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An Illiberal Attack on Public Higher Education
Dan Patrick, the lieutenant governor of Texas, has proposed to eliminate tenure in the University of Texas system. The argument against tenure has a respectable conservative pedigree. It isn’t obvious that professors, after some years of satisfactory service, should enjoy an indefinite appointment, revokable only under extraordinary circumstances. That’s worth debating. But Patrick isn’t against…
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Leadership Atlanta’s 2023 class to feature leaders in education
By Maria Saporta On the eve of its closing weekend retreat for the Class of 2022, Leadership Atlanta on Friday announced the 86 members of the Class of 2023. Leadership Atlanta’s new class represents a broad diversity of professions – education, law, corporate, nonprofit, technology, media, healthcare, politics and government – similar to the make-up…
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Students of color in special education are less likely to get the help they need — here are 3 ways teachers can do better
Conversations around race and disability often get left out of schools. FG Trade/E+ via Getty Images When I was a special education teacher at Myrtle Grove Elementary School in Miami in 2010, my colleagues and I recommended that a Black girl receive special education services because she had difficulty reading. However, her mother disagreed. When…
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Fully funding special education will help all students
The best thing the Legislature can do with a portion of its $9 billion surplus is to fully fund special education for all schools. The annual report from the Minnesota Department of Education shows that school districts in 2020 spent $673 million from general education funds to pay for the gap, or unfunded special education…
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Here’s what the major parties need to do about higher education this election
In the lead-up to the federal election, neither of the major parties has given higher education much thought or attention. While the Coalition focuses on the military and Labor on aged care, universities continue to sweat it out after a decade of at best being ignored, and at worst being wilfully undermined by the current…
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DeSantis’s Education Department Bans 54 Math Books Over Supposed CRT Content
The Florida Department of Education announced last week that it was rejecting the use of dozens of mathematics textbooks in K-12 public schools throughout the state, ostensibly because they contained content that discussed critical race theory. When asked to provide examples, however, neither the department nor Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) would do so, in spite…
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Education Needs a Reset. We Can Start by Listening to Our Teachers.
Depending on how you look at it, Ed Secretary Miguel Cardona’s assertion that “we’re closer to a reset in education than ever before” is either a beacon of hope at the end of a long, dark tunnel, or the opening of a new front in an increasingly polarizing culture war. Because my work as CEO…
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Sandra Altiné Named Vice President, Workforce Diversity & Inclusion at Facebook – Savoy
Sandra Altiné has been named Vice President, Workforce Diversity & Inclusion at Facebook. Prior to Facebook, Altiné was the Managing Director of Global Diversity and Inclusion for Moody’s. As a member of the HR Leadership Team, she had responsibility for advancing Moody’s commitment to global diversity and inclusion. In partnership with the Moody’s Global Diversity…
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Mark Ruffalo says the Parental Rights in Education law is ‘cruel and traumatizing for children’ – twitchy.com
The last time we heard an actor weigh in on Florida’s Parental Rights in Education bill, “Star Trek: Discovery” actor Wilson Cruz tweeted that Florida had learned nothing about how to prevent another Pulse Nightclub massacre, which by the way was carried about by an Islamic extremist who didn’t even know it was a gay…