College-Level Writing Teacher Urges Bill Gates to ‘Please, Please’ Stay Away from Higher Ed
A college-level writing teacher urges Common Core financier Bill Gates to “please, please” stay away from the world of higher education.
Equity
Minneapolis Program Segregating White and Black Staffers ‘Postponed’
The Minneapolis Division of Race and Equity has postponed a program for employees that would have segregated black and white staffers in separate rooms.
Lawmaker Calls for Ban on Partisan Ideology in Classrooms
A Maine Republican sponsored legislation that would forbid teachers from endorsing political candidates and from using their classrooms as bully pulpits for ideological advocacy.
Teachers Urged to Include ‘Social and Emotional Learning’ that Created ‘White Privilege’ into Classrooms
Panelists at the South by Southwest (SXSW) EDU 2019 conference this week urged educators to make “social and emotional learning” (SEL) part of every core subject in K–12 classrooms.
Culture Secretary: Amazon, Netflix Could Be Forced to ‘Represent Full Diversity of UK’ Like BBC
British Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Jeremy Wright appeared to threaten heavier regulation of streaming services like Amazon Prime and Netflix to “encourage” them to “reflect and represent” the “full diversity” of the United Kingdom, like the BBC.
