A Principal's Reflections

OCTOBER 14, 2012

Two of my Social Studies teachers were recently invited to Washington DC on October 4, 2012, to deliver a model lesson that illustrated the effective use of technology. The following is a guest post by Rebecca Millan who attended with her colleague Nicolette Perna. For more information on this event check out the summary provided by ISTE.

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APRIL 1, 2020

The number of college students choosing to major in history has dropped dramatically over the past decade. There aren’t many graduate students in history because there are just too few job openings for history instructors at colleges and universities. The AHA launched the nationwide initiative in 2012 and called it “Tuning.”.

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NOVEMBER 22, 2021

The drop in college graduates who majored in humanities ranges between 16 percent and 29 percent since 2012. In the post-war boom of the 1950s, college students were confident of their economic futures and many studied liberal arts subjects such as English, history and philosophy. History is seeing a similar collapse, down 35 percent.

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A Principal's Reflections

SEPTEMBER 3, 2017

This has now been the worst flood in the history of the United States. Having road out Hurricane Sandy in New York City back in 2012 I can say that this experience was worse. By the time I actually got around to posting this piece on my blog the Houston area is still drying out.

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

Johnson feels about Friday,” she told the students as she paced around the cafeteria in an “I am black history” shirt. “If High school teacher Donell Harrell said he was almost fired for staging a Black History Month program. She liked the people and the culture and the history. You know how Ms. Southwest Georgia S.T.E.M.

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A Principal's Reflections

FEBRUARY 6, 2012

Therefore, it appears that in 2013 we will finally dedicate the second memorial in which we feel extremely proud that our efforts have caused the local community to take ownership of its own important history. Zakopane, Poland You may recall during our extended stay two years ago that we had spent a day in Zakopane, a mountain region about 1.5

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MAY 24, 2021

A 2012 review of studies on learning time found that the extra time often didn’t produce academic benefits for students and when it did, the benefits were small. One 2012 review of studies on learning time found that the extra time often didn’t produce academic benefits for students and when it did, the benefits were small.

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MAY 1, 2020

From 2012, the earliest year data is available on distance learning, to 2018, the number of institutions where the majority of students took at least some coursework online has doubled, to more than 800, according to the National Center for Education Statistics.

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MAY 19, 2024

Today, courses at all grade levels include Indigenous history, numeracy, land-based science and language classes in Keres, Lakota, Navajo, Tiwa, Spanish and Zuni. The school also tracks college completion rates, with 59 percent of the class of 2012 finishing within six years. Credit: Sharon Chischilly for The Hechinger Report.

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Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Researchers from the University of São Paulo (USP) and the Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation (EMBRAPA) have identified semi-domesticated maize specimens from caves in Brazil’s Peruaçu Valley, revealing a unique chapter in the crop’s evolutionary history. The history and evolution of maize. Goodman, M.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2021

A 2012 study found that Head Start teachers, who serve children from low-income families, were more likely than their peers to have diagnosed depression and physical health conditions like high blood pressure and asthma. . Both surveys were conducted by the Center for the Study of Child Care Employment. Their trauma has increased.”.

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Strange Maps

MAY 28, 2024

But even without a government, a flag, and most other trappings of actual nationhood, Baltoscandia has a history, a raison d’être , and perhaps even a future. After centuries of foreign rule, first by Germans, then by Russians, the three Baltic states are masters in their own houses for the first time in their history.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 6, 2021

From 1993 to 2012, the share of students taking out loans to finance their degrees rose from roughly half to over two-thirds. Our solutions for the student debt problem should not repeat this sordid history. Between 1993 and 2020, the average loan amount grew nearly three-fold, exceeding $30,000.

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DECEMBER 11, 2023

Education Secretary Miguel Cardona credited the largest federal investment in education in history – roughly $200 billion – for keeping the United States “in the game” during the pandemic. math scores recorded in the history of the PISA math test, which began in 2003. The tests were administered in 2022.)

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AUGUST 7, 2024

Credit: Andrea Morales for MLK50 Andrea Morales for MLK50 At the Freedom Projects, students — called “Freedom Fellows” — learn about Black and Indigenous history, math, reading and public speaking. The original Freedom Schools opened to educate young Black Mississippians on Black history and political activism.

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AUGUST 27, 2018

For this experiment, the researchers spent years developing four separate project-based units on history, geography, economics and civics. The curriculum development was the subject of a 2012 paper.) In a history unit, teachers and students can choose which historical sites to write about in their postcards.

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JANUARY 26, 2024

The people of the area really wanted a college,” Sister Ellen Doyle, president from 1986 to 1997, said in a video history. “A Homan is compiling an archive of Chatfield’s history. It really has a lot of history.” Just having a college nearby inspired her to go, she said. The college has now closed.

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JUNE 23, 2020

Schools hold the history and culture of a place through yearbooks, trophy cases, and photo archives. Closed in 2012, the building sat vacant until Community Forge purchased Johnston from the school district for $225,000 and reopened it in 2018. We use schools as polling stations and for neighborhood association meetings.

