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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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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. They wanted to help students and teachers who were teaching from home that needed curriculum ideas and ways to engage their students in this new virtual environment.”.

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Reconnecting Economics Education with Today’s Global Realities

NonProfit Quarterly

He said, [Our] failure to facilitate a pluralism of approaches in teaching economics is a deprivation of basic students’ rights, indeed citizen rights leading…to a narrow, blinkered, and distorted education. But this view is certainly not universally held. The resources for creating this revised curriculum already exist.

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How Investors Can Shape AI for the Benefit of Workers

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Currently, about half of teachers’ time is spent not with students but on grading, lesson planning, and curriculum development, as well as other administrative tasks. Some of these tasks could be areas where generative AI technology like Brisk Teaching could serve as a useful copilot for overburdened employees.

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The Call of Leadership Now: BIPOC Leaders in a Syndemic Era

NonProfit Quarterly

We especially want to acknowledge some kindred organizations: Standing In Our Power ; Coaching for Healing , Justice and Liberation ; and Liberatory Leadership Partnership for helping us to develop TLC’s framework , curriculum , and overall orientation to the work.

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The Need for More Inclusive Leadership Narratives

Stanford Social Innovation Review

We also realized that having a set curriculum assumes that individuals come to leadership programs as empty vessels—that they don’t already carry the expertise and experience they need to drive change. They also taught us how we could be more responsive to their needs and strengths, and the change they sought to create.

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Why Common Core Will Fail

Ken Goldstein

I''ve been thinking about this for a while, but it was brought to the fore for me last week when I attended Social Innovation Summit 2013 at Stanford University. The problem wasn''t that she or her students didn''t have access to uniform, national curriculum standards. The middle-class was the lowest rung we were expected to shoot for.