Higher Education / Workforce Development
- Degree programs emerge as possible solution to workplace DEI
Workforce Monitor - The future of freelance
Workforce Monitor - I.C.E. increases understanding of microcredentials & adult learning
Workforce Monitor - Service years offer young people an alternative path to career success
Workforce Monitor - Degree programs could be answer to chronic air traffic control shortage
Workforce Monitor - As efforts to end unpaid internships make slow progress, universities step in with funding
Workforce Monitor - From bonuses to new classroom models, schools try to tackle the teacher shortage
Workforce Monitor - Higher ed strives to fix nursing shortage
Workforce Monitor - Educated foreign workers face work-visa challenges
Workforce Monitor - Reach University’s ‘Grow-Your-Own’ teacher prep shows promise
Workforce Monitor
K-12 Education / Children
- Politically Motivated State Superintendents Wield More Power
School Library Journal - Kids face the greatest risk of eviction of any age group. The consequences can last a lifetime.
Youth Today - Can affordable housing make the “low-pay, low-opportunity” afterschool field fairer for workers?
Youth Today - Nearly 90% of public schools now offer afterschool programs
Youth Today - As fentanyl use rises among teens, Arizona requires naloxone in foster homes
Youth Today - Access Denied: Florida Teachers Discuss Life and Lessons in Classrooms Without Books on Shelves
School Library Journal - Eight Years After Federal Law to Improve School Stability for Foster Youth, States Still Scrambling
The Imprint - Intergenerational Housing Connects Vulnerable Youth and Seniors
The Imprint - New Law Gives Low-Income Minnesotans Access to Attorneys in Child Welfare Cases
The Imprint - Minnesota Bill Would Remove Financial Burden of College for State’s Foster Youth
The Imprint - Minnesota Foster Children Are No Less Safe in Kinship Homes, and Benefits Abound
The Imprint - Concerns Over Equity as Minnesota Crafts Foster Care Prevention Plan
The Imprint - What We’ve Learned About The Child Brain
The Imprint - Minnesota Considers Expanding Support for Parent Mentors to Help Reunite Families
The Imprint - Minnesota Advocates Call for Direct Payments to Foster Youth from Pandemic Relief
The Imprint - Why migrants who speak indigenous languages slip through cracks in US schools
The Guardian - A year behind the mask: As this school year draws to a close, educators reflect on teaching without face time
Chalkbeat - Students at NYC’s only public culinary high school find ways to keep cooking in the pandemic
Chalkbeat NY - For some Indiana schools, it’s back to normal this year for field trips and other in-person activities
Chalkbeat Indiana - Anatomy of a Challenge: A Book Ban in Leander, Texas Presaged a Pattern of Challenges Nationwide
School Library Journal - Students Counter Censorship Attempts with Banned Books Clubs
School Library Journal - ‘Banned Book Club’ Authors Offer Advice as Teens Confront Censorship
School Library Journal - Report for America goes to school
The Grade - Top reporters share pandemic reporting tips
The Grade - Globe reporters describe how they covered immigrant English learners
The Grade - How to report on whether district reading programs are any good
The Grade - Reporters share advice on how to get out of the remote learning rut
The Grade
Immigration
- Educated foreign workers face work-visa challenges
Workforce Monitor - From ‘just a mom’ to immigration activist: Salvadoran TPS holder fights to keep her family together
Latin America News Dispatch - Mayan language survives in Champaign, poses challenge in immigration court
Chicago Tribune - Fleeing violence in Honduras, migrants enter U.S. political arena as midterms approach
Latin America News Dispatch
Latin America
- The Uphill Battle to Stop Peru from Building a New Airport Near Machu Picchu
Smithsonian magazine - Bolsonaro Won’t Save the Amazon—But Corporations Could
The New Republic - PODCAST: What the end of TPS would mean for El Salvador
RadioLAND - ‘Lost City’ no more, Machu Picchu feels the strain of booming tourism
Chicago Tribune
Land Rights
- The next act in the fight against Line 3? A museum on treaty rights
Minnesota Reformer - Path to Federal Foster Care Prevention Funds Overlooks Tribal Programs, Experts Say
The Imprint - New Dakota language app helps bridge gap between elders and youth
Minnesota Reformer - These Native historians are compiling what we know about boarding schools
Minnesota Reformer - Will Biden Cancel Minnesota’s Line 3 Oil Pipeline?
The American Prospect - Border Wall Desecrates Native American Lands in Southern California and Arizona
The American Prospect - COVID-19 adds a new snag to the 2020 census count of Native Americans
Smithsonian magazine - The true native New Yorkers can never truly reclaim their homeland
Smithsonian magazine
History
- How America’s First Banned Book Survived and Became an Anti-Authoritarian Icon
Smithsonian - From the Midway: A podcast miniseries about the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair
Chicago Tribune - The Dance Hall That Charmed Dickens in America’s First Slum
Bedford and Bowery - Did ‘bad blood’ on the American frontier lead to Chicago’s first murder?
Chicago Tribune - 50 years ago, Francis Brenton sailed a canoe from Lake Michigan to Senegal
Chicago Tribune
Other
- Would Minnesota mining end U.S. reliance on Russian nickel? Experts say probably not.
Minnesota Reformer - In big win for Enbridge, most of its old Line 3 pipeline will remain in the ground
Minnesota Reformer - How the Des Moines Register built on credibility for its Tibbetts profile
Columbia Journalism Review - Ireland isn’t just about potatoes
Chicago Tribune - What the heck are wallabies doing in Ireland?
Smithsonian magazine - How the coffee cup sleeve was invented
Smithsonian magazine