Living Geography

SEPTEMBER 14, 2024

Via my At the Home of Geography blog. Doreen Massey (1944-2016) changed geography. Her theoretical work on space, place and power helped enliven and transform debates across the discipline and well beyond, bringing many into the conversation over the difference that geography makes.

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Living Geography

MARCH 10, 2024

Colin Brock came to speak to us about the "international dimension" of geography and geography teaching, which I guess back then was an attempt to make us consider how we taught about unfamiliar parts of the world. I tried to find out a little more about him, but discovered he sadly passed away in 2016.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 2, 2016

John Jones asks a question to his students in AP Human Geography on August 18, 2016. The current desegregation order, issued in March 2016, mandated a Biracial Advisory Committee to oversee implementation of the desegregation plan. Students returned to Starkville High School in Starkville, Mississippi on August 4, 2016.

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ED Surge

JUNE 1, 2022

I do hope that things like the socioeconomic divide and geography divide can potentially be bridged in education because of some of these new technologies like VR,” he says. He retired from that firm in 2016.)

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 16, 2018

Narrow nationalist parties of various sorts are on the rise around the world, and here in the United States religion, ethnicity, geography and politics increasingly define us. for higher education during the 2016-17 academic year, marking the 11th consecutive year that the number of international students in the U.S.

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Anthropology 365

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Andrea Valdez and Abi Daniel discuss Texan identity in How to be a Texan (UT Press, 2016). David Schmidly and Robert Bradley situate javelinas alongside the other mammals in Texas in The Mammals of Texas (UT Press, 2016). The book considers how these identities shape Texan approaches to the environment and other animals.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 16, 2020

Stony Brook, located about 60 miles east of Manhattan on Long Island, would like to enroll more low-income students, said Matthew Whelan, the university’s vice president for enrollment strategy and relationship development, but he says it is hampered by geography. We don’t have as large an endowment for financial aid as I would like.”.

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Living Geography

JANUARY 24, 2025

Since 2016, we have been exploring what an alternative to consumerism looks like. When it comes to food, our role as individuals is generally limited to that of the consumer choosing between products and using our wallets to vote on where and how our food is produced and processed. We call this food citizenship.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Just since 2016, the proportion of rural students who enroll in college has dropped even more. Jon: So, Kirk, here’s a statistic many people might not know: Rural students graduate from high school at a higher rate than their counterparts in cities and suburbs. But they go to college at a lower rate than suburban students. Philosophy.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 2, 2019

After she earns her license, she’ll enter a heavily male-dominated trade: As of 2016, 97.9 These relationships are carefully nurtured by school staff — and aided by geography. I try to use that as motivation to keep going and show others it’s OK to do things that aren’t expected of you,” Hidalgo said. percent of electricians are male.

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Studies Weekly

JANUARY 10, 2024

The visual geography of paper has memory-linking effects that help students connect what they have read with where they saw it on a page or how far into a book it was. Proceedings of the 2016 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2773–2777. Our brains give more weight to words on a printed page. 2021, May 9).

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Steven V. Miller

JANUARY 12, 2022

What Americans Think about Gun Control: Evidence from the #> General Social Survey, 1972-2016.” Geography, #> Territory, and Conflict.” “External Territorial Threat, State Capacity, and Civil War.” #> *Journal of Peace Research* 51(5): 634–46. #> > #> Gibler, Douglas M., Miller, and Erin K. > #> ———.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2020

Since 2016, when the couple launched an LLC to coordinate much of their charitable giving, the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative has committed $142.1 Free help from the engineers beefed up the platform and spurred Summit Learning’s move into more schools around the country. million in grant support for the Summit Learning Program.

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All Things Pedagogical

JULY 10, 2024

I mention this because I will be talking about geographies of activism and exclusion in a bit, and it is important to remember geographies help inform who we are and our responses and responsibilities to activism, scholarship, who we acknowledge in our citations, and the work that I do in accessibility awareness and inclusive practices.

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Living Geography

JUNE 27, 2024

A Farmers' Weekly article from 2016 shares some concerns about the lack of transparency. Every single day, shoppers are duped and it’s an issue emblematic of a deeply dysfunctional UK food system. For Tesco, they use Nightingale Farms and others. Where is the food really coming from?

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O-Level Geography

JULY 25, 2023

What are the changes in terms of the severity of coral bleaching from 2016 to 2020? Where is the great barrier reef located? Why is there a shift in the areas affected by severe coral bleaching? What cause coral bleaching? How does climate change impact on coral bleaching? What are the consequences of coral bleaching?

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Teaching American History

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Kymberli Wregglesworth, a 2016 MAHG graduate, teaches Civics, World history and social studies electives at Onaway High School in Michigan. Amanda Peters, a 2023 MAHG graduate, teaches AP Government and AP Human Geography at Liberty High School in Frisco, Texas. They encourage students to listen to other citizens’ perspectives.

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Living Geography

AUGUST 24, 2024

It was used in a piece back in 2016 by Robert MacFarlane who described its origins in the writing of Glenn Albrecht. The context was the impact of coal mining on the surrounding area.