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MAY 11, 2023

She credits a training program through the American Museum of Natural History in Manhattan for preparing her to do so. More than 150 teachers have graduated from the program since it started in 2012. “I The 15-month tuition-free program focuses on enrolling educators in “high-needs” middle and high schools.

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JULY 17, 2017

Since its launch in 2012, the city’s high school graduation rate has climbed 15 points, to 64 percent, according to New York State education department figures , the highest rate the city has achieved in more than a decade. There was so much acrimony and such a history of distrust and malfunction.”.

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JANUARY 29, 2018

The report details the shaky background of for-profit institutions, including a history of providing inaccurate job placement rates, misleading students about job prospects, and a pattern of saddling students with immense amounts of debt.

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MARCH 2, 2019

The reknitting of schools and histories gives a new depth to this year’s Carnival parades, as students from schools like Carver see proud alumni like Foxworth-Carter and feel a deeper connection to their schools’ rich histories. But it’s also the deep history. Cherishing history while challenging old assumptions.

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JANUARY 17, 2020

Marc Levine, emeritus professor of history, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. billion of research in 2012, a resulting investigation found, produced less than $16 million in licensing fees, about one-tenth as much as rivals including Columbia and MIT. Johns Hopkins University. Despite conducting $1.5 Photo: Carol M.

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MAY 17, 2019

The score gap between those who make less than $80,000 and those who make more than that amount has increased from 2012 to 2016, according to a 2016 ACT report. Attempts at addressing the wealth gap, which stems from the history of slavery, segregation, racism and discrimination, should be encouraged and lauded.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

She watched from the backseat in August 2012 as the city gave way to the causeway, miles and miles of concrete bridge she hoped would ferry her to the future she’d been promised. As Williams and her classmates moved away in the summer of 2012, Marcovitz expected they’d all have “a happy ending with college.” psychology class.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 22, 2018

Soon, you’ll be able to get a master’s degree in World War II history at Arizona State University. He analyzed data from the National Center for Education Statistics and found a 21-percent increase in the number of degrees or certificates available to students since 2012. Higher education is in an increasingly tight spot.

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Anthropology News

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

To the left of the gallery, Denyse Thomasos’ 2012 Untitled , in her signature abstract expressionist style, presents a watercraft motif evoking familiarity with her earlier works where they transform into coffins and reveal the horrifying reality of the Transatlantic Slave Trade.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

Liberal arts colleges are in crisis,” said Doug Sofer, professor of history at another of these schools, Maryville College in Tennessee. Doug Sofer, professor of history, Maryville College in Tennessee. They got small grants in 2012 of $50,000 each from the Appalachian College Association , or ACA, to work on the issue.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

Statewide, 30 percent of casework-related staff left between 2012 and 2015, according to a state audit. Nonetheless, the number of counselors in Wisconsin has stayed flat since 2012, according to a state audit, although there has been an increase in the number of counselors in training.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 1, 2018

According to state data, the number of young people in state juvenile justice facilities dropped from 901 at the end of 2012 to 386 in 2017. In 2016, 45,567 young people were held in facilities nationwide, down 20 percent from 2012.) Its implementation has coincided with the rapid rise in course completions and diplomas awarded.

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Anthropology News

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

This work entangles power structures with disciplinary histories that work to enforce and reinforce particular narratives about whose bodies are to be studied , whose bodies are to be cared for , and what care looks like for community members. I received my Ph.D.

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JUNE 20, 2017

In 2012, budget shortfalls led Beaverton to axe more than 40 school librarian positions. The Beaverton school district, west of Portland, Oregon, is a case in point. But two years ago, embarking on a bond-funded technology push that included a computer for every student, the district had a change of heart.

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OCTOBER 9, 2022

in 2012 to 16.9% The 2012 CU Boulder graduate, now a teacher and historian, was preparing to bring 52 more students to CU Boulder campus last summer through Aquetza, a recruitment program he and other Latino students created and named after the Indigenous Nahuatl word meaning “to lift your chin up,” he said.

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AUGUST 9, 2017

Bowie, 24, dropped out of Georgia State after financial problems derailed him from his dream of becoming a history teacher. Nonetheless, he made it through the rest of high school, and kept his GPA high enough to be accepted at Georgia State University, where he wanted to study to be a history teacher. “My

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MAY 23, 2020

The Miami-Dade school district, for example, adopted a plan back in 2012 to close the digital divide. Half of the 20 most destructive wildfires in state history have occurred since 2015. And last fall, the Kincade Fire forced the largest evacuation in Sonoma County history.

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OCTOBER 15, 2018

Andrea, who earned her college degree in English literature in 2012, is a temp in a law firm and drives people around on weekday mornings and through the weekends. Think learning art and history by shadowing a curator in the summer months or learning the physics of sound through an internship with a sound engineer.

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OCTOBER 23, 2018

Onalaska, situated roughly halfway between Seattle and Portland, is proud of its history. In contrast, Onalaska’s population rose from 731 residents in 2012 to 772 residents in 2016, according to U.S. But that changed in in 2012, when the Onalaska Alliance purchased the 72-acre property. Census data. over that period. “I

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