A Principal's Reflections

SEPTEMBER 14, 2014

One just has to refer to the history books to see how this has played out across the world since the beginning of time. Where there still is forced change turmoil, economic instability, and mistrust run rampant. This is a great example of forced change. Forced change rarely works. Is this the environment we want for our kids?

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A Principal's Reflections

MAY 28, 2017

The work over those years put me into a position of authoring several books and sharing our successes across the United States and then the world. We pitched a book idea to ASCD that wouldn’t just tell educators what they should be doing, but more importantly show them how it could be done.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

FEBRUARY 1, 2020

Books I finished reading (or rereading) in January 2020… You Gotta Have Wa , Robert Whiting [baseball]. Our Towns , James Fallows and Deborah Fallows [economic development, sociology]. The Apocalypse Troll , David Weber [sci fi]. Lucifer’s Hammer , Larry Niven & Jerry Pournelle [sci fi]. Building School 2.0:

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Sapiens

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

In many cases, making roti wasnt a willful choice but an economic necessityor part of unpaid domestic laborwithin a highly gendered and classed society. In Calcutta on Your Plate , her book on Bengali cuisine and gastronomic history, she points out the absence of roti in Bengali meals until the mid-20th century.

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Anthropology.net

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

From political power struggles to economic inequality and environmental exploitation, an evolutionary past rooted in dominance, survival, and competition still drives much of human behavior today. The drive to secure food and territory manifests in economic competition and resource hoarding. Pantheon Books. Penguin Random House.

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Strange Maps

DECEMBER 3, 2024

mi) of the Rail Baltica route, now under construction – underlining the economic benefits that will be realised when the connection goes live, from 2030. Total measurable socio-economic benefits have been estimated at €16.2 But their railway network is still stuck in Soviet times. More on that here.

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A Principal's Reflections

FEBRUARY 12, 2012

Working with partners, they had to choose one painting from each category, study it by paying particular attention to the political, economic, religious, social, industrial, and/or artistic way in which it captures/criticizes some aspect(s) of the period 1500-1800, and record their impressions accordingly.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 23, 2019

Economic competitors such as India and China, which are among the principal sources of customers for American graduate programs, also have embarked on building sprees at universities of their own, which threaten to keep their students home. . Graduate students at St. Sign up for our higher education newsletter.

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A Principal's Reflections

SEPTEMBER 11, 2016

Many states have welcomed them with open arms and pocket books as good leaders are often worth every penny Followed through with a value-added system for evaluating educators, which by the way has no supporting research. To make matters worse, NJ has been the only state to make this a graduation requirement in the near future.

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A Principal's Reflections

OCTOBER 2, 2014

Check out their book titled Beyond Core Expectations: A Schoolwide Framework for Serving the Not-So-Common Learner published by Corwin. Public schools are attended by students from various cultural, linguistic, and socio-economic backgrounds, having different assessed levels of cognitive and academic ability.

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Ashleigh's Education Journey

DECEMBER 3, 2017

There are SO MANY fun ways to make economics activities engaging and hands-on for students, and it’s a great way to incorporate a little math into instruction. This post shares some of my favorite ways to teach economics to upper elementary students. I begin my economics unit by teaching about goods and services.

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ACRE

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Economics Arkansas has created 12 lessons to accompany the videos and can be found on the iNSPIRE Lesson Plans page. These stories must be submitted as an 18 - 27 panel graphic novel created through Pixton, using the comic book feature. Stephens Inc. A free access code will be provided to all participants.

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ACRE

OCTOBER 31, 2022

It’s #EconEdMonth, the time of year where we highlight resources and strategies for teaching Economics across disciplines and content areas. This year, I asked a few Arkansas teachers to share what they love about teaching economics. I have fallen in love with teaching Economics! Here is what they had to share.

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Zinn Education Project

JULY 17, 2024

economic and climate policies that have turned so many people into refugees. Social Justice Books offers a list of recommended books for pre-K–12 on immigration. Politicians are fear-mongering about an “invasion” at the Southern border. Mexico relations and current border and immigration issues.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 20, 2021

These disparities stem, in part, from the fact that not all colleges, programs and majors are created equal when it comes to driving economic mobility. Thus, increasing access to our nation’s most selective institutions is one important factor in increasing Black students’ economic mobility.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Credit: Yunuen Bonaparte for The Hechinger Report In New Jersey, the Educational Opportunity Fund, established in the aftermath of the 1967 Newark riots, helps cover college costs like books, fees and room and board for low-income students. The program is making it possible for Reyes Velasco to attend Montclair State and live in a dorm.

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Digital Promise

MARCH 6, 2018

As an ESL student and a child from an immigrant, economically disadvantaged family raised in blue-collar northern Ohio, I know first-hand the power a good book can have on a child who feels different and inferior from everyone around him. My kindergartner recently came home with an astronomy book written at an 8th grade reading level.

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ASHP CML

APRIL 10, 2025

NEH-funded documentary movies, podcasts, and digital archives have been enjoyed by millions of viewers, as have award-winning books such as A Midwife’s Tale , Laurel Thatcher Ulrich’s history of the life of Martha Ballard in Revolutionary era New England.

