A Principal's Reflections

FEBRUARY 26, 2012

A few weeks back I passed along an Education Week article to administrators in my District that highlighted the many technology challenges that states anticipate with common tests. What is the federal government doing to help us get the students where they need to be? They want creative leaders and problem solvers with original ideas!

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Moler's Musing

JANUARY 24, 2025

It highlights the weaknesses and problems in America before the Constitutionlike taxation without representation, the Articles of Confederation, Shays Rebellion, and foreign and domestic disputesand positions the Constitution as the solution. The establishment of key government structures.

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Political Science Now

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Chinas Governance in the New Era of Xi Jinping By Elizabeth J. Operationally, however, its dynamic patterns of governance reflect the shifting concerns of a succession of visionary Communist Party leaders. Read the full article. Institutionally, China closely resembles other former and surviving Communist regimes.

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Political Science Now

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Assessing the Ecological Fit of the Social Institutions that Globally Govern Antimicrobial Resistance By Isaac Weldon , University of Copenhagen and Steven J. This article considers AMR as a product of the evolving and complex interplay between human societies and invisible microbial worlds. Read the full article.

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Sapiens

JANUARY 14, 2025

This article was originally published at YES! Their infamous love of liberty, radical egalitarianism, and staunch resistance to being governed by powerful outsiders granted them some celebrity across colonial sources. What they really aim for is to govern the county themselves, from the city of Gualaquiza.

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Sapiens

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

As Logan wrote in a 2016 American Anthropologist article , “chronic food insecurity is a condition that was made rather than a condition that has always been.” Outside forces uprooted that security. Logan and Kuma began to challenge assumptions about why and how hunger became a modern problem in West Africa.

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ED Surge

MARCH 5, 2025

When they were completing individual work or were asked to use a one-page article to find a definition of a physics vocabulary word, I heard a disjointed chorus of Hey, Siri! As September turned to October and I spent more time in the classroom, I also noticed my students rarely used Google for their questions.

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Sapiens

MARCH 17, 2025

Article 10 of the treatya starting point for this seriesrequired that the Dogra ruler, in recognition of British supremacy, present annually to the British Government one horse, twelve shawl goats of an approved breed (six male and six female), and three pairs of Cashmere shawls. million (Nanakshahi) rupees.

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Sapiens

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

In a 16th-century Ain-i-Akbari report on Mughal Emperor Akbars government, an author refers to roti explicitly , explaining that the dish made with flour, milk, ghee, and salt tastes very well, when served hot. As a New York Times article describes, roti is a recipe mastered through repetition.

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Political Science Now

AUGUST 26, 2024

The prize committee thought that the article was innovative, as it challenges our conceptions of valuable components of grading. The article focuses on how to assess learning gains through student effort and engagement as opposed to summative demonstration of knowledge only.

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Political Science Now

MARCH 11, 2025

This piece, written by Ewa Nizalowska, covers the new article by Rouven Symank, “Durkheims Empire: The Concept of Solidarity and its Colonial Dimension.” “ Solidarity, in this period, became both a subject of sociological study and a tool for promoting a less coercive form of colonial governance.”

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Living Geography

JUNE 14, 2024

A new article in 'Teaching Times' by Mary Colwell gives a bit of an update into the state of the GCSE Natural History, and its possible introduction in 2026. We wait to see if the next government will revive it and make it a reality for first teaching in 2026 (at the earliest).

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ED Surge

JULY 19, 2024

That’s particularly the case in K-12 classes, where teaching materials may be hard to parse, according to the preprint of a research article that argues that many of these students have to figure out how to access basic documents on their own, outside of school. While not new, the obligations in the rule have become pressing.

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Political Science Now

MARCH 13, 2025

However, in this article, we share the results of a multi-method investigation into the state of gender diversity in Canadian security studiesa national context in which the university sector has signaled a strong commitment to diversity and the government has actively promoted gender equality in official policy.

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Moler's Musing

MARCH 1, 2025

government? The second source was an article about the backlash to the Gap T-shirt, highlighting the modern-day criticism of the idea. Why or why not? Comparing Motivations : What were the different reasons people moved westward, and how did those reasons create tensions among settlers, Native Americans, and the U.S.

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Studies Weekly

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Lesson 4: How Does Our Government Work? 18, 2020 • Studies Weekly Learning Objectives: Students will identify the three branches of the federal government. is governed. is governed. Explain that after the Revolutionary War, the new United States didn’t have a strong government. government. Constitution is.

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Political Science Now

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

Mallinson , Penn State University States and interest groups are facilitating a redistribution of government powers under a new courts-first federalism. Thus, the combination of model legislation, impact litigation, and courts-first federalism becomes a tool for states to draw power to themselves and from the federal government.

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Political Science Now

AUGUST 29, 2024

This piece, written by Komal Preet Kaur , covers the new article by Adam Michael Auerbach, Shikhar Singh and Tariq Thachil, “Who Knows How to Govern? This assumption raises critical questions: Do local authorities genuinely have the knowledge required for decentralized governance?

