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What Does Blended Learning Look Like in an AP Class?

Catlin Tucker

I teach AP Psychology, blended and traditional, at a high school in the northwest suburbs of Chicago. Initially, some people at my school expressed concern about whether an AP- level course was the most appropriate choice for a blended learning pilot because of the sheer amount of content to be covered in a year.

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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. I was accepted into several master’s programs in various fields: anthropology, sexuality studies, anthrozoology, and visual anthropology.

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Some universities’ response to budget woes: Making faculty teach more courses

The Hechinger Report

Cynthia Stretch and John O’Connor, who teach English and sociology, respectively, at different campuses in the Connecticut State University System, are among faculty protesting a proposal to increase their teaching loads from four courses a semester to five. There’s a fundamental disrespect for these students.”.

Teaching 113
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Ivy League degree: Now what?

The Hechinger Report

By her senior year of high school, she had taken every Advanced Placement course the school offered. It’s a trip for someone who in high school lingered at McDonald’s for hours “having bought one small drink.” Anthony Abraham Jack, assistant professor of education, Harvard School of Education. She had a 4.0

Economics 107
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‘Easy to just write us off’: Rural students’ choices shrink as colleges slash majors

The Hechinger Report

At the University of North Carolina Greensboro, for example — another institution in a largely rural state, which is in the process of phasing out 20 degree programs, including anthropology and physics — more than half the students are low-income and 35 percent are Black, according to the university.

Geography 136
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Teaching social studies in a polarized world

The Hechinger Report

About 3,500 people attended the conference, among them K-12 and higher ed educators who teach the subjects that constitute social studies — including history, civics, geography, economics, psychology, sociology, anthropology, philosophy, law and religious studies.