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Why America Needs More Black Male Teachers

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Their poignant voices were published a joint white paper entitled, “ Having Our Say: Examining Career Trajectories of Black Male Educators in P-12 Education.” While the paper spotlighted their valuable insights, observations and opinions, voices alone won’t increase the representation of Black males in the classroom.

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After Transforming a College With Online Offerings, a President Steps Down to Tackle AI

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But LeBlanc, who was enthusiastic about technology and had worked in edtech, made a bet that was unusual at the time: He decided to grow the university’s online offerings. And the Navy said, rightly, every time we put a ship out to sea, all of those sailors are suddenly college dropouts. It was changing our technology.

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How a Billionaire’s Fellowship Spread Skepticism About College’s Value

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By the end of the interview, Thiel asked him to help him teach a class at Stanford Law School on philosophy and technology, and he hired him as an analyst at his fund. And he wrote the white paper for it around the time of that bagel meetup for the Thiel Fellowship. Lots of people see this as a world-changing idea.

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