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The overlooked power of Zuckerberg-backed learning program lies offline

The Hechinger Report

Students chose their sites from a group of 10 photos, making inferences about how the climate and other factors might affect the geography based on what they saw in the photos, things like sea water, clouds, farm fields and evidence of erosion on rocks.

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Are we ready? How we are teaching – and not teaching – kids about climate change

The Hechinger Report

The experts raised similar concerns about a Houghton Mifflin Harcourt social studies book, Texas World Geography, which they said gave undue weight to critics who suggest that the current warming is due to the Earth’s natural cycle. What the critics are saying is factually inaccurate,” wrote one reviewer.

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Schools Were Just Supposed To Block Porn. Instead They Sabotaged Homework and Censored Suicide Prevention Sites

The Hechinger Report

We’re setting up a system in which students, by the accident of geography, are getting very different kinds of education,” Ross said. “Do Securly is one of the most popular web filters, used in more than 20,000 schools, and its “sexual content” category covers “websites about sexual health and LGBTQ+ advocacy websites.” Is that fair?”

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Former Trump commissioner blasts DOGE education data cuts

The Hechinger Report

You’re talking about millions of dollars worth of investment just vanishing because someone canceled a contract too early without knowing what they were doing, said James (Lynn) Woodworth, who served as the commissioner of the agency, known by the acronym NCES, from 2018 to 2021. Many of those data collections were canceled.

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As Humanities Fight for Support, New Journal Aims to Celebrate Their Role in Public Life

ED Surge

Its open to all disciplines, geographies, periods, methodologies, authors, and audiences across the humanities. The idea for Public Humanities came out of a roundtable on presentism, politics, and academia Wilson attended at the Modern Language Associations annual meeting in 2018. According to Bulaitis and Wilson, thats the plan.