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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Teaching American History

DECEMBER 10, 2024

In addition, seven states attached a prefatory declaration of rights to their frameworks of government: Virginia (June 1776), Delaware (September 1776), Pennsylvania (September 1776), Maryland (November 1776), North Carolina (December 1776), Massachusetts (March 1780), and New Hampshire (June 1784).

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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. Can the proposed three-tier initiative work?

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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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Sapiens

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

Importantly, the plan for this sanctuary is that the federal government and Native tribes of this part of California will collaboratively manage the CHNMS to protect the region’s marine ecosystems and cultural heritage. If approved, the CHNMS will be the first marine sanctuary in the U.S. proposed by Indigenous peoples.

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Teaching American History

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

This would be especially true in the case of unified government where loyalty to party might come to interfere with the system of checks and balances. Given these concerns, it is little wonder that the Founders did not want parties participating in American government.

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Teaching American History

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

In October, Czarnecki’s article “Migrant Music” was published in The Chronicles of Oklahoma. Czarnecki, a 2022 graduate of the Master of Arts in American History and Government program, wrote the paper for a “Great Texts” course taught by Professor Stephen Tootle on John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath. I had a blast.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 25, 2021

Instead of waiting for the federal government to address the student debt crisis or better hold schools accountable for tuition rates, let’s turn to the industry itself to tackle these challenges. Yet most legislators and educators do not have access to these articles.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 24, 2022

It’s a digital world where internet users retain ownership of their online activities—their intellectual property, or IP—which are tracked by blockchains, which help everyone make money without having to rely on governments, institutions or corporations. Bhaumik Patel DAOs are also emerging at traditional higher ed institutions, too.

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Sapiens

MARCH 12, 2024

Several days later, after I successfully climbed the 5,000-meter mountain, I returned to the cafe to find the kittens just as eager to snuggle with me as I answered emails and worked on articles. In Australia, the government has taken the controversial measure of culling millions of feral cats. Cats are all over Turkey.

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Anthropology for Beginners

NOVEMBER 13, 2022

From the academic perspective, the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) in the United States defines the study of public administration as "A program that prepares individuals to serve as managers in the executive arm of local, state, and federal government and that focuses on the systematic study of executive organization and management.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 27, 2024

This model, which I reported on in an article last year for The Hechinger Report and Scientific American, requires a significant “discrepancy” between a child’s IQ and achievement to establish a learning disability, making it hard for children with lower IQs to qualify. In the early 1970s, Lester, known in court documents as Larry P.,

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 11, 2021

A disclosure here: My husband is an adviser to Lyft, but this article was written independently.). As the Aspen Institute explains, these benefits should cover independent contractors and part-time workers, not just traditional employees, with companies contributing a fixed rate based on how many hours an individual works for them.

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Political Science Now

APRIL 12, 2024

Örsel , covers the new article by Alina Utrata, University of Cambridge, Engineering Territory: Space and Colonies in Silicon Valley As the countdown of a rocket launch, announcing “10, 9, 8, …,” excitement is in the air. This piece, written by Irem B. This situation is like the days when corporations were players in claiming new lands.

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Life and Landscapes

FEBRUARY 22, 2025

This is “Extraordinary Voyages, t he Magazine of the North American Jules Verne Society” , Volume 31, Number 2, February 2025 It includes my article about “Charette and Jules Verne.” That is until the North American Jules Verne Society [NAJVS] published an article wondering if they had ever met.

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Political Science Now

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Universities as means of political control and global diplomacy Governments around the world seek to control their higher education systems. What explains variation in government interventions in university processes, policies, and curricula choices? Submission Guidelines Research articles: traditional academic journal articles.

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Political Science Now

MARCH 11, 2024

Örsel , covers the new article by Diane Bolet, Fergus Green, and Mikel González-Eguino, How to Get Coal Country to Vote for Climate Policy: The Effect of a “Just Transition Agreement” on Spanish Election Results? There may be several ways to deal with this challenge politically, including government stipends or agreements.

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Political Science Now

MAY 22, 2024

This piece, written by Komal Preet Kaur , covers the new article by Martin Naunov, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, “The Effect of Protesters’ Gender on Public Reactions to Protests and Protest Repression.” Some protests face greater government crackdowns than others.

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Anthropology News

AUGUST 11, 2024

These traditional vocabularies continue to obscure the people, places, and acts of creativity on the peripheries of mainstream narratives. But first, the data thief gives a prompt on background generate a story on Africa’s AI narrative result: Semafor article titled AI Ads Are Sweeping Across Africa Prompt.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2017

Institutions including Lebanon Valley College face demographic shifts, constrained family incomes, student preferences toward professionally oriented majors over some of the traditional liberal arts, and rapid technological change. In a recent Hechinger Report article titled “ Is the college degree outdated ?”

