ED Surge

APRIL 10, 2024

Ken Dirkin, senior director of the Michigan Virtual Learning Research Institute, said the group wanted to create a document that was digestible, but “there’s probably 40,000 important things that could have been included.” The more we disclose the use of AI and the purpose, the more we uplift everybody in the conversation,” Dirkin says. “The

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Teaching American History

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Two graduates of the Master of Arts in American History and Government (MAHG) program submitted essays on how they teach these skills to the Bill of Rights Institute’s 2023 National Civics Teacher of the Year Award , placing among the top ten finalists. They teach self-government as a cooperative activity. Yet both go further.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

The impacts of heat on students’ health and learning is well-documented; studies have found that without air conditioning, every 1 degree Fahrenheit increase in temperature during a school year reduces the year’s learning by 1 percent. Government Accountability Office.

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Doing Social Studies

OCTOBER 22, 2021

Nathan McAlister is the Humanities Program Manager – History, Government, and Social Studies with the Kansas State Department of Education. One, offer examples of websites to use in your classroom, and two, provide a few rules to guide your excerpting of documents. My goal, for this blog post is twofold. Let’s get started.

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Anthropology for Beginners

AUGUST 17, 2023

Fischer, and other German scholars recruited by the Russian government to report on the peoples of the newly explored eastern territories. On the other hand, ethnography also designated the aspiration to collect systematically, and according to rigorous procedures, facts about human languages, customs, arts, and achievements.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Georgetown University’s Edunomics Lab documents the divergence between the growth of school staff and students. Starting in 2020, the federal government sent schools more than $200 billion in pandemic recovery funds. See detailed graphs below. The third act was a pandemic-fueled “hiring bonanza.”

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Mental health clinicians and researchers have begun to notice and document what they call climate anxiety or eco-anxiety , which is defined as chronic stress caused by concern over the effects of climate change. These mental health challenges are not pathological, but considered to be normal human responses to a rapidly changing world.

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Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 23, 2023

They observed variations in animal flocks' sizes and documented different grazing practices, indicating an adaption to environmental conditions and an integration of livestock practices with early agricultural methods. A) Above: Image of the southern slope of Sierra de Tucas (Huesca, Spain). 1 Navarrete, V., Viñerta, A., Gassiot, E.,

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ED Surge

AUGUST 2, 2023

In a world that has denied my humanity, literature has offered affirmation, consolation and direction. As a reader, I use Black literature as a tool to reclaim my humanity, my history and my future. I first learned how the government weaponized literacy when I was a child. According to the Nat Turner Project , when our U.S.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

But just off campus in the surrounding neighborhoods, high-speed internet is hard to come by, and it tends to be expensive for folks in a county where Census data show the median household income is $36,802, and the poverty rate is 19 percent, according to Jochai Ben-Avie, chief executive of the nonprofit Connect Humanity.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Email Address Choose from our newsletters Weekly Update Future of Learning Higher Education Early Childhood Proof Points Leave this field empty if you’re human: In some states, child care can cost as much as college tuition. Because child care is not primarily funded by the federal government, the quality and cost vary by state.

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ED Surge

MARCH 15, 2024

To be clear, this assignment would require students to analyze documents and write their own responses using evidence, which are important skills of course, but it would inevitably lead to me manically red inking papers that ultimately were written because I assigned an essay that would only ever be read by me.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Based on these early successes, education leaders in government and nonprofit organizations sought to bring the power of text messages to hundreds of thousands of students. Text reminders of deadlines and general tips might not be sufficient to help students who cannot locate documents or need help answering a question.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Megan Hickerson: And I knew the humanities, because the humanities are always under attack these days, right? Rural voters are convinced that their communities get less government spending than they deserve. Nicholas Jacobs: I’m an assistant professor of government at Colby College in Waterville, Maine.

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Dr. Preece

MARCH 21, 2023

It’s the document that you give to Presidents and Prime Ministers – and say “this is what you really need to know”. Human activities have unequivocally caused about 1.1 Human caused climate change is affecting extreme weather patterns. This includes impacts on food security, water security and human development.

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Civics U

APRIL 21, 2022

Natural rights are rights that are considered to be universal human rights that are granted by nature or God, not granted by society or government and thus not to be revoked by society or government. They are an intrinsic part of human existence. They are not a privilege limited to certain individuals or groups.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 10, 2023

And government leaders are also pushing the trend: many state governors , for instance, have adopted skills-based hiring for state positions, and the U.S. However, the human resources function has historically lagged behind other business areas in adopting data-driven approaches. Department of Labor reported a near-record 9.5

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Teaching American History

APRIL 16, 2024

Primary documents give us unexpected perspectives on history. Landen Schmeichel sees this often when using documents in his Advanced Placement US History course at Legacy High School in Bismarck, North Dakota. Liberty and Equality: Ideas That Shaped America Primary documents prompt reflection on powerful ideas.

