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Bertrand Russell’s 10 Essential Rules Of Critical Thinking

TeachThought

Most formal academic ‘platforms’ like public schools and universities tend to parse knowledge into content areas–what is being learned–rather than how and why it is being learned. This, to a degree, reduces the function of pure philosophy.

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What Does Blended Learning Look Like in an AP Class?

Catlin Tucker

In this guest post, Cori Schwarzrock shares her experience using blended learning models in her AP psychology course. I teach AP Psychology, blended and traditional, at a high school in the northwest suburbs of Chicago. Cori Schwarzrock is an AP Psychology teacher at Cary-Grove High School in Cary, Il.

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Next Steps: My Career Moving Forward

Anthropology 365

After graduating high school, I began university in 2003, majoring in biology and psychology. I promised her that I would go back to school and complete my bachelor’s degree. My goal at the time was to work in conservation, ecology, and organismal biology.

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Momentum builds for helping students adapt to college by nixing freshman grades

The Hechinger Report

Called “un-grading,” the idea is meant to ease the transition to higher education — especially for freshmen who are the first in their families to go to college or who weren’t well prepared for college-level work in high school and need more time to master it. historians teaching them in their fancy high schools.”.

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More people with bachelor’s degrees go back to school to learn skilled trades

The Hechinger Report

Related: High-paying jobs go begging while high school grads line up for bachelor’s degrees. But the trend is also exposing how many high school graduates almost reflexively go to college without entirely knowing why, pushed by parents and counselors, only to be disappointed with the way things turn out — and then start over.

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How Water Insecurity Impacts Women’s Health

Sapiens

The United Nations defines violence against women as “any act of gender-based violence that results in, or is likely to result in, physical, sexual, or psychological harm or suffering to women.”

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How colleges can become ‘living labs’ for combating climate change 

The Hechinger Report

Psychology students studying behavior change helped the campus dining hall adopt a practice of offering half, full and double portions to cut down on food waste. This class has two overarching goals,” said Sheridan, who studied anthropology and sustainable development as an undergraduate before pursuing a doctorate in business.