Living Geography

NOVEMBER 17, 2024

A reference point for this is Michael Gove's 'infamous' and deluded claim from 2016 that people had 'had enough of experts' though a recent visit to a private dentist for complex root canal treatment confirmed that I'd rather have asked him than a local plumber. They need to be experts in the subjects they are teaching."

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Teaching Anthropology

MAY 8, 2023

I first trialed active learning strategies while teaching at the University of Oxford, where one of the challenges of teaching anthropology is the diverse background of the students (Bastide, 2012). Anthropology modules appear in programs in three programs I have taught: Archaeology and Anthropology, Human Sciences, and Music.

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MAY 27, 2020

Andrea Queeley teaches her course about societies and cultures of the Caribbean at Florida International University. The crisis begs the question: When there’s only so much money and only so many students, how should universities decide what to teach and not teach? If you close that program down, you lose all that other revenue.

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Zinn Education Project

OCTOBER 13, 2024

In almost 30 years of teaching, the best anyone could come up with was: “Indians.” 21, 2016, to protest police violence against Standing Rock Water Protectors. So who did he supposedly discover?” I brushed that answer away: “Yes, but be specific. What were their names? Which nationality?” I never had a student say, “The Taínos.”

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

Leave this field empty if you're human: The Alcorn School District in north Mississippi, which has been prioritizing literacy in the youngest grades for the past few years, is among several districts examining what initiatives have most helped improve literacy scores.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2018

By 2016, the high-poverty school district had turned around. We established district-wide instructional calendars, regularly administered formative assessments and analyzed data to pinpoint student weaknesses for re-teaching and remediation. Leave this field empty if you're human: 5. From 2006 to 2016, St. Weekly Update.

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MARCH 18, 2024

billion in grants between 2010 and 2016. billion between 2010 and 2016 to education nonprofits and researchers for the purpose of developing and testing new ideas in the classroom. WWC refers to the What Works Clearinghouse, a library of evidence-based teaching practices. Artificial intelligence is the current obsession.

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JULY 5, 2021

The increase in umpire errors buttresses the idea that humans have only so much attention span that can be depleted after a period of intense effort or concentration. The good news, according to this study, is that humans can quickly reset their attention spans.

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Anthropology News

JANUARY 23, 2025

Congregants meet twice a week to read and discuss the Bible, have Q&A sessions for The Watchtower magazine teachings, and sing worship songs. Like all other members of his congregation, Jonah kept meticulous track of the hours he spent following Jesus command that disciples spread the Truth of biblical teachings to all nations.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Amid the growing debate over how best to teach math, there is another ballooning problem: grades. Grade inflation accelerated after 2016 and intensified during the pandemic, as schools relaxed standards. But college professors didn’t report a similar academic deterioration with their humanities students.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 12, 2018

Leave this field empty if you're human: Ames, Iowa is more than 1,500 miles from Parkland, Florida, but the school shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School felt too close for comfort. Department of Education has supported teaching adults the fight method, but not students. As of 2016, almost 95 percent of students in U.S.

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JANUARY 20, 2020

Education researchers have traditionally focused on the obvious ingredients of teaching and learning, such as instruction, curriculum, student motivation and school funding. A 2016 Israel study found that high rates of pollution on the day of an exam tamped down high school test scores. AP Photo/Nick Ut). Higher Education.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

Related: The next frontier for college programs for prisoners and ex-prisoners: Teaching them entrepreneurship Individuals who participate in educational programming while incarcerated are 43 percent less likely to return to prison , that makes education the most powerful rehabilitative tool a prisoner can embrace.

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OCTOBER 22, 2020

Meanwhile, they were more likely to enroll in courses in hospitality and, in the case of Black students in particular, human services. This year, enrollment in its engineering courses was 44 percent Black and 44 percent white, compared with 31 percent Black and 63 percent white in 2016. He teaches a technology class at J.W.

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NOVEMBER 28, 2017

Yes, he teaches an elective class, so one might argue he has more freedom to do these things. Leave this field empty if you're human: “There are tremendous opportunities,” Isaacs said. “It Isaacs prioritizes student voice in the classroom. He creates opportunities for kids to explore their interests and discover new ones.

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AUGUST 14, 2017

Related: Debt Without Degree: The human cost of college debt that becomes “purgatory”. A 2016 survey by Money Matters on Campus found that only 10 percent of students felt that they had all the information they needed to pay off their loans. Related: DEBT WITHOUT DEGREE: Students drown in debt despite a $524 million state surplus.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 1, 2018

He recalls speaking with a white student he was advising at public Binghamton University in upstate New York, where just 4 percent of tenure-track instructors in 2016 were black, according to federal figures. “He percent of tenure-track instructors in 2016 were black, while 2.7 At the University of Washington, federal data show, 1.8

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MAY 12, 2023

Email Address Choose from our newsletters Weekly Update Future of Learning Higher Education Early Childhood Proof Points Leave this field empty if you’re human: Late last month, Alabama Gov. That’s why a lot of our standards don’t just say, ‘Teachers, teach reading.’” Often, adults misunderstand children’s behavior.”

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Not long after schools closed because of the coronavirus last spring, a Rhode Island nonprofit launched a hotline for teachers who were struggling to launch new technology for remote leaning and trying to figure out how to teach with it. Related: Rhode Island teachers trying out blended learning — but without high stakes pressure.

