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Socrative Review Games for Social Studies

Passion for Social Studies

The Government Review Games and Sociology Review Games are ready to excite students and get them to think critically. Government Review Games Get ready to accelerate and engage your students with these games! Topics include foundational documents, amendments, the branches of government, political parties, and more!

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If I was teaching Social Studies today…

Dangerously Irrelevant

We’d also have access to historical documents from the British Museum – such as notes from an English merchant in Syria in 1739 – and to the prisoner of war archives from the Red Cross. We could engage in government simulations at GovGames or iCivics or Cyber Nations. government as well. Washington University in St.

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College Uncovered: The Rural Higher Education Blues

The Hechinger Report

Andrew Koricich: There are a lot of rural institutions that have sort of been struggling for a while, and you drop the Covid pandemic in the middle of that, which, you know, I think we’ve seen documented so many ways that the rural impacts were just qualitatively different than they were in urban areas. Criminal justice. Philosophy.

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Universities increasingly turn to graduate programs to balance their books

The Hechinger Report

The federal government even charges higher interest rates for graduate than for undergraduate loans : 6.6 With her undergraduate degree in sociology and political science, “I couldn’t get anything more than serving jobs — not to dis on serving jobs,” said Jackie Vazquez-Aldana, a second-year law student at St. percent, compared to 5.05

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Inside the Reardon-Hanushek clash over 50 years of achievement gaps

The Hechinger Report

Hanushek, an economist, believes that the inability to close the achievement gap shows the failure of our education policies to help the poor, especially the $26 billion a year the federal government spends on Title I funding on poor schools and for Head Start preschool programs. Sign up for Jill Barshay's Proof Points newsletter.

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At top colleges that train America’s elite, veterans are an almost invisible minority

The Hechinger Report

In his sociology class, the Western Way of War, he felt it might add to the conversation. “I had sent to war, those students, as government leaders later in life, would think harder before sending other people’s children off to war.”.

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Cultural Dimensions of health - Introduction

Anthropology for Beginners

Then, using published articles as a lens, I document the historical increase in how epidemiologists (and more recently population health scholars) have used culture as an explanation, and in more detail how they use the term today.

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