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Living With Parakeets and Other Migrants

Sapiens

But many species have traveled across the globe throughout human history, including as part of human trade and migration patterns, and not all of them are seen as problematic. Especially when we broaden the historical scale of our question, the idea of species nativeness gets murkier. The red-ringed parakeet (a.k.a.

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A System for Meeting Absent Students’ Needs (and Everyone Else’s Too)

Cult of Pedagogy

In 2018, approximately 15 percent of American students were considered chronically absent ; in 2022, that number had risen to 28 percent. You’ll get access to our members-only library of free downloads, including 20 Ways to Cut Your Grading Time in Half , the e-booklet that has helped thousands of teachers save time on grading.

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After its college closes, a rural community fights to keep a path to education open

The Hechinger Report

They’re in the fading photos on the library walls of students who, over 177 years, attended the college and the boarding school from which it sprang, and of the Ursuline nuns who taught them, in their simple tunics and scapulars. Homan is compiling an archive of Chatfield’s history. The college has now closed.

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The Power of Microcredentials and America’s Higher Education Dilemma

ED Surge

This semester, the Community College of Aurora rolled out the first microcredentials in its history. According to the National Library of Medicine , at the beginning of the 19th century, the world’s population exceeded 1 billion people for the first time. By 1920, the world had surpassed 2 billion people. In the U.S. Despite the U.S.

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The Importance of Research in Social Studies Classrooms

Teaching American History

A Conversation with Sonja Czarnecki Sonja Czarnecki, 2022 MAHG Graduate “In order to understand history, you have to do history,” Sonja Czarnecki insists. Lomax hoped the young men would bring back audio documents for the Archive of American Folk Song at the Library of Congress. She also pursues her own research.

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Joshua Dunn, Teachers Discuss Judiciary’s Involvement in Education

Teaching American History

Little wonder that Dunn’s course in this year’s summer residential Master of Arts in American History and Government (MAHG ) program, “From Courthouse to Schoolhouse,” drew teachers from urban and rural areas across the country. In its opinion, the court ruled that a school board could not ban books it deemed offensive from school libraries.

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

The Hechinger Report

Today, courses at all grade levels include Indigenous history, numeracy, land-based science and language classes in Keres, Lakota, Navajo, Tiwa, Spanish and Zuni. Last year, nearly 80 percent of graduates enrolled in college, up from 65 percent for the class of 2022. Credit: Sharon Chischilly for The Hechinger Report.