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Appearance-Based Discrimination Costs The US Economy Over $500B Annually, Dove Study Finds

Dove has released a comprehensive report revealing the true costs of harmful beauty standards.

The Real Cost of Beauty Ideals (RCOBI) report, created in partnership with Deloitte Economics and the TH Chan School of Public Health and STRIPED at Harvard, revealed 66 million people living in the United States in 2019 experienced body dissatisfaction and appearance-based discrimination as it relates to weight, skin shade, or natural hairstyles. The research considered girls as early as 10 years of age.

The alarming statistics stems from societal expectations influenced by film, family, sociocultural factors, and media — which often places whiteness as the

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K12 Education Learning Management Market 2022 – Prime Factors, Segments Insights, Technology Advancement Outlook, and Growth Forecast Up to 2028

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Sep 26, 2022 (CDN Newswire via Comtex) — The research paper published by MarketsandResearch.biz on Global K12 Education Learning Management Market Report 2022-2028 provides a holistic view of the present global market trends. The research report aims at providing a detailed market overview of the K12 Education Learning Management industry to the buyer of the report. The business insights offered in the report will aid the clients in developing practical business strategies that derive revenue and profits in the growing K12 Education Learning Management industry. The growth

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School board moves closer to finish line on anti-racism policy

Sept. 29—Members of the Frederick County Board of Education on Wednesday discussed their vision for the system’s policy on racism.

The current draft policy is four pages long and outlines how Frederick County Public Schools should handle racial bias on an individual and systemic level. It calls on board members to “engage in regular, candid and action-oriented discussions of race and racial inequities in FCPS”; and covers issues from hiring and training to data collection to curriculum.

The proposed title of the policy has switched back and forth between “Anti-Racism” and “Addressing and Eliminating Racism.”

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Maternal education and household income at birth can increase a child’s chances of overweight and obesity

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A mother’s level of education can be an important predictor of early childhood overweight and obesity, according to a new international study.

The paper, published in International Journal of Obesitylooks at the relation between early childhood socioeconomic status (SES)—as measured by maternal education levels and household income—and later development of childhood overweight and obesity in seven cohorts of children from high-income countries.

Social inequalities were evident across all cohorts, with greater risk of overweight and obesity linked to lower levels of maternal education in early childhood. There was also a link to household income, but

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Navigating Personalized Learning’s Many Definitions

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Personalized learning is being prioritized in districts, schools, and classrooms across the country yet educators don’t always mean the same thing when they use the term.

“Personalized learning means lots of things,” says Bill Bass, Instructional Technology Coordinator for Parkway School District in Missouri. “The idea that it is just one definition is really tough to get your arms around.”

A recent survey conducted by PowerSchool as part of its Education Focus Report confirmed this by showing a variety of perceptions when it comes to the idea of ​​personalized learning.

Defining Personalized Learning

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