Education Definition

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senators Cory Booker (D-NJ), Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), Brian Schatz (D-HI), Ron Wyden (D-OR), and Alex Padilla (D-CA) introduced the College Athletes Bill of Rights, comprehensive legislation that will change the landscape of college sports and protect and expand the rights of college athletes. Increasingly, college sports have come to reflect many of the inequities that permeate life in America –where systems fail to protect those under their charge, where hard-working people are denied opportunities to benefit from their labor, and where systemic and structural racism disadvantages and exploits people of color. The College

What is Israel education? Should it focus on Jewish power? Should it highlight Israel’s diversity? How should it overlap, if at all, with Israel advocacy? And how should it deal with the Israeli-Palestinian conflict?

Those were some of the questions debated at a panel on the first day of a virtual conference held by the Center for Israel Education (CIE). The conference, which began Sunday and ends on Tuesday, drew 57 attendees, all of whom teach about Israel or are otherwise connected to the field. 

The panel featured Tal Grinfas-David, CIE’s vice president of outreach and pre-collegiate school management

EXCLUSIVE — A
California
school district paid an education consultancy organization called “Woke Kindergarten” $20,000 for a monthlong
teacher
training program on “anti-racist” and anti-bias curriculum in
elementary
school.

Hayward Unified School District contracted Woke Kindergarten at its district board meeting this week in order to continue training staff at Glassbrook Elementary School in anti-racism, a phrase commonly associated with
critical race theory
.

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The district’s contract abstract says teachers and staff will “learn how to use Woke Kindergarten’s resources and pedagogical approaches in practice as a way to

KALAMAZOO, Mich.—After nine years of serving as the dean of the College of Education and Human Development (CEHD), Dr. Ming Li stepped down effective July 1. 

Dr. Ming Li

Li announced his departure in an email to the CEHD faculty earlier this spring, citing personal reasons. He will continue on as a CEHD faculty member in the Department of Human Performance and Health Education in the fall.

“I have been so privileged for having the opportunity to work with you all for the past nine years. Thank you for your patience and support