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Seminar Series on SNCC and Grassroots Organizing

Zinn Education Project

The series, funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities, is focused on six themes that are at the heart of SNCC’s history of grassroots organizing: the organizing tradition, voting rights, Black Power, women and gender, freedom teaching, and art and culture in movement building.

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My School Learned The Hard Way That Edtech Saves Time, But It Can't Solve Human Problems

ED Surge

A former student of mine shared this opinion in a class seminar about Transcendentalism. Using Technology to Solve Human Problems Shortly after implementing the packaged SEL curriculum, students became noticeably wary about entering these conversations. I’m so sick of hearing about self-care and feelings.

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The Future of Democracy Depends on a Quality Civics Education

ED Surge

When I was a full-time history teacher at Stella Middle Charter Academy in Los Angeles, my eighth graders had just finished a Socratic seminar discussing several questions about race and immigration in 19th-century America. By empowering our students to think historically, they can redefine the political sphere.

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Why the preteen years are a critical period for brain development

The Hechinger Report

But Ron Dahl, who directs the Institute for Human Development at the University of California, Berkeley, argues that adolescence is actually a second opportunity to invest in children because of the enormous brain development during this period. “It’s 27, 2020 seminar on adolescent learning and well-being in Berkeley, California. .”

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What’s school without grade levels?

The Hechinger Report

But as the movement against seat-time learning grows, more schools nationwide will be grappling with grade levels, deciding whether to keep them or to hack through thickets of political, logistical and cultural barriers to uproot them. Still, it has been hard enough to schedule just one weekly seminar, he said. Weekly Update.

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Call for Fellowship Applications: Exploring the Assumptions of Cultural History

Society for Classical Studies

Often, the product of this influence is a colonialist narrative that presents past cultures as flawed or inconsistent (because they fail to meet modern criteria) and modern (usually Western) cultures as the resolution of these inconsistencies. Fellowships will be distributed equally across the 2025-2026 academic year (i.e.,

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Exploring the Assumptions of Cultural History: Call for Fellows

Society for Classical Studies

Exploring the Assumptions of Cultural History: Call for Fellows kskordal Mon, 03/04/2024 - 13:37 Image The Future of the Past Lab and the Center for Premodern Studies at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities are excited to announce a three-year series of visiting fellowships titled “Exploring the Assumptions of Cultural History.”