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+14 +2Former teacher raises $31K to add diverse books to classrooms
A retired Lakewood Public Schools teacher is using her free time to raise money to add more diverse books to the district’s classrooms. Starting in July 2020, Libby Kinsey and her husband, Jim, took on the task of diversifying children’s books in a predominantly white community. Their purpose is to make the world better for everyone starting at a young age.
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+9 +1This teenager thinks Australia's sex ed curriculum should be more sex positive
A national survey indicates nearly half of all Year 10-12s (15-18 year-olds) have had sex, but experts say sex ed in Australia is a "mixed bag". Is our curriculum too focused on "bugs and babies and bodies"?
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+16 +1Surge of Student Suicides Pushes Las Vegas Schools to Reopen
The reminders of pandemic-driven suffering among students in Clark County, Nev., have come in droves. Since schools shut their doors in March, an early-warning system that monitors students’ mental health episodes has sent more than 3,100 alerts to district officials, raising alarms about suicidal thoughts, possible self-harm or cries for care. By December, 18 students had taken their own lives.
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+3 +1Children can improve memory by imagining future tasks
Elementary-aged children often have issues with memory tasks, since they are still developing their cognitive abilities. But new research has determined for the first time that children improved their prospective memory when they were encouraged to both imagine completing tasks ahead of time and predict their performance.
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+22 +2Malware found on laptops given out by government
Suspicious files contacting Russian servers are thought to have been found on devices given to schools.
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+13 +3Free college could become a reality under a Biden administration
President-elect Biden promised to make community college tuition-free. Such a plan could increase the number of students and their incomes over time.
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+12 +1NYC Must Face Suit to Provide Wi-Fi to More Than 100,000 Homeless Kids Learning Remotely, Judge Rules
New York City has an estimated 114,000 homeless children, many of whom have had to adapt to an age of virtual learning during the COVID-19 pandemic in shelters with no internet access. That could change soon thanks to a federal ruling on Wednesday advancing a putative class action lawsuit that would force the city to connect these students online.
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+3 +1Entire Computer Science Curriculum in 1000 YouTube Videos
In this article, we are going to create an entire Computer Science curriculum using only YouTube videos. The Computer Science curriculum is going to cover every skill essential for a Computer Science Engineer that has expertise in Artificial Intelligence and its subfields, like: Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Computer Vision, NLP, etc.
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+17 +3NYC is Paying $2 Million For Anti-Plagiarism Software After Firing Teachers
Earlier this month, more than 1,000 educators and students at City University of New York institutions petitioned their board of trustees to not renew its contract with the anti-plagiarism software company Turnitin. The board ultimately voted unanimously, with the student senate representative abstaining, to renew Turnitin’s five-year contract for nearly $2 million. Five months earlier, CUNY had laid off nearly 3,000 adjunct faculty and part-time employees as a result of budget shortfalls. (The college system’s chancellor has pushed back against that characterization).
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+18 +1A route-map for retraining workers
Companies often want to keep loyal employees when their jobs change or go away. What are the most effective ways to move people onto a new career path?
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+3 +1Elon Musk on the problem with corporate America: ‘Too many MBAs’
Tesla and SpaceX founder Elon Musk says the biggest problem with corporate America today is that too many business school graduates are running the show. “I think that there might be too many MBAs running companies,” Musk said Tuesday at the WSJ CEO Summit.
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+12 +2Looking for a job? This university shared its database with thousands of remote job openings
California State University, East Bay published a public database of remote job vacancies across the country to help people struggling to find employment due to the pandemic. In a press release last week, the university said it wants to help "pull the rising unemployment level in the country back to its normal level."
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+18 +4Dr. Dre Boasts About Daughter Getting Into USC ‘All on Her Own,’ Then Remembers $70 Million Donation
Dr. Dre’s attempt to throw shade on the recent celebrity college admissions scandals backfired after he apparently belatedly realized that he’d donated $70 million to the college his daughter, Truly, is attending.
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+1 +112 Money Lessons That Need To Be Taught In Schools
While financial literacy continues to be a hot topic and some schools are implementing some education around money, we as a nation are still slacking.
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+13 +212-year-old boy genius accepted at Georgia Tech, has dreams of going to Mars
Caleb could read at 6 months old. He started taking college classes at the age of 10.
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+18 +2These Stanford students are racing to get laptops to kids around the U.S. who most need them
The digital divide is not a new phenomenon. Still, it largely took Americans by surprise when, as the U.S. began to shut down to slow the spread of Covid-19 in March, schools grappled with how to move forward with online classes. It wasn’t just a matter of altering students’ curriculum. Many lacked either internet access or home computers — and some lacked both. According to USAFacts, a non-partisan organization funded by former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, 4.4 million households with children have not had consistent access to computers for online learning during the pandemic.
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+2 +1"To Kill a Mockingbird," other books banned from California schools over racism concerns
Mark Twain's "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" and Mildred D. Taylor's 'Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry" among other books banned.
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+28 +6Cheating-detection companies made millions during the pandemic. Now students are fighting back.
When North Carolina A&T State University junior Arielle G. Brown took her International Marketing exam in September, a cheating-detection program analyzed her behavior through a computer webcam the entire time. After the test, her associate professor fired off a furious email ripping into her class for some “negative behavior” the software had flagged.
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+4 +1"To Kill a Mockingbird," other books banned from California schools over racism concerns
Mark Twain's "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" and Mildred D. Taylor's 'Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry" among other books banned.
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+19 +4The No-Code Generation is arriving
In the distant past, there was a proverbial “digital divide” that bifurcated workers into those who knew how to use computers and those who didn’t.[1] Young Gen Xers and their later millennial companions grew up with Power Macs and Wintel boxes, and that experience made them native users on how to make these technologies do productive work.
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