate crisis in a global strike. Credit: Courtesy of Beatriz López. The middle school standards do not mention climate change or global warming.

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