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Living Geography

JANUARY 12, 2024

One of the best events I've attended and presented at has been the Practical Pedagogies events that were held in 2016 and 2018. The first was held in Toulouse and the second was in Cologne. Russel Tarr is now organising a third running of the event and the call for sessions is now open.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

The University of Alaska System scaled back more than 40 , including earth sciences, geography and environmental resources and hospitality administration. Fifty-five percent enroll right after high school , down from 61 percent in 2016 , according to the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center.

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Strange Maps

JANUARY 31, 2024

Zooming out from individual casualties to the overall death toll, the dead of Everest start to form a morbid geography of sorts, which does more than simply horrify. Credit: pointofnoreturn.org) This first map shows the geography of the mountain, with a flag planted for each place where one or more climbers died.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 2, 2021

The students at Saint Leo will start with a course that takes a holistic look at the veteran experience, McLees said, and then move to a class that looks at “legendary warriors” from wars across time and geography outside the United States, and a course specifically focused on Native American veterans serving two sovereigns.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

Not long after Cortez Moss accepted the job as principal of Quitman County Middle School in 2016, he realized that his first months would be devoted nearly entirely to teacher recruitment. Teacher shortage is primarily a function of race and geography,” the authors wrote. Barton teaches English full-time at Clarksdale High School.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 12, 2018

A 2016 Gallup poll of students found that just 34 percent of 12th-graders across America feel engaged in school and only 44 percent of 11th-graders report feeling excited about the future. Moureen’s economic ascent, however, may also depend on geography. “I feel it’s different for me because I wasn’t born to have my life planned out.”.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

In a city that recorded 762 murders in 2016, the most in the nation , security measures like these were authorized years ago for every public high school. Yet one student may have limited geography skills, and is not making connections between events in neighboring Laos and Cambodia.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 1, 2017

The Hechinger Report and Reveal asked the state for a list of the primary textbooks used by every public school in all 148 Mississippi districts during the 2016-17 school year. The book was valuable for state geography and basic vocabulary, she said, but using it to teach about the Civil Rights Movement was out of the question.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 9, 2024

Voters banned it again in 1998, only reversing the latest prohibition in 2016. California has removed the official barriers to offering this type of instruction since 2016, and the state now champions bilingualism and biliteracy, encouraging all students to strive for both. Her home state could have kept pace with Texas. But it didnt.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

Roffman said 4-year-olds want to know about geography (Where was I before I was born?); 5-year-olds want to know about transportation (How did I get from in there to out here?); and 6-year-olds want to know about cause and effect (How did I get in there in the first place?).

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Political Science Now

JANUARY 9, 2025

Johnson is a tenured Instructor in Political Science, History, and Geography at Minnesota State Community and Technical College in Moorhead, MN. He has served APSA as Chair of the TLC Program Committee (2015), and as co-Editor of the Journal of Political Science Education (2016-2022). He holds a Ph.D.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 13, 2020

In 2016, two master’s degrees were awarded for every five bachelor’s degrees , the Urban Institute calculated. Some institutions, particularly those in the Midwest, say geography is working against them. Geography doesn’t explain everything. But many less selective universities and colleges have been seeing declines.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 17, 2020

While costs vary widely by geography, age of child and form of care, one estimate pegs the cost of full-time day care at $10,000 per year. The United States is one of the very few countries worldwide without universal child care. Third, adequate nutrition: Most of our peer countries also provide healthy lunches for children at school.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 24, 2024

We’re setting up a system in which students, by the accident of geography, are getting very different kinds of education,” Ross said. “Do Do we really want that to be the case? Is that fair?” Survey data show how these inequities play out. When we look at it, we say, ‘Is there educational purpose?’”

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Life and Landscapes

DECEMBER 30, 2024

It is an important part of Kentucky’s early history, and its geography makes that point certain. But there is one at Airedale, on Route 2016. There is the slender railroad underpass, framing the city’s entrance. I sure wish Dooleys Purple Cow Restaurant was still open! This is Beattyville.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 7, 2019

In 2016, the United States welcomed 84,994 refugees, just six shy of its cap. Only $100 million was received, according to a 2016 report by the Malala Fund. Deng was tempted, as she struggled with subjects like chemistry and geography and the intense pressure to do well on tests. Photo: David Erjok for The Hechinger Report.

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Political Science Now

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Her most recent book, “The Race Whisperer: Barack Obama and the Political Uses of Race” (NYU, 2016), examines the multiple and strategic ways that President Obama uses race to deflect negative racial attitudes and engage with a broad cross-section of voters. magna cum laude) in geography at Prairie View A&M University and her M.A.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

Her efforts led the state to revoke the permit in 2016. People thought of our fight to stop the incinerator cute after school hobby,” Watford told Time magazine in 2016. “It Watford mobilized her impoverished neighborhood of Curtis Bay, canvassing the area for four years. That was a real civics lesson she will never forget.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 12, 2024

Walz, the governor of Minnesota, worked for roughly two decades in public schools, as a geography teacher and football coach. Education vaulted to the forefront of conversations about the presidential race when Democratic nominee Kamala Harris announced Tim Walz as her running mate.

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