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Living With Parakeets and Other Migrants

Sapiens

When I came to Amsterdam as a graduate student in 2012, I was surprised to find the citys parks teeming with vibrant green feathers, red beaks, and bluish tails. rose-ringed or ring-necked parakeet) was included in The Naturalists Library , an illustrated natural history series popular in the United Kingdom during the Victorian era.

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"What are we teaching? Powerful knowledge and a capabilities curriculum" - a review

Living Geography

GeoCapabilities began in 2012 with a pilot project led by the American Association of Geographers. We need to counter the tide of fake news, which is lifted by AI and the actions of governments in more than one country. All of these are referenced in the book. This work is summarised in the online journal RIGEO. As Richard says on p.22,

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Native Americans turn to charter schools to reclaim their kids’ education

The Hechinger Report

Once the site of an Indian boarding school, where the federal government attempted to strip children of their tribal identity, the Native American Community Academy now offers the opposite: a public education designed to affirm and draw from each student’s traditional culture and language. Credit: Sharon Chischilly for The Hechinger Report.

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Bureaucratic costs at some colleges are twice what’s spent on instruction

The Hechinger Report

The study, based on financial data provided by colleges and universities themselves to the federal government, found that 64 cents was spent on administration at the smallest private colleges for every 36 cents spent on instruction. WHY IT MATTERS: New report suggests administrative costs at some campuses exceeds academic ones.

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Universities and colleges that need to fill seats start offering a helping hand to student-parents

The Hechinger Report

The college has set aside “family-friendly” spaces in libraries and lounges and holds events for parents with kids, including movie nights and barbecues. Yet the number of colleges and universities with on-campus child care has been dropping steadily, from 1,115 in 2012 to 824 today, federal data shows.

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Making positive educational moves during the pandemic

The Hechinger Report

Our governments need to be working in partnership with tech companies to put ‘the Netflix of online learning’ into action,” she said. “I And when they turn to each other for help, it’s most often for babysitting, so they can sneak in a few hours at the library. I don’t understand why that isn’t happening — now.”. percent to 49.6

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What the research says about the best way to engage parents

The Hechinger Report

Edmondson Elementary Principal Trish Malik, who has been at the school since 2012, visits with Cheryl Cook and Michelle Myers, who work on family and community partnerships at the Thompson School District, before a January family event. The six-week session, conducted in Spanish, her primary language, was held at the Loveland Public Library.

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