Education News in Brief (2016/10/28)
Author(s): Scott Douglas Jacobsen
Publication (Outlet/Website): Conatus News/Uncommon Ground Media Inc.
Publication Date (yyyy/mm/dd): 2016/10/28
Brock University has inappropriate” category for costumes
According to The Gazette, the Brock University Student Justice Centre has encouraged students to look into their website for the Halloween outfits, which is to ensure students do not wear “inappropriate” costumes.
Indeed, there is a category labelled inappropriate. That is, as noted in the report, “on the topic of cultural appropriate their check list appears like a dull reaction to last year’s blackface fiasco.” A time that four boys dressed as a Jamaican bobsled team.
The Student Justice Centre at Brock University provided a set of questions for students to reflect on and “should ask themselves before dressing up in a particular costume.” Some banned costumes are “cultural headdresses, Caitlyn Jenner depictions and even a Donald Trump mask.”
Education crucial for acceptance of transgenders
CBC reports that in Windsor a transgender woman, Lorraine Sayell, states that education is crucial for the proper comprehension of “issues” faced by the LGBT community, which is an ongoing issue itself.
Sayell said that there is a rejection of services to genderqueer individuals, or those that don’t “identify as male or female” and can be a consistent struggle in communities in life for them.
“Particularly in the last five years or so, the issue of transgender has become very public…It is very much talked about both in positive and negative terms. So, this is something that is not going to go away. We have to get ahead of it,” Sayell said.
New US President will not spend finances on reforms in the schools
According to The Economist, the new president will not be prioritizing school reform. Only 12.7% of the total USD600 billion is spent on the federal government in America. There are the states and the 13,500 districts that split the rest.
Furthermore, the US spends more than most nations to produce some of the worst educational outcomes, which is highly inefficient. George W. Bush and Barack Obama spurred reform through the power of the federal government.
No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act of 2001 was one aspect of this. Another was the “Race to the Top” initiative beginning in 2009. The former was Republican. The latter was Democrat. Regulation school reform, as an era, is ending. The Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) was passed a recent replacement for the NCLB. Power is given back to the states for standards and tests.
Higher education institutions need to integrate with modern technology
Business Wire reports that Technavio put out an analysis entitled global higher education m-learning market to highlight the “most important trends expected to impact the market outlook from 2016-2020.”
Individuals with stakes in post-secondary institutions know that they need to integrate newer technology into their systems. That means upgrading their current systems or purchasing more advanced ones altogether for new infrastructure.
“This has led to the adoption of education technology solutions across various institutions” for the improvement of the learning opportunities and outcomes of students, but the cost of this “digitization” has been an issue.
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