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www.schoolsmatter.info
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| | President-elect Donald Trump picked Betsy DeVos to be his education secretary Wednesday, putting a major advocate of charter schools and education vouchers in America's top education post. DeVos, a 58-year-old billionaire philanthropist from Michigan, leads the American Federation for Children. 'Under her leadership we will reform the U.S. education system and break the bureaucracy that is holding our children back,' Trump said.
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| | Learn more about efforts to improve schools, especially through policy changes.
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| | By Steven Miller, July 22, 2021 (Guest Post by former Oakland Educator) In 2018, Thomas Ultican wrote about the dangers of Edtech: "Public education in America contends with four dissimilar but not separate attacks. The school choice movement is motivated by people who want government supported religious schools, others who want segregated schools and still...
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| [AI summary] The history of climate change research shows that scientists have long recognized the potential impact of human activities on the climate. From the early 20th century, there were discussions about the greenhouse effect and its influence on global temperatures. Over time, as more data became available, the consensus among scientists grew that increasing concentrations of greenhouse gases, particularly carbon dioxide, are a significant factor in global warming. Key milestones include the 1958 discovery of the Keeling Curve, which demonstrated the steady rise in atmospheric CO2 levels, and the 1970s and 1980s when the scientific community began to more clearly understand the implications of these changes. By the late 20th century, the evidence supp...