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Don’t Call Them Test Companies: How the College Board and ACT Have Shifted Focus

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The group calls the new tool the Environmental Context Dashboard, and its goal is to help college admissions officials put an applicant’s SAT score in perspective by showing whether the students come from a place of hardship or relative advantage. Over the past several years, we have transformed what we offer students and educators.

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University Data Science Programs Turn to Ethics and the Humanities

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Data scientist Mark Madsen has been programming and crunching data long before buzzwords like artificial intelligence and machine learning were common. Very few of them had any interest in interdisciplinary programs,” is how he remembers it. So when the field really started expanding around 2010, Madsen, who works near Portland, Ore.,

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Library 2.0 Mini-Conference on "Mental Health and Wellbeing" - 1300 Signups Already, Call for Proposals Now Open

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

We are encouraging conference session submissions that focus on programs and initiatives supporting staff, team, leadership, and organizational health and wellness. Participants are encouraged to use #library2023 and #librarymentalhealthandwellness on their social media posts about the event.

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Announcing the First Library 2.023 Mini-Conference: "Mental Health and Wellness: Library Workers Thriving in Uncertain Times"

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

We are encouraging conference session submissions that focus on programs and initiatives supporting staff, team, leadership, and organizational health and wellness. Participants are encouraged to use #library2023 and #librarymentalhealthandwellness on their social media posts about the event.

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Activists question whether wealthy universities should be exempt from property taxes

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When the University of Pennsylvania said it would pay $10 million a year for 10 years to address environmental hazards in Philadelphia’s public schools, Gerald Campano’s reaction was complicated. “Of But charity is not the same as social and racial justice.”. million to Boston in 2019.

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Apple Shows What Chicago Students Can Do With Just 6 Weeks of Code

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The students were part of One Summer Chicago , a public-private partnership program that provides 32,000 Chicago youth, between the ages of 14 to 24, with paid summer jobs and internships. We wanted to be on the cutting edge of programming for our youth,” Warren said. We aren’t just teaching kids to build software.

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Final Call! Library 2.0 "Mental Health and Wellness" Mini-Conference - Proposals Submissions Ending

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

We are encouraging conference session submissions that focus on programs and initiatives supporting staff, team, leadership, and organizational health and wellness. Participants are encouraged to use #library2023 and #librarymentalhealthandwellness on their social media posts about the event.