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Black America: The Power in Telling Your Story with Morgan Jerkins

by Mark Anthony Neal / 1d

'The lives and stories of women are told through their strength, resilience, beauty, character and so much more. Guest host, Magalie Laguerre-Wilkinson talks with Morgan Jerkins , Author of New York Times bestseller This Will Be My Undoing and Senior Editor of Zora ; a medium Blackpublication for women of color on the power of storytelling. Morgan Jerkins shares her stories as a writer, the Zora

AfroTech — How to Scale Access & Outcomes in Media: Erica Alexander & Tracy Oliver

by Mark Anthony Neal / 1d

' Tori Sepand , Program Manager for Inclusive Customer Experience Team with Amazon sits down with Living Single actress, Erica Alexander and writer and showrunner, Tracy Oliver to discuss how can we can scale to create the greatest impact and how that can align our collective power to create opportunity for Black professionals in the entertainment industry.' -- Blavity

Ready for Every Adventure

by Rad Power Bikessponsored

Award-winning electric bikes stacked with power, range, and comfort.

FRONTLINE: Amazon Empire — The Rise and Reign of Jeff Bezos

by Mark Anthony Neal / 1d

' An inside look at how Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos built one of the largest and most influential economic forces in the world — and the cost of Amazon’s convenience.' -- FRONTLINE PBS

Intersectionality Matters with Kimberlé Crenshaw: When They See Her — The Story of Michelle Cusseaux

by Mark Anthony Neal / 1d

'December 14th, 2019 marked the fifth anniversary of the Say Her Name campaign, a movement founded to raise awareness of the names and stories of Black women, girls and femmes killed by police, and to provide support to the families affected. The campaign has produced a groundbreaking report expanding the conversation on police violence so that it foregrounds the experiences of Black women and gi

Ebony G. Patterson . . . while the dew is still on the roses . . .

by Mark Anthony Neal / 1d

' is organized by Pérez Art Museum Miami . The exhibition is curated by Tobias Ostrander . At the Nasher Museum, this exhibition is supported by The Nancy A. Nasher and David J. Haemisegger Family Fund for Exhibitions; Fox Family Foundation; Katie Thorpe Kerr and Terrance I. R. Kerr; Lisa Lowenthal Pruzan and Jonathan Pruzan; Kelly Braddy Van Winkle and Lance Van Winkle; and Parker & Otis.'

Modern Masculinity: Six Packs, Success and Solitude — Men in the Media

by Mark Anthony Neal / 1d

'In this episode of Modern Masculinity , Guardian journalist Iman Amrani looks at how images of men in advertising and the media might be negatively impacting on how they see themselves. While campaigns targeted at women have changed hugely in the past 20 years with campaigns such as Dove's Campaign for Real Beauty changing the images of beauty for women, men's adverts haven't had the same transf

MAR 22

Almeta Ingram-Miller on The Ingramettes And The Power Of Gospel During Crisis

by Mark Anthony Neal / 5d

'NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro talks with Almeta Ingram-Miller about reforming her late mother's gospel group , the new album Take a Look in the Book and how gospel can provide comfort in times of crisis.' -- Weekend Edition Sunday

'I Always, Always Fight': Octavia Spencer On Demanding More From Hollywood

by Mark Anthony Neal / 5d

' Octavia Spencer plays businesswoman Madam C.J. Walker in a new Netflix series Self Made . Walker was born on a plantation in 1867 and built an empire selling hair and makeup products designed for black women.' -- Fresh Air

Electoral College 'Not Carved In Stone:' Author Advocates Rethinking How We Vote

by Mark Anthony Neal / 5d

'Jesse Wegman , author of Let the People Pick the President: The Case for Abolishing the Electoral College , says the Electoral College's winner-take-all rule is not mandated by the Constitution: "There's nothing keeping us from 

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THIS WEEK Education Research Report

Education Research Report

THIS WEEK 

Education Research Report

Arts education policies for all 50 states

by Jonathan Kantrowitz / 3d

This summary includes arts education policies for all 50 states, plus the District of Columbia. Complete results from this review are available in an online searchable database on the Arts Education Partnership website .

What Kids Are Reading: 2020 Edition

by Jonathan Kantrowitz / 3d

Renaissance Learning's has released , the world's largest annual survey of K–12 student reading habits! For more than a decade, What Kids Are Reading has provided educators, families, and communities unparalleled insights into students' reading habits. Based on the reading records of more than 7.6 million students—who read more than 271 million books during the last school year—the new 2020 repo

Community Research Collaboratives

by Jonathan Kantrowitz / 4d

are partnerships among community members and researchers, sometimes joined by educational institutions. These partners work together to advance equity and justice by jointly creating new knowledge, policies, and practices that promote change in educational systems and society. Community Research Collaboratives , a policy memo released today by the National Education Policy Center, describes this

U.S. Public Schools’ Use of Expulsion as a Disciplinary Action.

by Jonathan Kantrowitz / 4d

Today, the National Center for Education Statistics released a new Data Point, Expulsion from School as a Disciplinary Action . This report examines the percentage of U.S. public elementary and secondary schools allowed to remove students from school for at least the remainder of the school year, commonly known as expulsion, as a disciplinary action and the percentage of schools that used this ac

MAR 23

Teacher evaluations weed out low-performing teachers in urban schools

by Jonathan Kantrowitz / 4d

New research finds that as education policy has shifted, post-No Child Left Behind and as a result of Race to the Top (RTTT), the rollout of statewide teacher evaluation systems have proven to phase out lower performing teachers and retain more effective teachers for longer periods of time - particularly in urban districts and low-performing schools. "While we found that the rollout of a statewid

State Tools for Measuring and Improving Implementation of Response to Intervention

by Jonathan Kantrowitz / 4d

Educators in Tennessee use Response to Instruction and Intervention (RTI2), a multi-tiered system of support (MTSS), to help address problems early for students at risk for poor learning outcomes. Tennessee Department of Education officials sought to support schools and districts implementing RTI2 with a tool that educators can use to align their RTI2 implementation with the state’s expected prac

Early Childhood Education and Life-cycle Health

by Jonathan Kantrowitz / 4d

This paper forecasts the life-cycle treatment effects on health of a high-quality early childhood program. Our predictions combine microsimulation using non-experimental data with experimental data from a midlife long-term follow-up. The follow-up incorporated a full epidemiological exam. The program mainly benefits males and significantly reduces the prevalence of heart disease, stroke, cancer,

MAR 20

Exploring Equity in Students’ Postsecondary Math Pathway Choices

by Jonathan Kantrowitz / 7d

Colleges and universities around the country have been reforming their mathematics requirements, rejecting the traditional one-size-fits-all mathematics courses in favor of a range of options that align with students’ 

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