The CAL Awards Finalists in General Nonfiction are Culturally Responsive Reading: Teaching Literature for Social Justice by Durthy A. Washington, Photography and Schizophrenia by Jean Manthei, and Grace in the Wound: Finding Hope in Long-Term Grief by Kathleen Hendricks. Congrats!
#calawards #nonfiction #educaton #grief #photography #booksbooksbooks

Excited to share! Just posted to my professional Instagram, showcasing pictures, thoughts, and experiences in education on a local level.

How do YOU connect with colleagues, parents, etc. digitally? #teachersofinstagram #educaton #edtech

Is it just me or is this a major scandal and waste of money the DfE seems remarkably relaxed about?
The Harlow school alone is £26 million to demolish and replace, one of five around the country. And that before you start looking at other departments. Yet there appears to be no word of pursuing the directors for what feels a bit like fraud.
DfE reviewing all Caledonian Modular work over safety fears | Construction News
#Educaton #GovermentFailure #DfE #Construction
https://www.constructionnews.co.uk/health-and-safety/dfe-reviewing-all-caledonian-modular-work-over-safety-fears-24-08-2023/#:~:text=They%20said%20there%20were%20%E2%80%9Cnumerous,they%20were%20safe%20to%20occupy.
DfE reviewing all Caledonian Modular work over safety fears | Construction News

The Department for Education (DfE) says it is reviewing all work carried out by Caledonian Modular after three schools it delivered have had to be closed

Construction News
Beyond the “Are you good witch or a bad witch?” argument … is #AI a gateway to a whole new kind of #educaton for #students in how to be human? https://www.gettingsmart.com/2023/11/28/what-educators-and-families-should-prioritize-in-the-age-of-ai/
What Educators and Families Should Prioritize in the Age of AI

As technological breakthroughs, analytic methods, and artificial intelligence (AI) rapidly redefine what it means to be educated, they correspondingly transform how we can measure and inform learning and development.

Getting Smart

The Government will fix this by getting rid of Council mentained schools...

After all it's more important Academy Operators makes money than boring stuff like quality of education for plebs.
#Educaton #gtto
Council-maintained schools in England outperforming academies in Ofsted ratings | Ofsted | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/education/2023/aug/03/council-maintained-schools-in-england-outperforming-academies-in-ofsted-ratings

Council-maintained schools in England outperforming academies in Ofsted ratings

Research for Local Government Association renews questions over government’s ‘academisation’ policy

The Guardian
Denying children educational opportunities and creating a school to prison pipeline? "The Houston Independent School District confirmed Tuesday that the 28 schools that are under the New Education System will no longer have dedicated librarians. Also, some of the libraries at the NES campuses will be repurposed into "team centers" where students who had to be removed from class due to behavioral issues will be placed to watch their class virtually. #educaton https://www.khou.com/article/news/education/hisd-removes-librarians-nes-schools/285-07457e23-9791-4cc5-8250-05569394b48c
Show me you don't understand the value of education without saying... Oh actually you have said you don't value education.... At least for the wrong sort of people...
Sunak to force English universities to cap numbers of students on ‘low-value’ degrees | Students | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/education/2023/jul/14/rishi-sunak-force-english-universities-cap-low-value-degrees
#gtto #Educaton
Sunak to force English universities to cap numbers of students on ‘low-value’ degrees

Exclusive: Move penalises courses with a high proportion of working-class or minority ethnic students, critics say

The Guardian
Biomimicry and educational innovation, do 31 aug. 2023 19:00 | Meetup

In this session Ir. Erik Mols is going to explain how biomimicry can play a role in innovation of education. By doing this we of course have to explore innovation and biomi

Meetup
I’ve spent the past two days devouring Grasp by Sanjay Sarma and @LukeYoquinto. Thank you for this wonderful, insightful, and useful book! @edutooters @edutooter #educaton #schools #teachers
As of January 2021, 37.9 million Americans lived in #poverty, accounting for 11.6% of the total population, according to the latest report from the United States Census Bureau. That’s despite the fact that America ranks first as the #richest #nation in the #world in terms of GDP. https://www.cnbc.com/2023/03/07/why-poverty-might-be-far-worse-in-the-us-than-its-reported.html #economy #wealth #FoodInsecurity #housing #educaton #Healthcare #wealthdivide
37.9 million Americans are living in poverty, according to the U.S. Census. But the problem could be far worse.

The official poverty measure in the U.S. is based on calculations from the mid-1960s.

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