Education & Tech: News for Educators [Edited]

• An Ivy League professor on why colleges don’t hire more faculty of color: ‘We don’t want them’

  Typically, ‘quality’ means that the person didn’t go to an elite institution for their Ph.D. or wasn’t mentored by a prominent person in the field. What people forget is that attending the elite institutions and being mentored by prominent people is linked to social capital and systemic racism ensures that people of color have less of it.

• Teaching the teacher

  Until now, the job of the teacher has been comparatively neglected, with all the focus on structural changes. But disruptions to school systems are irrelevant if they do not change how and what children learn. For that, what matters is what teachers do and think. The answer, after all, was in the classroom.

• 9 Elephants in the (Class)Room That Should “Unsettle” Us

  Things we all know but doubt and hesitate to acknowledge:1)a very small fraction of what is learned in the classroom is retained even a year after learning; 2)most estudents are bored and disengaged in school; 3)grades and not learning are the main concern; 4)mismatch between school and higher ed in terms of preparation; and 5)explicit knowledge accounts for very little of our success in most professions.

• How to cite social media in academic writing

  Citations and references according to the Harvard method in the Harvard-SHU style

9 Elephants in the (Class)Room That Should “Unsettle” Us

• Reasons for teachers to brag about themselves

  Article based on Peggy Klaus' book, Brag! The Art of Tooting Your Own Horn Without Blowing It. The book was written to help professionals promote themselves without turning off those who they are trying to impress.

• Frail neighborhoods, undercut education, health, and jobs — all keys to thriving minorities

  Education is really one of the keys for Black and Latinos to deal with the whole question of inequality.

• A College degree is worth less if you grow up poor

  Poor kids who ended up going to college earned 91% more than their peers who never went beyond high school. Other college grads earned 162% more. The gap gets worse over time: By the age of 50, middle and upper-class college grads earn nearly $100,000 on average, while college grads from low-income families earn around $50,000.

• Educators shortage: A comprensive article's list

  Education and Tech making efforts to have the shortage problem analysis in one single place

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The rest of my favorite links are here.