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OPINION: We need more women scientists, and there’s a lot more universities can do about it

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Each year, the federal government budgets billions of dollars for research and development, and gives much of the money to universities and research laboratories that train and support STEM researchers. Many of the women who earn STEM degrees trickle out of academia after receiving years of government investment in their specialized training.

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New events from the RGS-IBG

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Official measures of multiple deprivation in each of the four nations of the UK are used to allocate billions of pounds of government money. This is important because their impacts are likely to be a partly a function of the deprivation history of an area (e.g.,

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How Water Insecurity Impacts Women’s Health

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The Jakarta Post reported that Sumba went 249 days without rain in 2019. Peru’s northern coast regularly suffers droughts followed by torrential rains, some so severe the Peruvian government has declared states of emergency multiple times over the past few years. GROWING A GLOBAL SISTERHOOD It seems our work has seeded change.

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Native Americans turn to charter schools to reclaim their kids’ education

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Once the site of an Indian boarding school, where the federal government attempted to strip children of their tribal identity, the Native American Community Academy now offers the opposite: a public education designed to affirm and draw from each student’s traditional culture and language. Credit: Sharon Chischilly for The Hechinger Report.

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America’s reading problem: Scores were dropping even before the pandemic

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million students calculated that in the spring of 2021 students in each grade scored three to six percentile points lower on a widely used test, the Measures of Academic Progress or MAP, than they did in 2019. Students in grades 3 through 8 slid 6 percentage points in reading on state tests in the spring of 2021 compared to 2019.

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COLUMN: Should schools teach climate activism?

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The current level of political polarization is having a chilling effect, making civics education into a third rail, according to Holly Korbey, an education reporter and the author of a 2019 book on civics education, “Building Better Citizens: A New Civics Education for All.” “We Related: How do we teach Black history in polarized times?

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TEACHER VOICE: Here’s what I learned from my own classroom mistakes

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However, one teacher, my history teacher, seemed bothered that I had worn African attire to school. He helped me during lunch with my history assignments, and he became interested in the role of immigration in American history. I received lots of compliments from teachers and students.