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New Advocacy Campaign Calls for Banning Facial Recognition on College Campuses.

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Indeed, last week saw the launch of “ Ban Facial Recognition on Campus ,” a nationwide campaign from the nonprofit advocacy organizations Fight for the Future and Students for Sensible Drug Policy. These advocacy efforts in K-12 schools, she adds, may have influenced the new college campaign. We already know how to make change here.”

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Quiet In The Classroom: How To Recognize And Support Introverted Entrepreneurs

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How to Recognize and Encourage Your Young Introverted Entrepreneur at Home. Advocate: Young introverts need parental advocacy for public school. Far too often, in my life as a parent and educator, I’ve listened to parents who have strong concerns about reserved children.

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Teaching Must Get More Flexible Before It Falls Apart

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How could school work if teachers only taught 4 days out of a 5 day school week? At secondary schools, we’d have to toss out 5-day-per-week class rotations. It can’t come at a cost to students; but if we don’t figure out how to do it, the cost may be the teaching profession as we know it. So let’s imagine.

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Transforming Reading Instruction to Include the Science of Reading

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Thompson has found that leadership can take many forms and work on multiple levels, and the transformation process works best when there is a unified movement toward a shared vision, which includes the development of professional relationships, growth as a team, and collective advocacy based on dialogue and collaboration. Moving Forward.

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What Does It Take to Put Inclusive Curriculum Legislation Into Practice?

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The state partnered with Asian Americans Advancing Justice Chicago (AAAJ Chicago) — a local advocacy organization focused on advancing civil rights and racial equity, which advocated for the passage of the TEAACH Act — to support implementation. After facilitating each PD session, Hurh sends out a survey to attendees.

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The Awkward Truth About ‘Free College’—It Isn’t Truly Free

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The challenge in presenting a program as ‘free’ is it may cause people to underestimate the full cost of attendance,” said Carrie Welton, director of policy and advocacy at the Hope Center for College, Community, and Justice, in an interview with EdSurge. So therefore, institutions must learn how to serve those students better.”

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Kids with disabilities blocked from bilingual programs

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But Paul Aguiar, director of the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education’s Office of Language Acquisition, said his office routinely fields questions from districts about whether they can keep students with disabilities out of such programs. At Sarah Greenwood, school leaders have resisted López’s advocacy for years.