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Theater, economics and psychology: Climate class is now in session

The Hechinger Report

I was struck by how professors in fields as diverse as theater, economics and architecture were participating in the “living lab” model. Oil and gas companies and their affiliated foundations finance climate and energy research, sit on university governance boards and host student-recruitment events on campus, the report notes.

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5 Ways To Create Positive Parent-Teacher Relationships

Passion for Social Studies

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Will AI Shrink Disparities in Schools, or Widen Them?

ED Surge

It wouldn’t be responsible to lean on AI as the quick fix for all our economic shortages in schooling. Introducing more AI to classrooms, at least in the short term, implies teaching students using screens and virtual learning, argues Rina Bliss, an associate professor of sociology at Rutgers University.

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Peasant and Peasantry in Anthropology

Anthropology for Beginners

iii] According to anthropologist George Dalton, “Peasants were legal, political, social, and economic inferiors in medieval Europe. This relationship, and the prevailing economic forces that impinge upon the countryside, have stamped certain qualities on the peasants and largely determine the underdog position in which they continue to live.

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OPINION: Why school ratings can backfire

The Hechinger Report

We already have good evidence that school and college rankings can distort normal educational processes , reinforcing social hierarchies that govern who enrolls in a school , how those students are treated and what happens to them thereafter. Even “global authorities” can screw up! The correlation is r = -.68 Aaron Pallas is the Arthur I.

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How to Build Strong Writers One Sentence at a Time: A Smart Literacy Strategy for Secondary Students

Leah Cleary

For example: If economics students are reading about US trade barriers with Russia, a targeted prompt and response may look like this: Kernel Prompt: They prohibited this. .” Ask students to answer questions such as “Where?” ” “When?” ” “Why?” ” and “How?”

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College Uncovered: The Rural Higher Education Blues

The Hechinger Report

Jon: But the decline in college opportunity for rural high school graduates is only widening social, economic and political divides between rural America and the rest of the country. They have an economic impact. Rural voters are convinced that their communities get less government spending than they deserve. Jon: Right, Kirk.

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