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Duke University Hispanic & Latino Alumni Association presents "Latinx Voices: Climate Change Up Close," Zoom Event on Thursday, April 29, 2021, 7PM - 8PM ET

Educators and historians want politics kept out of new history and civics initiative In the months since Noem announced her civics and history proposal, the volatility of proposing a new statewide initiative was made clear as criticism arose on several fronts. Written By: Bart Pfankuch / South Dakota News Watch | 2:51 pm, Apr. 15, 2021 × The burial of Native Americans killed by U.S. troops at Wounded Knee, South Dakota in 1890 is one of the events that some state historia...

/PRNewswire/ -- SynED, a national non-profit focused on education, today released ReportOUT, a quarterly publication that highlights innovative educational...

Educators, historians and some elected officials are urging South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem and the state Department of Education to keep politics and personal bias out of the process to develop a new and enhanced civics and history education program for public K-12 schools across the state. In her State of the State speech in January, the governor proposed one-time funding to enhance and expand teaching of civics and history in public schools, and the state Legislature approved her $900,000 requ...

Educational programs are crucial to the rehabilitation of incarcerated people. Studies have shown pursing an education in prison drops recidivism rates by 43 percent. For every dollar spent on prison education, give dollars is saved on costs of reincarceration. These programs have been shuttered across the country due to the Covid-19 pandemic. CBSN Bay Area's Emily Turner spoke with Shaheen Pasha of the Prison Journalism Project, Jody Lewen, president of Mt. Tamalpais and Marcus Blevins, wh...

Battle Ground schools to try levy again Published: February 24, 2021, 3:02pm Share: A sign advocating for a "yes" vote on an upcoming Battle Ground school levy in front of a home on Northeast 117th Avenue near Prairie High School. What are Battle Ground Public Schools’ next steps when it comes to its replacement levy that failed during February’s special election? For starters, the district plans to run the levy again in 2021, but a date is still to be determined. At last week’s spec...

Luna Shamsuddoha, a leading software entrepreneur in the country, passed away at Mount Elizabeth Hospital in Singapore yesterday. The 67-year-old entrepreneur was receiving treatment for cancer at the hospital. Her elder brother Zulfiquar Rahman confirmed it to The Daily Star. Luna was the chairperson of Dohatec New Media, a leading IT, and software company. According to

(Brookhaven National Laboratory/EurekAlert!)  Research solves longstanding problem and opens path for growing crops to produce industrially important high-value fatty acids — Hundreds of naturally occurring specialty fatty acids (building blocks of oils) have potential for use as raw materials for making lubricants, plastics, pharmaceuticals, and more–if they could be produced at large scale by crop plants. But attempts to put genes for making these specialty building blocks into crops ha...

Report OUT Vol 8 "COVID-19 has amplified existing problems in our community and in education, but we should be excited by the fact innovation has suddenly moved from the margins to the center of many education systems," said Guy Smith, Executive Editor, ReportOUT. Mr. Smith, a former faculty member at Antioch University who also previously served as the Dean of Educational Programs at Santa Barbara City College, continued: "Another lesson from the pandemic is that we can operate smarter at a nu...

Interns contributed to aerosol modeling research to better understand airborne virus DOE/Brookhaven National Laboratory When Cathrine Hamilton and Alison Robey, fall interns at the U.S. Department of Energys Brookhaven National Laboratory, first signed on to collaborate with their mentor Laura Fierce, an associate scientist in the Environmental and Climate Sciences Department, they didnt imagine they would be contributing to widespread research tackling the COVID-19 pandemic. Instead of collabo...