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JANUARY 22, 2018

Since the fall of 2016, the communications department at Dominguez Hills has banned smartphones, laptops and other personal technology in every classroom — with grade deductions for violations — except for teacher-guided use and “tech breaks” during longer classes such as Eames’s. My guess is it will go to 5 hours plus.

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AUGUST 27, 2018

studied civics in the fall of 2016, they began by exploring a nearby park in Pontiac. They created multicolored posters to explain what different departments of local government do, from sanitation to human resources. ” She said the control allows her to weave in the things she wants to teach, such as vocabulary.

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DECEMBER 6, 2016

Julian Ambriz (left), a teacher joining PUC Schools through the Alumni Teach Project this year, works with his mentor, Justin Gutierrez (right), a physical education teacher, during a training session in July. Photo: Jamie Martines. Research has documented other ways that a teacher’s race can impact student performance. Photo: Jamie Martines.

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ED Surge

MAY 2, 2024

More than 26 members of local and national media were on hand for the splashy announcement (a detail that Carvalho noted in his remarks), and the event also featured a human dressed in a costume of the shiny animated character of Ed, which has also long been a mascot of the school district, for attendees to take selfies with.

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FEBRUARY 21, 2018

Department of Health and Human Services. Leave this field empty if you're human: “The goal is to get kids moving throughout the school day,” Hillman said. Forty-one states require physical education at the middle school level, according to the 2016 annual report by SHAPE , and 46 require it in high school. In the U.S.,

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The Effortful Educator

AUGUST 5, 2024

October 2016. Part I includes research and evidence explaining what we know about how humans learn and memory processing…information that is vital to a teacher doing their job effectively. As Sweller, Ayers, and Kalyuga stated in their book , “Without knowledge of human cognitive processes, instructional design is blind.”

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 25, 2020

Related: Cheaper human tutors can be highly effective, studies show. It can adhere to a specific scripted curriculum or tutors themselves can decide what or how best to teach. One effort to sum up the high-quality research on tutoring was a Harvard study from 2016. Classroom teaching is a much more complicated job.”.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

Leave this field empty if you're human: “They might not be called a fidget spinner but it’s the same thing,” said Paulo Graziano, director of the S.E.L.F.-Regulation He decided to study fidget spinners in 2016 after his then five-year-old daughter asked for them for Christmas. Choose from our newsletters.

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Digital Promise

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

Since 2016, Mr. Cavada and his students have participated in Digital Promise Global’s 360º Story Lab , including the 360 Filmmakers Challenge and MY World 360º. Will Cavada: When I first started teaching the media class it was more of a graphics class based on the print world—Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator. We now have 360º films.

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ED Surge

JULY 1, 2024

Since they were spending so much time with him anyway, the family figured that homeschool would give them control over curriculum and the style of teaching. That meant teaching courses and taking meetings online while devoting several hours in the mornings to homeschooling her son. So the family decided to withdraw him.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 23, 2018

In contrast, Onalaska’s population rose from 731 residents in 2012 to 772 residents in 2016, according to U.S. Back at Onalaska High, Kaylene Kenny teaches a class that’s all about ensuring students know their options. Kenny’s been teaching at Onalaska High School for seven years. Census data. The median age declined from 36.6

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NOVEMBER 29, 2017

But she hung around the classroom for the first few days and felt comforted by the warmth of the teachers, the cleanliness of the classroom, and the emphasis on language instruction, so in the fall of 2016, at the tender age of 2, Lucas started attending school five mornings a week. Sign up for our newsletter. Choose as many as you like.

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2017

They don’t just want to learn physics, AP Vocabulary, and whatever else you’re teaching them. Subconsciously, we turn to our teachers to make us better human beings and we look forward to experiences that they will give us. .” Student interviews were carried out during the 2015-2016, 2016-2017 and 2017-2018 school years.

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MAY 27, 2018

14, 2016 — Former U.S. For example, many black educators feel that their voices are not heard and that they have to “tone down” their personalities to teach. Districts can hire earlier in the year so that they are more assured of the largest possible pool of diverse teaching talent. Secretary of Education John B. Weekly Update.

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APRIL 9, 2018

In January 2016, as tensions boiled over the recent water crisis in Flint, Michigan, I felt anger and frustration — and a twinge of excitement. My experience designing and teaching this unit was a powerful reminder to me of why I teach what I teach and how I teach. I teach at a small liberal arts college.

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 16, 2018

Be diverse in what you teach and read. We also have to avoid the pitfall of teaching about the same historical people from various cultures as well (e.g., We also have to avoid the pitfall of teaching about the same historical people from various cultures as well (e.g., Be human enough to admit them and correct them.

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ED Surge

MARCH 27, 2023

Soon, employees from one of the world’s most influential companies will arrive to teach these students about computer science: how to program computer games, how to work with data and how to found and run a business. The 2016 Ghost Ship fire that claimed 36 lives occurred a few blocks from the Code Next lab.

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JULY 24, 2018

It has to be a framework for how we view teaching and learning.” Leave this field empty if you're human: And there’s evidence for that effect. She sees three central priorities at the movement’s core: relationship-building, repairing harm and creating more equitable environments. Sign up for our newsletter. Choose as many as you like.

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