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Teaching Anthropology

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

In the weeks leading up to this activity, we cover units on subsistence, economics, and political organisation through the usual mix of textbook readings, interactive lectures, and guest speakers. It is familiar.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 1, 2024

Over 20 years ago, I co-authored the best-selling “ Quarterlife Crisis,” one of the first books to explore the transition from college to the workforce. Such a shift could help facilitate much-needed social and economic mobility, particularly for students who borrow money to attend college. see College Scorecard ).

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ACRE

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Women have always worked, and yet their economic contributions are often undervalued. Her economic history research expands 200 years to provide an account of women’s participation in labor markets over time and describe the history of women’s continuing economic liberation. Dr. Claudia Goldin wanted to understand why.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

People who are currently in these college leadership positions wield significant economic, social and political power, which they have no interest in relinquishing. Without participation from a range of workers, we can’t maximize talent or economic growth. Related: Dress codes are the new ‘whites only’ signs.

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Digital Promise

MARCH 4, 2021

The education system needs to consider a grander vision of success that includes economic stability and positive life outcomes. JCB : I borrowed that phrase from Rebecca Winthrop at the Brookings Institution, who has a great book on the topic. There are many places in this country where this is happening.

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Geography Education

MAY 1, 2024

In a new book called La Cucina Italiana Non Esiste (literally “Italian Cuisine Does Not Exist”), food historian Alberto Grandi claims, among other things, that Italians only discovered tomato sauce when they emigrated to the Americas, where tomatoes are native, in the 19th century.”

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 6, 2025

Math literacy often contributes to economic success: A 2021 study of more than 5,500 adults found that participants made $4,062 more per year for each correct answer on an eight-question math test. Math helped Paul Morton after he left prison, he told me. When he began his 10.5 years in prison, he only could do GED-level math.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

Tools that work for expanding economic diversity don’t necessarily do the same thing for racial diversity, as research indicates. Expanding economic opportunity is important, but we cannot forget racial diversity. She is currently working on a book on admissions post-SFFA, and served as a consulting expert in SFFA v.

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Becoming a History Teacher

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Each clue would lead them to a source about the French Revolution and, as they gained each source, they would debate the causes, ultimately being able to answer the enquiry question about the causes of the French Revolution so they’d have something in their books to show what they’d done. Exhausted by trying to work out the plan?

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ED Surge

APRIL 25, 2023

The need for such varied skills has only gotten more pronounced in recent years, she argues, in these times of “political division, racial violence, extreme rhetoric, intensifying storms, mass shootings, economic crises, global pandemics and more.” Do you worry about politicians trying to stop educators taking the advice in your book?

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Political Science Now

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

This workshop invites applications from scholars studying the history and politics of labor, finance and corporations, racial capitalism, political ecology, economic regulation and the fiscal state. Apply to a Virtual Research Group Workshop here. Deadline: Friday, February 14, 2025, 11:59 PM Pacific Time.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 14, 2023

By highlighting examples from Lorain, Mississippi Gulf Coast, San Jacinto, Pima and Northern Virginia community colleges, Rachel Lipson, co-editor of the book, hopes it can function as a playbook for leaders across the country who want to better serve their communities. Connection to the employer, it shouldn’t be thought of as after the fact.”

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Political Science Now

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

Ours is a post-industrial era, characterized by unprecedented technological innovation and economic growth. For instance, throughout the early 2000s, the company hired a cohort of low-wage subcontractors, known as “ScanOps,” to scan printed matter for Google Books.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 12, 2023

And back in 1998 he had even co-written a book complaining about how, in his view, multiculturalism was leading to group-think, and how he wanted to “reverse the tragic disintegration of American universities and restore true academic excellence.” Thiel had long been looking for a way to blow up higher education.

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Political Science Now

JULY 30, 2024

The Merze Tate – Elinor Ostrom Outstanding Book Award , formally the APSA Best Book Award, is presented annually by the American Political Science Association (APSA) to honor the best book on government, politics, or international affairs. Dr. Olukunle P.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 11, 2020

In another measure of the massive economic toll of the pandemic on higher education, the resulting shutdowns have been singularly devastating to the college towns in which these campuses are situated. Related: What has happened when campuses shut down for other disasters? Mindy Domb, whose district includes Amherst.

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ED Surge

JUNE 16, 2023

So adjunct and other faculty unions have ramped up demands for economic justice. These alarming economic facts for most in adjunct life are in addition to their day-to-day struggles. Why are so many adjuncts mobilizing now? Adjuncts’ already precarious situation has worsened in the wake of the pandemic and continuing inflation.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 26, 2021

First, I moved the thousands of books cluttering my office space to storage. At the same time, ensuring that college students are getting the best learning experiences possible is urgent, to prevent a steep drop in graduation rates as the country grapples with economic crisis. I bought paint ($170) to re-do the walls.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

This morning I also received a pitch for a new book, Deliverology in Practice , which purports to show leaders how to. The last thing we need is MORE emphasis on lower-level learning (see, e.g., the economic data and the student engagement data ). Yet the workshops and books and policies continue… Related Posts.

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