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Political Science Now

APRIL 29, 2024

This piece, written by Dirck de Kleer , covers the new article by Kaylyn Jackson Schiff, Purdue University, Daniel S. In a new APSR article, Kaylyn Jackson Schiff, Daniel S. These results suggest that that claims of misinformation are more effective than apologizing, and at least as effective as traditional denials (if not more).

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 29, 2018

She read an article about the Brooklyn high school and learned that students there spend six years instead of the traditional four but they graduate with an associate degree along with their high school diploma – all for free. The new law takes effect in 2019, and over the next six years, the government has designated $1.3

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

If your professor at a public university regularly tweets out articles like “ Are Women Destroying Academia? If you want to learn more about racist customs of fraternities and sororities, including the tradition of wearing blackface, just thumb through a campus’ yearbook.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

Like most of the people interviewed for this article, Kerrach spoke to me in French, through a translator.) The government does not have comparison figures from 2012 to show the precise rate of growth.). Two-year-old enrollment was also a priority for the French government in the 1990s, although the effort was abandoned in the 2000s.

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Political Science Now

MARCH 14, 2024

We argue that parental leave for fathers—a policy reform that disrupts traditional gender roles and promotes less stereotypical ones—has the power to decrease attitudinal gender bias. Read the full article. In contrast, informational, indirect exposure to the reform among the general public produced no attitudinal change.

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Political Science Now

JULY 17, 2024

White Award for the best dissertation in the field of public administration Recipient: Sarah Rozenblum, Cornell University Title: “Why Do Governments Ignore Their Own Experts? Lerner, University of Massachusetts Lowell Title: “Blurring the Boundaries of War: PTSD in American Foreign Policy Discourse.”

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Anthropology for Beginners

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

These scholarly traditions produced a wealth of theory and data that has been discovered by contemporary anthropology, but they do not constitute the historical back ground of the anthropology of peasantry. Such an analysis often arises from developmentalists who focus on traditional obstacles to industrialisation and 'modernisation'.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

JULY 1, 2018

Unfortunately, traditional mechanisms for getting the word out about our work limit our overall visibility and impact. For instance, publishing an article in a peer-reviewed journal may move us closer to tenure and promotion but prevents most practitioners from accessing our work because of paywall and other barriers. How about you?

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Outside of local government and a prison, the primary source of jobs are the farms that have existed since before the Civil War. That’s your tradition, that’s just your Southern tradition.” A 1988 newspaper article notes Issaquena’s 13 public schools closed, too. “I’m going to make sure they’re going to college.

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Let's Cultivate Greatness

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Below, I share my lesson sequence for teaching the expressed powers of Congress in my high school Civics and Government class. Most are contained in a straightforward list within Article 1. With my on-level students, I focus our limited time on the 18 powers listed in Article 1. What are the Powers of Congress?

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Strange Maps

OCTOBER 9, 2024

Apart from its golden-domed headquarters, the campus also includes tyrbes (holy tombs of previous Debedabas); extensive archives on the Order’s history, including audio recordings of Bektashi musical traditions; and a museum and a library. Strange Maps #125x Got a strange map? Let me know at strangemaps@gmail.com.

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MPSA

OCTOBER 12, 2021

million words to Wikipedia, worked on over 4,200 different entries, and created 531 entirely new articles in a range of topics related to Political Science. In a course on African Politics , students created new articles on Voting rights in Nigeria as well as Child soldiers in Uganda.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

The push and pull of reservation life with its ancestral force, spiritual traditions and many contradictions consumes the team as they hunt for an elusive state championship. There’s even a Netflix series based on Powell’s articles. But the book gives equal attention to players as they consider their futures off the court.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 5, 2018

See the Quartz article linked below for a few examples.). People like predicting the future. And people like reading predictions about the future. But there’s rarely any accountability and many, many predictions fail to come true. The forecast is meant to create a bit of a road map, given the expectations for the future.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 10, 2019

That push officially began in 2014, when Deborah Gist, then the state’s commissioner of education, announced a public-private “innovation partnership” to merge traditional and computerized pedagogy. Advocates of personalized learning say that the approach has been unfairly conflated with teacherless, online-only education. The George W.

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Anthropology News

JUNE 18, 2024

Students already using GenAI pointed to efficiency: “AI tools have significantly reduced the time I spend on research” or “I use AI tools to summarize articles for my assignments.” Such worries were accompanied by statements such as “There should be a balance between AI and traditional education methods.” For example, H.R.

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