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AlphaGeo

Living Geography

It claims to "Future Proof your Geography". Thanks to Bob Lang for the tipoff to AlphaGeo's data and mapping. The first of the resources can be found by clicking the EXPLORE button top right. This reveals some trends mapping. It includes a range of Risk Data. The methodology is explained.

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Experience the World with the Latest Edition of Geography Alive!

TCI

Geography education plays a pivotal role in cultivating global awareness and critical thinking. At TCI, we believe that geography class should be an immersive experience where students see the world through a geographer’s eyes. The much-loved Geography Alive! With Geography Alive!

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10 building blocks for the future of schools

Dangerously Irrelevant

Online communities of interest that supplement and augment more-traditional learning communities that are limited by geography and time. Alternative credentialing mechanisms that enable individuals to quickly reskill for and adapt to rapidly-evolving workforce needs and economic demands.

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A study finds promise in project-based learning for young low-income children

The Hechinger Report

“This study shows that a well-designed project-based curriculum might be more effective than traditional instruction.” It’s a lot more involved than tacking on a project to a traditional unit of study by assigning students, for example, to make shoebox dioramas about a book they’ve read.

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Upskilling Trend Brings Coupons, ‘Flash Sales’ and Other Marketing Gimmicks to Higher Ed

ED Surge

Coursera, another giant online provider that works with traditional colleges, runs special rate promotions as well. In a crowded market, where the barrier of geography has been eliminated, providers of online education say they have been forced to spend more time, energy and money on marketing.

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Croissants aren’t French and pizza sauce isn’t Italian – the national dishes that aren’t from where you think

Geography Education

Migrant from what are now the countries of Syria, Lebanon, Israel, and Turkey brought the Middle Eastern traditional manner of cooking meat and it became a new thing when it can to Mexico. Street tacos made with meat cooked on a rotating spit (al pastor) came to Mexican after WWI and the collapse of the Ottoman Empire.

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OPINION: Why the national teacher shortage is really a distribution problem

The Hechinger Report

We have an oversupply of highly qualified educators in some communities and extreme shortfalls in others — often those that have been hollowed out by decades of policy stagnation, economic disinvestment and white flight. This is especially true in lower-income urban districts, where academic challenges are the greatest and most persistent.

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