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Unlocking Advocacy: The Critical Role Teachers Can Play in Shaping Education Policy

American Consortium for Equity in Education

In the American education system, legislatures make the laws that govern education in their states. By Patrick Brennan, Vice President of Government Relations, Learning Ally Listen to his podcast episode on the topic here.

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Here’s How Modern Data Management Platforms Help K-12 Schools Get Work Done

EdTech Magazine

School systems are swimming in valuable data that potentially could be used to support students,” says Susan Bearden, former director of digital programs for InnovateEDU, a nonprofit educational organization that is home to the data advocacy group Project Unicorn.

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Are Latino ‘Systems of Knowledge’ Missing From Education Technology?

Edsurge

And then when you go into more affluent communities or communities where there's stronger advocacy, you're gonna see projects and you're gonna see stories and you're gonna see kids sharing their own voices. “And we're gonna see, unfortunately, a lot of spreadsheets that have numbers and yellow and red cells,” Gonzalez says.

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What America can learn from Canada’s new ‘$10 a Day’ child care system

The Hechinger Report

This idea — that parents should pay an average of $10 a day for child care and that public funds should underwrite child care programs — is now a cornerstone of a new national child care system rolling out across the country. In 2021, the country’s leaders committed $30 billion (about $24 billion in U.S.

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A Tale of Two American Education Systems: An Edtech Investor’s Perspective

Edsurge

In 2017, 53 percent of the students in the K-12 public education system in the United States were Black, Latinx, Asian/Pacific Islander, Indigenous or multiracial. Only 60 percent of these families had access to computers or broadband internet at home. As a result, white students take AP Computer Science in high school at nearly 2.4

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OPINION: If we don’t act quickly, the student loan default system could plunge more families into poverty

The Hechinger Report

These measures are not only punitive, they’re also self-defeating: By undermining someone’s ability to cover basic expenses, return to school, keep their job or even drive a car, the student loan default system makes it harder for someone who is already struggling to secure their financial footing. Families cannot afford to wait.

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An Accidental, Systematic Attack on OER Sustainability Models

Iterating Toward Openness

An Accidental, Systematic Attack on OER Sustainability Models Whether they realize it or not, advocates are targeting the sustainability models of both the ecosystem-level OER creators (like OpenStax) through their advocacy for ZTC policies and the institution-level OER creators (like Kansas State) through their more recent rulemaking advocacy.

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