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Cognitive Flexibility: Paving the Way For Learner Success

A Principal's Reflections

A few years back the World Economic Forum came out with an article titled The 10 skills you need to thrive in the Fourth Industrial Revolution. Below is a good definition from the University of Miami : Cognitive flexibility is the ability to shift our thoughts and adapt our behavior to the changing environment. Others are not.

Economics 403
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Rewriting the Past: The Forgotten Bronze Age of North Africa

Anthropology.net

Credit: University of Barcelona The study, led by Hamza Benattia and his team, presents the first definitive evidence of a continuous settlement in the northwestern Maghreb from at least 2200 BCE to 600 BCE. This is the first definitive proof of a fully agrarian society in Mediterranean Africa west of Egypt. This is a crucial detail.

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Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Groups (PVTGs)

Anthropology for Beginners

Definition: PVTGs constitute the most vulnerable section among tribals and inhabit isolated, remote and difficult areas in small and scattered hamlets/ habitats. Definition: PVTGs constitute the most vulnerable section among tribals and inhabit isolated, remote and difficult areas in small and scattered hamlets/ habitats.

Heritage 100
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?You?re stuck?: America wants to reopen its economy. It won?t happen without schools or child care

The Hechinger Report

The Magnolia State’s road to economic recovery has been pitched as a matter of disinfecting workspaces, conducting daily temperature checks, encouraging social distancing and using masks to keep workers and customers safe — and staying patient as the state enters a painful recession. I was definitely scared: Will they hire me back?

Advocacy 144
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How Is the ‘College Is a Scam’ Narrative Influencing Who Chooses to Go to Campus?

ED Surge

He recently served as the first civil society fellow in artificial intelligence and machine learning at the World Economic Forum, where he led research on AI, job quality and work augmentation. Ben Wildavsky, author of the new book, “ The Career Arts: Making the Most of College, Credentials, and Connections.”

Economics 128
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With decisions coming due, sleepless high school seniors worry college may not be worth it

The Hechinger Report

Some I spoke with are rethinking the traditional four-year college route altogether, already a path that less than half of high school graduates opt for. Falling endowments, demographic changes and rampant job losses portend a scary time for traditional models of higher education – and a reckoning may come sooner rather than later.

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Peasant and Peasantry in Anthropology

Anthropology for Beginners

iii] According to anthropologist George Dalton, “Peasants were legal, political, social, and economic inferiors in medieval Europe. 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.