The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 30, 2018

We have to engage in a movement,” Susan Patrick, CEO of the nonprofit advocacy group known as iNACOL (International Association for K-12 Online Learning), told the cheering crowd of 3,000 true believers. Along with objections to that, many complaints arose that the state provided no clear guidelines for the transition.

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NeverEndingSearch

JULY 21, 2021

Is that academic leadership and advocacy being spread those through universities to their school librarian alumni? Is there an infiltration of leadership and advocacy coming from those universities that also helps to encourage school librarian employment in those states? Ten states and D.C. have legal requirements. District Profiles.

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NeverEndingSearch

JUNE 19, 2020

After seeing Cathi’s message on the Future Ready Librarians’ Facebook Group , librarian Kim Borden, from the Penn Argyl (PA) School District, responded to the call. Kim shared that she and her colleagues often describe advocacy in the context of the neverending burden of Sysyphus. Lady Gaga is always right.

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Libraries Elementary Future Ready Advocacy 118

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Just this year, politicians in Florida banned content and curriculum referencing LGBTQ+ lives and identities from classrooms, sparking copycat “Don’t Say Gay” legislation across the country. These platforms, now part of our daily lives, have the power to reach young people where traditional education may fail.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 29, 2017

Nor has it stopped Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg from making “personalized learning” a centerpiece of his venture philanthropy firm’s education work or from vowing to spend hundreds of millions of dollars on it. Whatever “it” is. So is “personalized learning” really a “trend”?

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 1, 2017

In the 2015-16 school year, none of the social studies textbooks listed for use in the state’s fourth grade classroom was published before 2005. The Civil Rights Movement was once a footnote in Mississippi social studies classrooms, if it was covered at all. Photo: Terrell Clark for The Hechinger Report.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 2, 2017

A study by George Washington University’s Center on Education Policy found that between 2001 and 2007, 36 percent of districts decreased elementary classroom time spent on social studies, including civics – a drop that most affected underfunded schools serving working-class, poor, rural, and inner-city kids."

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