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Common Core Reading Resource: Smithsonian Tween Tribune

Catlin Tucker

My book Creatively Teach the Common Core Literacy Standards with Technology will be published in June 2015 by Corwin. Interested in more technology tips to help you teach the Common Core? Just in time for summer reading! I’m always on the look out for great resources to support reading.

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Enrollment and financial crises threaten growing list of academic disciplines

The Hechinger Report

It’s been on the state’s “low productivity” list — calculated once every four years — in 2011, 2015 and last year, only barely meeting the requirement for master’s programs of producing an average of at least four graduates per year. Falling enrollment has already imperiled programs such as FIU’s African and African Diaspora Studies.

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Forget civics class: Students want to make a difference in real life

The Hechinger Report

Heather Van Benthuysen, director, Chicago Public Schools Department of Social Science and Civic Engagement. In 2015, Generation Citizen, a nonprofit, launched a national campaign to extend voting rights to teens in local elections.

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Deception as Investment: How to Make Digital Ponzi Schemes in China

Anthropology News

Between 2012 and 2015, thousands of P2P platforms emerged, only to crumble within a few years, destroying the life savings of countless middle-class families. Archived webpage (ppdai.com) on March 28, 2015, highlighting the high annual rate, professional services, and safety for investors if using their investment app.

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Persistent problems: A powerful paradigm for professional development

A Psychology Teacher Writes

The paradigm of persistent problems Mary Kennedy’s seminal (2015) paper “Parsing the practice of teaching” sets out the idea that every teacher, no matter their experience, expertise or context, faces the same persistent problems of teaching. Sims, S. & & Allen, R. Review of Education, rev3.3226. Kennedy, M. Korthagen, F.

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Short Course: Bayesian Reasoning for Qualitative Case Studies & Comparative Research (QMMR B)

Political Science Now

He is the co-author, with Alexander George, of Case Studies and Theory Development in the Social Science (MIT Press, 2005), and co-author, with Jeffrey T. Checkel, of Process Tracing: From Metaphor to Analytic Tool (Cambridge University Press, 2015). Tasha Fairfield is Associate Professor at the London School of Economics.

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Celebrating a Decade of Collaboration: APSA and Zayed University Faculty

Political Science Now

The training collaboration between the department and APSA coincided with the establishment of the Social Sciences Lab at the college and thus, both workshops aimed at supporting the mission of the lab to disseminate cutting-edge skills among the faculty.