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Just Another Typical Day

A Principal's Reflections

Below is a listing of some of activities that incorporated digital learning: In Mrs. Collentine’s Humanities class, students worked in the computer lab on researching the history of drama and theater in the culture of their own heritage. Groff’s Digital Journalism class researched and wrote stories, as per any other normal day in class.

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If I was teaching Social Studies today…

Dangerously Irrelevant

It also offers a YouTube channel on which historians discuss their work , making history come alive for contemporary youth. The UC Davis California History Social Science Project frames current events within their historical context , connecting students’ present to the past. Washington University in St. government as well.

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STUDENT VOICE: I had fewer opportunities after California banned affirmative action

The Hechinger Report

However, at this point in history, that is not the case for Black and Latino students, even for those who demonstrate exceptionally high educational ability. Erick Ramirez Manriquez is a sociology Ph.D. student at UC San Diego, studying the impact of race on students’ identity construction and educational attainment.

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College Uncovered: The Rural Higher Education Blues

The Hechinger Report

It also cut English chemistry, math, history, finance, accounting, art and other majors — 21 of them in all, or a third of everything it used to teach. Just after she finished the university cut the English program along with math, chemistry, biology, history. But since this performance, the university has ended its music program.

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A university grapples with its links to slavery and racism

The Hechinger Report

Nekkita Beans, a Mississippi native and president of the University of Mississippi’s Black Student Union, stood center stage in a campus auditorium reading aloud the history of a group of men who fought to keep people like her enslaved, illiterate and, in many ways, invisible. OXFORD, Miss. Ole Miss decided to take a different path.

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

The Hechinger Report

Reardon focuses on family income and stitches together different tests over the decades, taken by students at different ages from kindergarten to high school, to document how well rich and poor students are doing. Hanushek has the benefit of looking at just four tests for which he has student scores over a much longer period of time.

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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 I don’t like to lead with this about myself,” he said during a discussion group on Thucydides’ history of the Peloponnesian War, “but I’m a veteran and I’ve been to war.”. “A