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fromwww.cbc.ca
5 days ago

Ontario's Grade 10 financial literacy test could discourage teens' interest in personal finances: experts | CBC News

Ontario's financial literacy graduation requirement, including a mandatory 70% test in Grade 10 math, may discourage students and overlook low-income experiences.
Austin
fromAustin Monitor
1 week ago

More than 2,000 Austin-area kids will get free or low-cost after-school care this year - Austin Monitor

Travis County funded free or low-cost after-school programs at 27 schools serving over 2,000 disadvantaged pre-K and elementary students after a 2024 tax increase.
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Education
fromEpicenter NYC
1 month ago

A new project helping Asian American students diversify NYC's school curriculum - Epicenter NYC

Efforts are underway to create an AANHPI history curriculum for New York City schoolchildren.
fromBlack Enterprise
1 month ago

Black Student Enrollment Shrinks At NYC's Top High Schools

Black student admissions to NYC's selective high schools, like Stuyvesant, are drastically low, raising concerns about diversity and educational equity.
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 months ago

Fewer pupils in less affluent English schools taking languages, survey finds

Ministers must make access to language learning a national priority, after research showed that children from more deprived areas of England are disproportionately denied the opportunity to learn a foreign language.
Education
fromWashington Post
3 years ago

D.C.'s struggle to hire more diverse teachers - and keep them

"This gap should matter to us as it matters to the students who walk into the school every single day...how many stories our Latinx students and their families would be empowered to tell if there were more Latinx teachers to tell them to."
Education
fromwww.mercurynews.com
3 months ago

Latest line: A good week for Jennifer Doudna, a bad week for Maria Su

Jennifer Doudna, who won the Nobel Prize in 2020 for her groundbreaking work in gene-editing, continues to be recognized, now with a supercomputer named after her at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab.
Silicon Valley
Social justice
fromAdvocate.com
4 months ago

From Roe to woes, the days SCOTUS hit 'undo' on half a century of progress

The Supreme Court's decisions significantly impact women's rights and affirmative action, altering the landscape of education and equality in the U.S.
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