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Rural universities, already few and far between, are being stripped of majors

The Hechinger Report

The University of Alaska system has scaled back more than 40 academic programs , including earth sciences, geography and environmental resources, sociology, hospitality administration and theater. Spending on higher education fell in 16 of the 20 most rural states between 2008 and 2018, when adjusted for inflation.

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“Living with Javelinas”: New Book Under Contract

Anthropology 365

Johnson, University of Texas at San Antonio As the human population continues to expand into what was once wilderness, people increasingly come in contact with wildlife. Living with Javelinas explores how humans and nonhumans can coexist in ways that respect the autonomy and agency of all beings involved.

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With Money From Facebook, 10 Colleges Turn Their Campuses into ‘Metaversities’

ED Surge

Diving into a magnified human cell. 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. Studying stars from the surface of the moon. Tossing a Frisbee on the quad with a classmate who lives 700 miles away.

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Beyond Screens: The Benefits of Paper-Based Learning for Elementary Students

Studies Weekly

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. Delgado, P.,

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Middle school science teachers often have shaky scientific knowledge

The Hechinger Report

Only 7 percent reported feeling “very well prepared” to teach lessons about modern physics, 19 percent about electricity and magnetism and 21 percent about the properties and behaviors of waves, a 2018 National Science Foundation-supported survey found. The second is ‘what claim to expertise does this person have?’”.

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"Mourning can't be an endpoint"

Living Geography

Surviving it demands we build a world that treats everybody — human and non-human — as worthy of life and possibility. The storm that is upon us will leave nobody untouched.

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Qatar 2022: Controversial geographies And data

Geogramblings

I, like so many Geography teachers, jumped on this as a learning opportunity. Looking back at the resources that I created (below), I attempted to highlight the issues surrounding human rights alongside logistical controversies such as the climate and resources. Also, has anything changed significantly in the 6/7 years since I made it?