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Deseret News Here’s why data and dialogue are the key to improving equity, diversity and inclusion Utah is now a midsized state with strong global connectivity, population diversity and urban challenges, such as housing affordability, air quality and congestion Share this story Carol Matthews-Shifflett gives an elbow bump to Emma Houston, Salt Lake County Government Human Resources training development facilitator and former director of the Salt Lake County Office of Diversity and Inclusion, ...

By iHeartMedias Corey Olson Apr 30, 2021 Liberal bias has been running rampant on college campuses for years, but one state is trying to give students the chance to fight back. Florida lawmakers are considering a bill to allow students to record their professors in class to expose possible bias. The bill would allow in-class recordings to be used in civil or criminal complaints, or for use by schools to determine if there is bias in the classroom. But it would not allow the recordings to be...

A Teacher’s View: What Policymakers And The Public Don’t Understand About Reopening Schools Patch 2/24/2021 In summary By the time the safety recommendations are implemented and running smoothly, the school year will be ending. By Glenn Sacks, Special to CalMatters Glenn Sacks teaches Social Studies in the Los Angeles Unified School District, glenn@glennsacks.com. Teachers unions are under attack, as our well-founded concern for our students, their families, and yes, ourselves, is being p...

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Government Schools: More Bureaucracy, Lower Performance, And Higher Costs  Share   Share Trending Whenever I’m asked to give an example of a powerful and persuasive visual, I always have an easy answer. The late Andrew Coulson created a very compelling chart showing that huge increases in money and staff for government schools have not led to improvements in educational outcomes. All rational people who look at that image surely will understand that we’re doing something wrong. And if t...

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February 8, 2021 Parents normally send their children to school (or park them at the computer for pretend school) to learn academic disciplines, including English, math, science, and history. But in most public and some private schools, more and more time is being redirected from academic instruction to “social-emotional learning” (SEL)—the cultivation not of knowledge but of the “correct” attitudes, beliefs, opinions, and behaviors. If this weren’t worrisome enough to parents who t...

President Biden speaks on racial equity before signing executive orders. For years, researchers and higher education advocates have been frustrated by the lack of good Education Department data on how students of color and those with lower incomes are being let down by the nation’s higher education system. “It’s hard to solve racial equity problems if you can’t see them,” said Clare McCann, deputy director for federal higher education policy at the progressive think tank New America, ...

Former education secretary Betsy DeVos What’s perhaps most telling about Betsy DeVos’s contentious tenure as education secretary, before her resignation last week, is the legacy she’ll leave behind for colleges. There likely won’t be one, in a matter of months or at most a couple of years. For DeVos, a longtime champion of the rights of parents to send students to the K-12 school of their choosing, higher education hasn’t been a focus during her time in office. “Secretary DeVos had ...

A pair of education scholars recently described the three principles they want to see guide conservative education policy. Michael McShane of EdChoice and…