 Dear reader,
Through the years, I’ve all too often heard about the latest trend that will fix education: blended, competency-based, deeper, outdoor, social and emotional, skills-based, personalized learning, to name a few labels.
Post-pandemic, a new urgency to address lagging test scores, mental health, falling enrollment, widening achievement gaps and teacher disillusionment is replacing conversation about creativity and risk-taking. That’s why I’m excited to be discussing why creativity matters with the design-oriented superstar siblings, Doreen Gehry Nelson and Frank Gehry, when they appear on stage together in a keynote discussion at SXSW EDU in Austin that I’ll be moderating on Tuesday, March 7. The live event will be livestreamed and a recording will be available to view later.
Our team at The Hechinger Report loves to be part of conversations about education, so if you plan to be in Austin, come say hi to our future of learning reporter Javeria Salman and our data reporter Fazil Khan. Or drop into our session on early childhood with Jackie Mader, who is moderating a panel March 8. I’ll be showing a short clip of a film and moderating a discussion on the future of college admissions and affirmative action that same day, as we await a Supreme Court decision with huge implications.
-- Liz Willen |
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 Affirmative Action |
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How is race and ethnicity considered in college admissions? The Hechinger Report has teamed up with WCNY and Retro Report with support from the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting to explore the origins of affirmative action and the arguments before the Supreme Court that are challenging this practice today. Read and watch all of it right here.
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Can Race Be a Factor in College Admissions? SCOTUS Reconsiders Affirmative Action. | Retro Report
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