Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 31, 2017

Like many teachers, I would tap into the the Library of Congress, which would give me tips for teaching with primary sources , including quarterly journal articles on topics such as integrating historical and geographic thinking. We could engage in government simulations at GovGames or iCivics or Cyber Nations.

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Digital Promise

JUNE 30, 2020

But not everyone has reaped the benefits of Nashville’s economic growth equally, particularly among the approximately 55,000 adults without high school degrees. Nashville Public Library. Nashville Public Library. Collaborating Organizations. Nashville Adult Literacy Council. YWCA of Nashville. Service Delivery Partners.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 30, 2020

Economic disparities across education systems mean some students have access to laptops, to regular internet access, to printers. Students without home internet access will likely need to go to public spaces, such as libraries and restaurants, to keep up with their coursework. Access to content. Housing and food insecurity.

Primary Sources 117

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Digital Promise

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

and it affects the allocation of more than $800 billion in federal government funding nationwide. Critical programs and services that adult education communities rely on, such as libraries and nonprofit organizations, could be impacted. The census count is used to determine representation in state capitols and Washington, D.C.,

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 4, 2020

Some members of the institution’s own governing board were surprised when they were confronted with these facts. That does not include athletic facilities, dorms, dining halls, libraries or labs. In a system of shared governance, they’re also served by keeping the faculty content. Other spending, too, continued to go up.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 15, 2024

Department of Education promise, and many are calling for an urgent push for help, including through legislation and a marshalling of resources from institutions like libraries and groups such as AmeriCorps. “I Still, if they can’t fill out the form and the government can’t turn the forms over to schools in time, it’s game over.

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Digital Promise

JUNE 19, 2019

We do this through free workshops, diversity scholarships, and partnerships with local government and workforce development agencies to offer funding for low-income workers and unemployed residents. We hope to expand these through a local partnership with libraries and breweries (Beer & Code!). Anyone can do it!

Economics 110

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

New research from the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies puts these challenges in perspective. Even after service providers launched discounts for broadband services during the pandemic — often targeting online learning — Black Americans across the South saw little change in their access to broadband services.

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Teaching American History

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Czarnecki, a 2022 graduate of the Master of Arts in American History and Government program, wrote the paper for a “Great Texts” course taught by Professor Stephen Tootle on John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath. Lomax hoped the young men would bring back audio documents for the Archive of American Folk Song at the Library of Congress.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 4, 2020

Given the educational and economic divide between rural and nonrural America, this may be the most important college access program you’ve never heard of. By 2019, Ayers had helped impoverished Perry County reach an 86 percent college-going rate (57 students), the highest in the state, according to government figures.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

So the state improvised an internet solution through the Kids Connect program , which created more than 1,000 wireless hotspots in parking lots at schools, libraries and parks. But he tries to make clear to Kentucky lawmakers how improving equity in higher education connects with the state’s economic goals. Thompson said.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 8, 2020

Luis Gallardo’s favorite place to study was the library at the University of California, Berkeley. Only 14 percent of the lowest-income students earn a bachelor’s degree within eight years of first enrolling, according to the most recent government data. The coronavirus pandemic is exacerbating those pressures.

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Marginal Revolution

JANUARY 19, 2024

Think of this as a sequel to Kyle Harper’s tract on Roman plagues and their political import , this look at the Antonine plague and its impact has both good history and good economics. Avery good guide to the intellectual life surround the period of the Pompeii library scrolls that will be deciphered by AI. Population is 2.3

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ACRE

APRIL 15, 2024

Marcus Witcher and covers the 1932 election, the transition of power from the Hoover to FDR administration, and early economic policies designed to combat the Great Depression. The lesson could be used as a precursor to a unit on the New Deal in history classrooms or as a case study on economic policy impacts in a social science course.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 16, 2017

Students study for classes at a government school on the edge of the Thar Desert. About 65 percent of India’s students attend similar government schools, many with dismal outcomes. Just a few miles away from where Ballani teaches, Michael Daube is raising money for the new girls’ school and economic center in Jaisalmer.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 12, 2017

Still in its early stages, this ambitious project relies on a little-known public resource — a slice of electromagnetic spectrum the federal government long ago set aside for schools — called the Educational Broadband Service (EBS). Josh Walton, principal, Walton Middle School, in sAlbemarle County, Virginia. It just wouldn’t be fair.”.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 7, 2020

In the midst of such disruption — with hastily prepared classes delivered remotely, and without professors’ office hours, libraries or advisors — students were demanding the option to pass or fail their courses this semester, instead of getting letter grades. This story also appeared in PBS Newshour. Many universities and colleges agreed.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 30, 2018

We’re ahead of the game in terms of awareness of the problem,” said Daniel Weinstock, director of the Institute for Health and Social Policy at McGill University, which has received a grant of nearly 1 million Canadian dollars ($730,134) from the provincial government to study why people leave and what might make them change their minds.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 23, 2019

Angie Perez and some of her classmates are studying together in a covered plaza that connects a classroom building with the law library at St. The federal government even charges higher interest rates for graduate than for undergraduate loans : 6.6 Alicia Vera for The Hechinger Report. MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. Thomas University.

