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T h e i n d e p e n d e n t s t ude nt ne w spap e r of t he U niversity of Pittsburgh | PIttnews.com | January 16, 2020 ­| Volume 110 | Issue 202

GATES GRANTS UNIVERSITY $1 MILLION

STITCH AND B*TCH

Jon Moss

News Editor The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation awarded Pitt and civic network Remake Learning a $1 million grant for the Shifting Power initiative, a project to transform how research and development is conducted in education, according to a Monday press release. The initiative will provide a space for black and Latinx educators and learning scientists to work together and re-examine best practices in education, explicitly centering on voices that have historically been excluded. It will also form a network in western Pennsylvania of 20 people from school districts, higher Members of Leading Women of Tomorrow teach each other to knit and hang out Wednesday night in the William education institutions, museums, education Pitt Union during a ‘stitch and b*tch.’ Elise Lavallee contributing editor technology companies and education research organizations. The initiative is intended to become a national model for implementation, according to No Hi —or Coming of Age Day — ceremony marks the maturity of young Japanese people the release. Brinda Vaidya that 38 Japanese students studying English and who have turned 20, earning the right to smoke, Remake Learning is a network of different For The Pitt News Pitt students studying Japanese participated in. drink and vote in elections, among other things. organizations and people from across southYoung people dressed in traditional fine JapAfter the performance, students filed into western Pennsylvania and West Virginia who anese kimonos watched as a group of vivacious Across cultures, ceremonies such as these, like bat and bar mitzvahs and quinceañeras, are a the ballroom to listen to speeches given by advocate for equitable learning practices, such drummers smacked large wadaiko drums in the way for young people to celebrate the transition members of the local government, such as Pittsas uplifting and supporting students of color. University Club last Friday night. to adulthood. burgh City Councilperson Erika Strassburger Established in 2007 as a working group, and The performance, from Japanese drum enSeijin No Hi is a public holiday in Japan, held and Pitt faculty like Alan Juffs of the English See Grant on page 3 semble Pittsburgh Taiko, was part of a Seijin on the second Monday of January. It is a day that See Coming-of-Age on page 7

COMING-OF-AGE ACROSS CULTURES


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