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Both Humans and Technology Are Noisy: How Do We Move Forward?

Digital Promise

Like the Ark of the Covenant at the end of Raiders of the Lost Ark, this report was lost in the vast government archives, but I saved a copy and it has influenced the way I currently see efficacy research and behavioral science research writ large. Human beings themselves are innately noisy and variable creatures. Shilling, R.

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PROOF POINTS: Only a quarter of federally funded education innovations benefited students, report says

The Hechinger Report

Under this program, called Investing in Innovation or i3, the federal government gave out $1.4 Again it worked with different types of students in different parts of the country, and BARR received a third grant to scale it up across the nation in 2017. The failure rate was 74 percent. Source: IES , February 2024.

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Latin American Solidarity in Changing Times  

Anthropology News

La Toma is an Afro-Colombian community that has long sat at the intersection of extractive industries—especially gold mining—and violence from right-wing paramilitaries, guerillas, and government forces. Many older activists today involved in US Latin America solidarity were trained in techniques and tactics during this movement.

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Dr. Kimberly A. Mealy Appointed as the Next Executive Director of the American Political Science Association

Political Science Now

Mealy has developed extensive external partnerships with leaders of other associations such as the National Conference of Black Political Scientists (NCOBPS) and the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), where she has served on the Science and Human Rights Coalition Council since 2017.

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The new labor market: No bachelor’s required?

The Hechinger Report

Larry Hogan announced in March that the state government would strip bachelor’s degree requirements from thousands of job listings. Jared Polis directed government agencies in his state to embrace hiring workers for skills , not degrees. jobs like registered nurse, human resources assistant, or help desk technician.)

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How higher education’s own choices left it vulnerable to the pandemic crisis

The Hechinger Report

Some members of the institution’s own governing board were surprised when they were confronted with these facts. percent from 2009 to 2017, a period during which the S&P 500 index gained 11.2 In a system of shared governance, they’re also served by keeping the faculty content. Other spending, too, continued to go up.

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What I Learned From My Students Who Became Teachers

ED Surge

Even more astonishing, five of my former students decided to become high school history teachers, just like me: Paula Katrina Camaya : a former Chicago Public Schools educator currently teaching civics and humanities at Evanston Township High School (ETHS) in Evanston, Illinois. This is her third year in the profession.