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Political Science Now

SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

Who Knows How to Govern? Procedural Knowledge in India’s Small-Town Councils By Adam Michael Auerbach, Johns Hopkins University , Shikhar Singh , Duke University and Tariq Thachil, University of Pennsylvania Governments across the Global South have decentralized a degree of power to municipal authorities. Read the full article.

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A Principal's Reflections

SEPTEMBER 30, 2010

The other day Bill Ferriter told me that he was working on an article for ASCD and asked if I would answer a few questions. In early March of 2009, I was reading my local newspaper, The Staten Island Advance, and came across an article on Twitter. As I read the article I learned more about Twitter and its capabilities.

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Political Science Now

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

Zeemering , University of Georgia Service-learning courses help students to identify career opportunities and foster civic engagement, but links to projects with local governments may be difficult to forge. Read the full article.

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Political Science Now

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

This piece, written by Ewa Nizalowska, covers the new article by Lucas G. In a new article in the American Political Science Review , Lucas G. “Pinheiro’s article suggests that we may have been too quick to frame our present age as “post-industrial.”” Or so we tend to think.

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Political Science Now

MARCH 24, 2025

This Spotlight article focuses only on the lower house of parliamentthe Chamber of Deputies (hereinafter, the Chamber)to which the government is accountable. Read the full article.

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Teaching American History

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

“To be a good member of your community, you really have to understand why people do the things that they do,” says Bryan Little, who teaches both on-level Government and AP Government at McPherson High School in McPherson, Kansas. For Little, government class entails “constitutional study and human behavior study side by side.”

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ED Surge

MAY 19, 2022

A version of this article first appeared at the Medium site of the Stanford GSE Office of Innovation and Technology. As a governance tool, these automated transfers also reduce administrative overhead and record-keeping, which can be challenging for education programs in remote locales.

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Political Science Now

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

We study public opinion toward refugees in Hungary, a highly exclusionary political environment in which anti-migrant and anti-refugee sentiments are commonly invoked by the ruling government. Read the full article.

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Anthropology News

DECEMBER 18, 2024

In this article, I explore the divergent perceptions and expectations surrounding care duties held by elders and their guardians. The 2021 Civil Code introduced multiple new articles on adult guardianship, including the provision for individuals to select their guardians when fully capable.

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Catlin Tucker

AUGUST 22, 2016

My Twitter feed is full of articles and blogs discussing the research on homework, particularly at the elementary level, and how counterproductive it can actually be. It was even worse for those students juggling sports, debate, student government, or afternoon jobs. Homework has been getting a lot of attention in the media.

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Thrive in Grade Five

MARCH 9, 2019

Does this sort of approach to government and daily life make a better settlement? Early American Government Journal Prompts The Articles of Confederation failed because the central government was too weak. Colonists didn’t want another king, so most of the government’s power was divided among the states.

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Political Science Now

JANUARY 16, 2025

The objectives of the special issue are to analyze: The connections between immigration legislation and voting rights cross-nationally as well as variations among national, regional and local governments. The use of intimidation, threat and the racialization of participation to suppress political participation and voter turnout.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 6, 2021

As one young woman put it in a recent New York Times article , “If it wasn’t for these youth work-force programs, I don’t think I would have realized I wanted to be a mechanical engineer.”. The internships could be in government, in nonprofit organizations or in the private sector.

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Teaching American History

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Although “Congress” alone is mentioned, the First Amendment applies to any agent of the national government, including the president. As originally framed, the Bill of Rights guaranteed immunity only from the actions of the federal government, not the states.

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Anthropology News

JANUARY 23, 2025

Like Jehovahs Witness congregations in the rest of the world, Kombela Central Mandarin Congregation is governed by local elders in charge of pastoral work, selecting speakers, and directing public preaching. The names of people and places in this article have been anonymized in order to protect the identity of Haruyamas research participants.

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Strange Maps

MAY 28, 2024

But even without a government, a flag, and most other trappings of actual nationhood, Baltoscandia has a history, a raison d’être , and perhaps even a future. If Russia isn’t yet as bold in the Baltics, that’s probably more because of NATO’s Article 5, which says that an attack on one member state is an attack on all.

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Studies Weekly

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

Primary sources include: Personal correspondence and diaries Government and civil documents Speeches and oral histories Audio and video recordings Photographs and posters Unfortunately, most textbooks provide just facts and figures, not an immersive experience.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

I knew of ChatGPT from reading articles online, but I didn't know how it worked. Being a government teacher and teaching about political elections, I'm really excited to apply what I’ve learned in my classroom. In government class the other day, we used AI to gather background information on past political parties.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 31, 2024

School districts , colleges and government-sponsored programs are dedicating time and resources to diversifying their faculty and staff pipeline , but are we spending enough time focused on policies and programming that aid in retaining quality faculty and staff?

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