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Economics Activities

Ashleigh's Education Journey

There are SO MANY fun ways to make economics activities engaging and hands-on for students, and it’s a great way to incorporate a little math into instruction. This post shares some of my favorite ways to teach economics to upper elementary students. I begin my economics unit by teaching about goods and services.

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Study: The U.S. isn’t doing enough to prepare students for the automation age

The Hechinger Report

The United States is lagging behind other wealthy nations when it comes to preparing students for workforce changes wrought by automation, according to a new study by a research group affiliated with The Economist magazine. Those that are have long had a clear focus on human capital development.

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Jehovah’s Witness Are Learning Chinese to Evangelize in Zambia

Anthropology News

Congregants meet twice a week to read and discuss the Bible, have Q&A sessions for The Watchtower magazine teachings, and sing worship songs. