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How the ‘Computer Science for All’ Movement Fits In Broader History of Social-Justice Battles

ED Surge

That’s not just because tech is a key to economic opportunity in America these days, but it’s also because of the social good that comes when everyone has a chance to have a seat at the table to build a better future.

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Call for Applications: 2025 APSA Advancing Research Grant for Early-Career Scholars | Deadline: May 6, 2025

Political Science Now

Read about previous grantees and their projects: 2020 Grants | 2021 Grants | 2022 Grants | 2023 Grants | 2024 Grants The post Call for Applications: 2025 APSA Advancing Research Grant for Early-Career Scholars | Deadline: May 6, 2025 appeared first on. Applications are due May 6, 2025.

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Bleeding-Edge Praxis: Leveraging Anthropology and Feminist Science for Emerging Issues

Anthropology News

There is a plethora of research showing how immune , inflammatory , energetic , and psychosocial stress can influence menstruation, and we describe some of it in our 2022 publication. But menstrual variability, like many other forms of human variation, is often ignored when biomedicine focuses on biased conceptions of “normal” human biology.

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PROOF POINTS: Leading dyslexia treatment isn’t a magic bullet, studies find, while other options show promise

The Hechinger Report

Instead, suggesting a way forward, a review of 53 reading studies , led by University of Virginia researcher Colby Hall and published online September 2022 in Reading Research Quarterly, found that much cheaper reading interventions for children with a variety of reading difficulties were also quite effective for children with dyslexia.

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PROOF POINTS: Stanford’s Jo Boaler talks about her new book ‘MATH-ish’ and takes on her critics

The Hechinger Report

Nearly 2 out of every 5 eighth graders don’t even have the most basic math skills, according to the 2022 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP). Boaler also saw math as a lever to promote social justice. In 2022 and 2023, it gave Boaler’s organization more than $560,000. She advocated for change.

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Multimodal ethnographies for teaching anthropological sensibilities

Teaching Anthropology

When I consider multimodality, my mind always travels back to Gregory Bateson’s take on communication and the use of multiple modes of mediation in social interaction. Smith (eds.), Handbook of Visual Communication (pp. Levi-Strauss, C. The Savage Mind. University of Chicago Press. Levi-Strauss, C. Look, Listen, Read. Basic Books.

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Two Programs with Fresh Solutions to the Teacher Shortage

Cult of Pedagogy

In 2022, we explored some of the reasons teachers are leaving the classroom , so we won’t go into them here. “It was written to appeal to Gen Z, so (it focused on) the idea of social justice, of using the classroom as a means for change, literacy as a means for change.”