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Education for Emancipation: Building the Tools We Need

NonProfit Quarterly

Image credit: Francesco Ungaro on pexels.com Nearly all grassroots groups agree that education about the economy is essential. But rarely is education treated as urgent. Without sufficient movement education, we are unprepared for the moments when windows of opportunity for significant social change arise.

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Teaching Cooperative Intelligence, for a Solidarity Economy

NonProfit Quarterly

But to build cooperative intelligence, cooperative education needs to start at a much earlier age. Such, at least, is the thesis of work I’ve been involved in to create a cooperative education curriculum at the high school level in the Bronx. In Dare the School Build a New Social Order? ,

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Warnings of an “Unparalleled” Assault on Higher Education

NonProfit Quarterly

Image Credit: Thiago Matos on pexels.com A new preliminary report by the American Association of University Professors is sounding alarms over a slew of legislative and political maneuvers by Florida Governor Ron DeSantis and the Florida Legislature. Last year, Gov. The report highlights four key findings: 1.

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Reconnecting Economics Education with Today’s Global Realities

NonProfit Quarterly

Image credit: Nathan Dumlao on Unsplash In a world of worsening climate disruptions and growing economic inequities, what is the economics education that people need? In a world of worsening climate disruptions and growing economic inequities, what is the economics education that people need?

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Guest Post: Stories of Volunteer Managers, Technology, and the Pandemic

Twenty Hats

Over the past year, our research team at Arizona State University has conducted the Technology Evolution in Volunteer Management, or “TEVA” project. We spoke with 181 volunteer managers that work in human service organizations, governmental agencies, higher education, hospitals, zoos, and more.

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Why Common Core Will Fail

Ken Goldstein

The latest in educational "fixes," promoted by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the National Governors Association, and the Obama administration, the Common Core initiative was developed "to provide a clear and consistent framework to prepare our children for college and the workforce." Not so in Boyle Heights.

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GUEST POST: A Great Idea… Connecting With Donors Through Photo Books

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Previously, she spent 19 years in the development office at The University of Alabama at Birmingham overseeing a comprehensive program for gift acknowledgement, recognition, and reporting. The college’s curriculum is based on close faculty-student interaction in teaching, advising, and research.