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"Mental Health and Wellness" Topic Survey for Loida Garcia-Febo Library 2.0 Webinar Series + Free Webinar

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Garcia-Febo is worldwide known for her passion about diversity, communities, sustainability, innovation and digital transformation, library workers, library advocacy, wellness for library workers, and new librarians about which she has taught in 44 countries. President of the American Library Association 2018-2019.

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Global Leadership Week - Information and Schedule

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This is a free, live video event with Sean Maguire of Plan International, a global advocacy organization dedicated to children's rights. All we ask is that you contribute to the discussion through commenting, completing the survey or sharing using the #wihea tag in any social media posts. Free and open to the public.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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“Over 20 advocacy groups complain to FTC that YouTube is violating children’s privacy law ,” Techcrunch reports. could see a shortage of up to 120,000 physicians by 2030, according to a report published Wednesday by the Association of American Medical Colleges,” Inside Higher Ed reports. ” Indeed.

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Is California saving higher education?

The Hechinger Report

California students spend an average of $2,020 a month, or $18,180 per nine-month academic year , on food, housing, books, supplies and transportation, a survey released in September by the California Student Aid Commission, or CSAC, found. Lumina is among the many funders of The Hechinger Report, which co-produced this story.).

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The 2019 Global Education Conference - Full List of 130 Sessions and 10 Keynotes!

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Dana is an Ashoka Fellow, was named one of The New Leaders Council’s 40 under 40 Progressive American Leaders, and was winner of the Tides Foundation’s Jane Bagley Lehman award for excellence in public advocacy in 2014. Dr. Beate W. Nguyen, Principal + Global Scholar-Practitioner, Archdiocese of Los Angeles/St.

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10 years later, goal of getting more Americans through college is way behind schedule

The Hechinger Report

Three out of four community college leaders said in a survey by the Education Policy Center at the University of Alabama that plans do not exist in their states to pay for increasing the number of adults with certificates and associate degrees. And for the most part, that has not happened. In many states it’s going in the wrong direction.”.

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America’s schools are crumbling. Fixing them could save lives (and the planet)

The Hechinger Report

million homes, according to the climate advocacy organization Generation180. Thomas, the trade union rep, said most problems found by the workers surveying airflow in Seattle-area schools are easily fixed. The district has committed to transitioning to clean electricity by 2030 and to becoming carbon neutral by 2040.

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