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Becoming an Anti-Racist Childhood Educator and Social Warrior

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Dr. Iheoma Iruka contended that the early childhood classroom, even with well-meaning teachers and inclusive approaches, still rests in a system that was designed to “fix” Black children assumed to not be faring as well as their white counterparts. Those things are intentional and are things we can definitely correct within the system.”.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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Via The New Yorker : “ Georgia ’s Separate and Unequal Special-Education System.” ” Also Facebook ’s DC lobbyist, Joel Kaplan, who was sitting right behind Kavanaugh as he screamed at Senators. State and Local) Education Politics. Immigration and Education. ” Education in the Courts.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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” Via Chalkbeat : “For Betsy DeVos and her former advocacy group, the future of education means ‘ personalization ,’ including virtual schools.” Via the BBC : “ Edinburgh University blames a system error for ‘failed degree’ emails.” Accreditation and Certification. inmate problem?

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

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Clickers” are definitely not new — indeed, in my research for Teaching Machines , I found examples of classroom response systems dating back to the 1950s. In 2011, Barber went to work for Pearson as its Chief Education Advisor, continuing his advocacy for competition, data collection, measurements, and standards-based reforms.

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