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Eileen Culloty: Israel is targeting educational infrastructure in Gaza. An academic boycott is the right response
The devastation in Palestine has reinvigorated calls for an academic boycott of Israel. In 2004, Palestinian academics asked international colleagues to boycott Israel in ...
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On September 27 Blessington GAA All Stars coaches organised a very successful Bingo and Karaoke night in the Ramblers Pub Blessington. It was a brilliant evening with big ...
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May 26, 2021 · Ella Flagg Young became NEA’s first female president in 1910, a full decade before women gained the right to vote. Ironically, even though the NTA had been open to minority educators from day one, women had been barred from joining.
In 1910, aided by Margaret Haley, Young was elected the first woman president of the National Education Association. In 1913 Young resigned as superintendent. After much controversy and a public protest led by Jane Addams and others, Young was reappointed; however, she resigned permanently in 1915.
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The NEA was founded in Philadelphia in 1857 as the National Teachers Association (NTA). [12] Zalmon Richards was elected the NTA's first president and presided over the organization's first annual meeting in 1858. [13] At the beginning and for its first century of history, it had the character of a professional association rather than a labor ...
May 17, 2018 · American educator and theorist who was the first female superintendent of a major school district and the first female president of the National Education Association. Name variations: Ella Flagg.
Superintendent of the Chicago schools from 1909 through 1915 and elected president of the National Education Association (NEA) in 1910, Ella Flagg Young attempted widespread reform in an increasingly industrialized and diverse America.
Red Sulphur Springs, West Virginia, U.S. Died. April 14, 1962. (1962-04-14) (aged 77) Occupation (s) Educator, school administrator, clubwoman. Cornelia Storrs Adair (November 9, 1884–1962) was an educator and the first classroom teacher elected to serve as president (1927–1928) of the National Education Association.
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Becky Pringle is president of the National Education Association, the nation’s largest labor union. Becky is a middle school science teacher with more than three decades of classroom experience and has distinguished herself as a fierce social justice warrior and defender of educator rights.
