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Announcing the 2021-2022 League of Innovative Schools Cohort

Digital Promise

Located in Mississippi, Columbus Municipal School District is committed to advancing advocacy of learners’ parents. In April 2021, the district launched monthly parent advocacy meetings focused on restorative justice, literacy, and college and career readiness.

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10 Young People Who Changed the World to Add to Your Class Curriculum

Waterford

In 2019, Greta was named Person of the Year by Time Magazine in recognition of her work as a climate change activist. Her speech at the 2019 UN Climate Action Summit, which you can access on YouTube , is a great way to show students that everyone—even young people—can do their part to take care of our planet. Sophie Cruz. Param Jaggi.

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Going Beyond the Hour of Code

Digital Promise

an interactive collage in Scratch, a website, a mobile app, a physical computing project). See a sample letter to principal, advocacy slide deck , and additional resources. Attend the CSTA Annual Conference (July 7-10, 2019 in Phoenix, AZ). Include CS projects in your menu of product options (e.g.,

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With New Scorecard, Group Seeks Promises That Colleges Won’t Use Facial Recognition on Campus

Edsurge

More than 40 colleges have said they do not use facial recognition technology on campus and stated they have no plans to do so, according to a new “ scorecard ” published Tuesday by an advocacy campaign titled Ban Facial Recognition on Campus. So far, more than 30 of the contacted colleges have yet to respond or have declined to comment.

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OPINION: If we don’t act quickly, the student loan default system could plunge more families into poverty

The Hechinger Report

It is especially abhorrent that a government program intended to create equitable opportunities for all students instead perpetuates racial and economic gaps in financial stability and mobility. Michele Streeter is the associate director of Policy and Advocacy at The Institute for College Access & Success.

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Trying to improve remote learning? A refugee camp offers some surprising lessons

The Hechinger Report

The program operates in what she calls a “mobile-first environment,” meaning 90 percent of the program is taught on a phone, even though classes are in-person. For example, the focus of last summer’s global virtual camp was leadership and advocacy through the power of storytelling.

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A Thinking Person’s Guide to EdTech News (2017 Week 34 Edition)

Doug Levin

I recently revisited the central prediction of the influential 2008 book, Disrupting Class – that the growth in computer-based delivery of education will accelerate swiftly until, by 2019, half of all high school classes will be taught over the Internet – in two blog posts ( here and here ).

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