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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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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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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.”

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Intersectional Anthropology as an Avenue Toward Praxis, Pedagogy, and New Anthropological Horizons

Anthropology News

Kimberlé Crenshaw stated that in its original formulation, Intersectionality worked to expose “ how single-axis thinking undermines legal thinking, disciplinary knowledge production, and struggles for social justice.” I received my Ph.D. in 2023 from the University of Florida (UF) as part of the “COVID generation” of students.

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Renowned HBCU creates a ‘safe haven’ for Black feminist and queer studies

The Hechinger Report

The women’s college received 13,614 applications for the fall of 2022 – a 48 percent increase over the 9,179 who applied in fall of 2019, according to a spokesperson for the college. Application figures suggest increased interest in Spelman over the past few years.

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