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Immigrant Community College Students Struggle to Find Support During COVID

By Ata Younan — 2021

City Colleges of Chicago immigrant students balance extra work hours, technology issues and limited English proficiency with remote learning.

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An Expert’s View: Sir Ken Robinson

Our new Learning sections will feature a question-and-answer segment with an education expert. For our first installment, we’ve chosen Sir Ken Robinson, a best-selling author and longtime advocate of transforming education.

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Kenneth Robinson
2018
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The Future of Education: We Live in a Social World

Education is a dynamic system, not a static one. It's not an impersonal, inert engineering system; it’s constantly in flux. It exists in the actions and activities of people every day and is subject to all kinds of conflicting forces and fluctuations.

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Kenneth Robinson
2016
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How Much Homework Is Enough? Depends Who You Ask

In the stereotypical classroom, the teacher spends time in class presenting material to the students. Their homework consists of assignments based on that material.

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Ken Robinson, Lou Aronica
2018
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Standardization Broke Education. Here’s How We Can Fix Our Schools

“The movement towards personalization is already advancing in medicine. We must move quickly in that direction in education, too.”

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Kenneth Robinson
2019
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