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Would You Rather: Transfer and Apply

Catlin Tucker

Option 1 Science: Design a new experiment to test a scientific hypothesis Science: Write a research paper on an environmental issue Math: Solve a set of problems and explain your solutions in a video tutorial Math: Develop a math game that helps others learn about a mathematical concept or process English : Write an essay analyzing the symbolism in (..)

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OPINION: As the coronavirus drives students apart, one college devises a course to keep them together

The Hechinger Report

Each week, students submit a found “artifact” — an image, an object, a news story, a meme — that encompasses both their learning in the course and their personal experience of the coronavirus. The artifacts will be part of a permanent online collection of Covid-19 materials in the college’s special collections department of the library.

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Call for Applications: 2025-2026 Hellenic Research Fellowship Program

Society for Classical Studies

Currently numbering over 83,000 volumes and 500 linear feet of personal papers and institutional archives, it comprises a large circulating book collection, journal holdings, electronic resources, non-print media, rare books, archival materials, art, and artifacts.

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OPINION: How best do we teach kids about Holocaust horrors? Show them what it was like

The Hechinger Report

The immersive nature of virtual reality allows users to gain a deeper understanding of the scope and scale of the Warsaw Ghetto as they manipulate and examine artifacts destroyed during the war. Michael Haley Goldman is the director of Future Projects at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.

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Call for Applications: 2024-2025 Hellenic Research Fellowship Program

Society for Classical Studies

Currently numbering over 80,000 volumes and 500 linear feet of personal papers and institutional archives, it comprises a large circulating book collection, journal holdings, electronic resources, non-print media, rare books, archival materials, art, and artifacts.

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Why Our Students Aren’t (and Can’t Be) Historians

4QM Teaching

That rubric defined “rigor” as student engagement with primary source texts and artifacts. In other words, that’s what they expected to see in a high-functioning social studies class. Jon and I believe very strongly that students in social studies classes should engage with meaningful artifacts created by the people we’re studying.

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Correlating Democracy and Per Capita Income: A Simple Introduction to an Old Finding

Steven V. Miller

There are any number of reasons to be skeptical about what Lipset (1959) argued, certainly with the benefit of hindsight and over 60 years of social science research. Democracy is more likely to emerge as a system of governance in the absence of violent conflict to settle questions of redistribution.

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