Education
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Free-Speech Lines Blur for Teachers in Wake of Charlie Kirk’s Killing
The government’s move to revoke state-issued teaching licenses in response to teachers’ personal opinions posted to social media—notably not in the classroom or in public school forums—is part of a movement to curtail the free speech of Americans,” said Lora Bartlett, chair of the Education Department at the University of California, Santa Cruz.
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Too little, too late: A media in crisis blames Democrats for the Biden cover-up
In an opinion article, Nolan Higdon, a lecturer in the Education Department at UC Santa Cruz, argues that the general public is disenfranchised with the media and that the damage is done not just to journalism, but to democracy.
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Schools closed and went remote to fight COVID-19. The impacts linger 5 years later.
New research on the lingering effects of the pandemic on teachers from University of California, Santa Cruz Professor of Education Lora Bartlett and her colleagues show that the pandemic-era "hastened a downward spiral in career satisfaction and longevity for teachers. The biggest declines in satisfaction took place in places where teachers described experiencing a lack of support…
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Debunking myths perpetuated by Donald Trump about undocumented immigrants
Lucinda Pease-Alvarez, a professor emerita of education at UC Santa Cruz who has worked extensively with immigrant children and their families, co-authored this op-ed debunking a variety of myths the current president relies on when targeting undocumented immigrants.
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Why the legacy media suddenly sound like Bernie Sanders
Nolan Higdon, a lecturer at Merrill College and the Education Department at the University of California, Santa Cruz, argues in this op-ed that the results of the 2024 election forced a reckoning in legacy media, where they had to confront the fact that they were wrong and Bernie Sanders was right, when it came to…
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UC Santa Cruz awarded $4 million grant to address systemic racism, ableism in K-12 math
The National Science Foundation awarded more than $4 million in grant funding to UC Santa Cruz to support a project aimed at addressing systemic racism and ableism in K-12 math education. “I really want teachers in mathematics education to have better ideas, resources and pedagogies to teach all of their students,” said assistant professor of…
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Seeing isn't believing: From Gaza to US politics, deepfake videos are peddling fake news
Nolan Higdon, a lecturer for Merrill College and the Education Department, wrote an opinion article for USA Today about how AI deepfakes on social media spread fake news and the need for increased critical media literacy among the public.
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Combining remote and in-person learning led to chaos, study finds
The Hechinger Report featured new research by Associate Professor of Education Lora Bartlett on the challenges of different pandemic-era "hybrid" education models that blend online and in-person learning.
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After Propping Up Schools in the Pandemic, Teachers Now Feel Ignored
Education Week published the final installment in a series of essays by Associate Professor of Education Lora Bartlett.
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Will the Pandemic Drive Teachers Out of the Profession? What One Study Says
Education Week published the third essay in a series by Associate Professor of Education Lora Bartlett, which focuses on the pandemic's effect on teachers. This week's essay was accompanied by a shorter piece on what teachers sacrificed to stay in classrooms.
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Teachers Were Told to ‘Give Grace’ as the Pandemic Started. They Did That and Much More
Associate Professor of Education Lora Bartlett's series of essays for Education Week continues with a focus on how teachers navigated lack of district guidance. The article was accompanied by a shorter piece that provides a deeper look at one teacher’s experience in spring of 2020.
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I’ve Studied Teachers for 20 Years. The Pandemic Was Their Ultimate Challenge
Associate Professor of Education Lora Bartlett launched the first of a four-part series of essays for Education Week covering how teachers navigated remote instruction during the height of the coronavirus pandemic.