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Teaching American History

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

The next school year, she was asked to teach not only the regular-level geography course but also AP Human Geography and World History. The next fall, Livingston took a job teaching civics and government at a public middle school. He told her about the Master of Arts in American History and Government (MAHG) at Ashland University.

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ASHP CML

OCTOBER 11, 2022

This summer thirty middle and high school teachers from throughout the United States joined the ASHP/CML for a National Endowment for the Humanities-funded Summer Institute on LGBTQ+ Histories of the United States. The institute introduced the rich body of recent scholarship covering the span of U.S.

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Civics U

JULY 18, 2022

documented the often negative effects of “modernization” and “progress” on indigenous peoples around the world. WHICH WAY PROGRESS There is some kind of cost, whether human or environmental, to any type of progress. Bodley, in his book Victims of Progress, 2 nd Ed.,

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Anthropology News

JUNE 18, 2024

Take Susan Blum’s work on plagiarism, which documents the disconnection between old-school academic standards and today’s students. As one student said, “I am mostly concerned about AI replacing human interactions in the classroom.” Further, varied government and regulatory agencies have pressed for widespread AI literacy training.

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ED Surge

APRIL 8, 2024

Child care, Gale explains, was essential to allowing these workers to do their jobs, and during the emergency phase of the pandemic, the federal government seemed to agree, sending between $30 and $34 per day per child of each essential worker directly to the providers who cared for them. Gale and children working at a raised garden bed.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 21, 2021

As I dug into the rules governing informed consent in educational research, I was surprised to learn that parental consent often isn’t required by law. Video and audio recordings and photographs, often used to document what is going on in a classroom during a study, require parental consent.

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ED Surge

JULY 22, 2022

Sarah Glynn Women in Construction is the kind of program that leaders in the federal government say can help more women succeed in registered apprenticeships—and then break into better-paying fields. There is broad recognition that we are leaving a lot of talent on the table when we exclude women from certain occupations.

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Civics U

JUNE 2, 2022

Even though God is not mentioned in the Constitution, and the first amendment prohibits the government from establishing religion, various characteristics have identified the country as a Christian nation: 1. But the realization that human reason has limits led to a belief that there is no universal moral standard that can be known.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 27, 2024

In the early 1970s, Lester, known in court documents as Larry P., Embedded in too many schools’ practice and policy, to this day, is the idea that an intelligence test score can somehow measure human potential. In addition to systemic and policy changes, we also need a shift in mindset. It does not.

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Sapiens

JANUARY 25, 2024

A nopheles mosquitos that carry malaria-causing parasites spread the disease to humans. MEDICAL STUDY AND TREATMENTS Sickle cell anemia was first documented in medical literature in 1910. Government and communities have a responsibility to make living with sickle cell bearable—even convenient.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 4, 2016

State officials at the highest levels have been aware of these problems for years and have repeatedly failed to fix them, according to internal documents. Tennessee’s VR office has long struggled to serve its clients effectively, federal documents show. They need more counselors to efficiently meet the demand for services.”.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 13, 2020

More than half of university trustees in a survey conducted by the Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges said they were concerned about the financial futures of their institutions. The survey was released in late January — before the market went into its slide. million to $7.5 million.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 5, 2023

Gavin Newsom, whose administration launched the program, has called it a way “to restore the social contract between government and its citizens,” one “that says if you work hard and dedicate yourself in service to others, you will be rewarded with opportunity.” The creators of the program hope other states will replicate it.

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Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 13, 2019

Their immersive stories will be screened at the United Nations Headquarters in New York on September 24 and 25, days on which heads of state and government from around the world will gather to comprehensively review progress in the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the 17 SDGs. Photo Credit: Rafael Bittencourt.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 6, 2023

Bryanna Lyons, a first-year student majoring in human development and family studies, is one of them. Related: Most college students don’t graduate in four years, so colleges and the government count six years as “success”. Last year, 136 entering students signed up, from among CCRI’s enrollment of nearly 12,000 , LaPointe said.

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Let's Cultivate Greatness

JULY 5, 2023

Founding Document Posters – Post poster-sized replicas of key founding documents related to your US History and Civics classes. Travel or Hobbies – Find a way to highlight your outside hobbies to humanize yourself. You will be gesturing to them and pointing things out every single day.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

In the 10 years through 2016, college tuition and fees increased by 63 percent , or three times as much as all the other products and services measured by the government, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reports. But that time appears to be over.”. College is still expensive. Annual increases in the cost of college long surpassed inflation.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 2, 2019

A government-funded foundation in the United Kingdom is trying a new approach, something it calls “ ed tech testbeds.” To be selected, a product must already be used by at least 25 schools in the UK and it should be aimed toward reducing teachers’ workloads, a UK government priority. Choose from our newsletters.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

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