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Karen Wade

Cognitive Disability | National Center on Accessible Instructional Materials - 0 views

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    This overview focuses on accessible instructional materials, but also includes a good breakdown of various types of cognitive disabilities.
Karen Wade

Physical Disability | National Center on Accessible Instructional Materials - 0 views

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    Discussion of accessible instructional materials for people with physical disabilities--includes a good breakdown of types of mobility impairments. There also are links to pages concerning various forms of sensory disabilities.
Lisa Eriksen

Volatile weather creates dramatic changes for California farmers | Center for Investiga... - 1 views

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    What will change in agriculture mean to the economy and politics of California?
Ruth Cuadra

Forget Work-Life Balance; Strive for Work-Life Integration | Leading Effectively: Offic... - 1 views

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    Do you see "work" and "life" as an either/or? My vision isn't work-life balance; it's work-life integration.
Karen Wade

Center for the Future of Museums: Robots for Accessibility: Help Henry Spread the Word - 0 views

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    Increased accessibility through robotics to museums and countless other places is no longer a dream of the future, it's a reality in many large institutions. The challenge now is to translate these advances for use by the masses.
Karen Wade

Center for the Future of Museums: Futurist Friday: The Internet of Infants - 0 views

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    While Millennial and Boomer parents may be or have been equally protective of your little ones, the monitoring technology certainly is changing.
Elizabeth Merritt

The great tax escape that is America's nonprofit sector | FT Alphaville - 2 views

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      Philip Hackney, @EOTaxProf, notes "same orgs were exempt back in 1862 when first income tax was enacted"
  • it turns out that the way the wealthy decide how to distribute cash is often even less fair than the way the state decides how to spend it.
  • More than half of the highly conspicuous donations of the ultra-rich were injected directly into the endowments of their already rich alma maters. Much of the rest was given to hushed museums in the form of very expensive donated art, or to other places that rich old people tend to congregate, like cultural arts centers and high-end hospitals. In other words, the funds the rich were giving went largely to institutions that tended to the needs and prerogatives of the rich and privileged.
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  • DAFs were being used to sidestep rules that require foundations to make annual donations to charities.
Elizabeth Merritt

Opinion | Who's Unhappy With Schools? The Answer Surprised Me. - The New York Times - 0 views

  • home-schooling is back to its prepandemic rate of 4 percent, and data from the National Center for Education Statistics found that by far the steepest drops in public school enrollment during the 2020-21 school year were among children in pre-K or kindergarten.
  • All of this at least raises the question of whether some of the people driving the outrage, even animus, against schools might not have much skin in the game and might not have any recent experience with teachers or curriculum.
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