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Apr 16 2024
News
Chicago Latino Film Festival comes to NU to educate students of Latino culture
The Chicago Latino Film Festival is bringing Latin American culture to Northwestern through film in a two-day event Tuesday and Thursday. The film festival is a 40-year-old Chicago-based tradition that introduces new voices of Ibero-American cinema, documenting the history of its artform and encouraging cultural expression in a weeklong downtown event. Its influence spread to NU in 2018, when
Daily NorthwesternApr 16 2024
News
The WWII soldier who died fighting for the "precious ideals" of liberal arts education
There's been a ton written lately about the slow death of liberal arts education. I am a huge believer that exposure to the liberal arts is crucial — it makes individuals better and makes society better as a whole. It's how we pass on values and a common history. Without it, there's no institutional memory. There's just whatever happened a week ago, a month ago. Whatever we heard on social
Boing BoingMar 31 2024
News
Technical education programs struggle to meet demands
Ralph Conroy receives more than a half-dozen calls a month from Presque Isle-area business owners, telling him about job openings for his students to fill. The businesses have an urgent need for reliable, skilled workers, and want to hire students at Presque Isle Tech Center, where Conroy is the director. His colleagues throughout Maine’s 27 career and technical centers have the same
The Maine MonitorApr 15 2024
News
‘A new day.’ Kentucky Senate confirms education commissioner for first time
For the first time, the Kentucky Senate on Monday approved the confirmation of the state’s education commissioner. In voting for the confirmation of Lawrence County Superintendent Robbie Fletcher, Sen. Stephen West, R-Paris, head of the Senate Education Committee, called Fletcher “the Mark Pope of Kentucky Education.” He was referring to the popular, newly hired University of Kentucky men’s
Lexington Herald-LeaderMar 29 2024
News
Flood, Ruml to return to Mitchell Board of Education
Mar. 29—MITCHELL — The Mitchell Board of Education will see two incumbents return for another term on the five-person governing board. Mitchell School District officials confirmed Friday that Brittni Flood and Shawn Ruml were the only two individuals to take out and file nominating petitions for their seats on the board for the 2024 election. That means the pair will each return for another
Yahoo NewsApr 25 2024
News
Rep. Vernon G. Smith: Indiana Republican education policies have failed to address the root of our problem
Hoosier children deserve better than the education system that nearly 20 years of Republican control has left us with in Indiana. Instead of robust solutions, the legislative supermajority churns out a patchwork of special interest-backed policies year after year. While our state drops in rank when it comes to academic performance, the policies passed by the General Assembly fail to address
Chicago TribuneApr 03 2024
News
Harford County students, educators honored at Sacco Awards
The William J. Sacco Critical Thinking Foundation honored 13 high school students and nine educators from Harford County at its 13th annual awards ceremony on March 10 at The John Carroll School. Swan Creek had its first scholarship winner. The foundation gave out $12,250 in scholarships and grants. Bel Air math teacher Susan Taylor was named the 2024 Educator of the Year. She became the first
Baltimore SunApr 17 2024
News
'Know Two Protect' campaign aims to educated children, parents about dangers online
A legislative push is focusing on protecting your child's data online.
The Department of Homeland Security announced a campaign on Wednesday that aims to prevent child exploitation and abuse.
The "Know Two Protect" campaign focuses on educating children and parents about the dangers online.
The program has partnered with major sports leagues and the parent companies of
CBS News (Online)Apr 11 2024
News
How a Memphis High School Built a Model for Education From Scratch
What if high schools didn’t adhere to decades-old standardized curriculums? What if they tried something new to mirror the complexities of the real world? These are the questions the founders of Crosstown High, a public charter school in Memphis, Tennessee, asked when they initially embarked upon building a radically different type of high school in a segregated and struggling school district
BloombergApr 02 2024
Opinion
The push for bilingual education will doom migrant kids to failure
New York City, Denver, Chicago and other cities are urgently recruiting bilingual education teachers as the children of migrants enroll in school.
Bilingual ed will doom most of these kids to failure.
All too often it’s an educational ghetto, producing dropouts who can’t speak English and face a lifetime of poverty.
Non-English-speaking students should be given intense
New York Post (Opinion)