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Teaching American History

AUGUST 20, 2024

Mississippi was the site of the most notorious lynching in the early civil rights movement, the killing of Emmett Till in 1955, and had the highest rates of lynching in the country — violence meant to impose social, economic, and political intimidation. The interest of the country is awakened and … the government responds.”

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ACRE

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Primary Sources Library from the Bill of Rights Institute When teaching the Constitution, we want to offer students time in the classroom to analyze the text in-depth. The Federalist Papers (Accessed through the Library of Congress) Video from Mineola Creative Content on YouTube. Government: PP.2.USG.2

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Political Science Now

MARCH 27, 2024

State Terror and Long-Run Development: The Persistence of the Khmer Rouge By Donald Grasse , University of Southern California Does mass repression have a long-term economic legacy, and if so, what explains persistence? My findings add a novel pathway to the library of mechanisms which explain why historical coercion undermines development.

Political Science 52

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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. Until recently the optimal choice was to seek out as exotic a locale for research as possible; choosing sites closer to home and writing library dissertations were viewed as inferior alternatives.

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Zinn Education Project

JUNE 6, 2024

These past few months I have been working with educators whose Rainbow Library books have been seized by administrators. It is important to understand] the concept of how you suppress people to exploit them economically. In many places, it takes immense courage for an educator to participate in our program. It’s all connected.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 18, 2022

Although the federal government sent a massive influx of money to help schools troubleshoot , it left districts to grapple with how best to use the funds. But educators at Columbus say the number of kids here who need this level of intervention has grown — as it has around the country after uneven learning experiences during the pandemic.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 22, 2018

PORTLAND, Maine — On a recent fall morning in the library of King Middle School here, four seventh-grade girls interviewed an immigrant from Peru named Luis Millones, now a Spanish professor at Colby College. A Crew of seventh graders at King Middle School in Portland, Maine, plays a conflict-resolution game called “Is This Seat Taken?”

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 12, 2016

Rhode Island also emphasized the importance of involving state government in their efforts (the Rhode Island Office of Innovation, led by former Office of Educational Technology Director Richard Culatta, has been a key partner in EduvateRI). edclusters16. Roshni Mirchandani (@roshnimirchi) September 23, 2016.

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Steven V. Miller

JANUARY 12, 2022

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Steven V. Miller

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Does democracy precede economic development? Does economic development precede democracy? His argument is one of “modernization” and his particular flavor of it contends modernization (viz, economic development/per capita income) decreases a major source of political conflict: income inequality.

Library 52

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Teaching American History

DECEMBER 12, 2023

For secondary and post-secondary government and political science educators, we are proud to recommend our CDC volume, Religious Liberty: Core Court Cases. That means developing a skill that is hard to come by for many students of government and politics: namely, seeing that strong arguments exist on both sides of controversial issues.

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Political Science Now

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

The Association promotes a lively, diverse community of scholars, teachers, students, and practitioners who bring wide-ranging interests, methodologies, and perspectives to the analysis and conduct of government and politics. For more information, visit: www.apsanet.org.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 10, 2016

Universities here have been allowed by the government since 2004 to set varying levels of tuition — at first, up to £3,000 per year, or $4,236, a maximum that has since grown to £9,000, or $12,708. The American government, of course, does not regulate tuition, and has no such leverage over universities and colleges.

Government 65

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Steven V. Miller

OCTOBER 24, 2024

If you’re interested in topics of economic development, population growth, corruption, education levels—or almost anything else in the cross-national context—the World Bank’s DataBank has you covered. library ( tidyverse ) # for most things library ( stevedata ) # v. European Union, OECD states), economic groupings (e.g.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 19, 2018

Leave this field empty if you're human: Sitting on the floor of their library, the dozens of students dressed in red and navy blue were an eager audience. The New Zealand government explicitly warns families against picking schools based on only national standard results. Choose as many as you like. Weekly Update. Future of Learning.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 3, 2016

She points out, however, that they do get a period of music, art, physical education or library time every day. The state and federal government has to give us the resources that we need.”. They don’t have the choice to, say, tax real estate developers to fund their schools.” But that’s easier said than done.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 29, 2019

But after a year, Woods realized that his college experience just wasn’t the same as that of his classmates who made friends in the dorms, hung out in the dining halls and stayed late into the night at the libraries. He’s active in student government and his fraternity. He decided to take out even more money to join them.

K-12 75

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Digital Promise

JUNE 15, 2016

To promote student learning and achievement, research indicates that teacher advancement systems should compensate teachers for their expert contributions, particularly in economically disadvantaged schools where teaching challenges tend to be greater (Accomplished California Teachers, 2012). Focus on Student Learning. Lesson study.

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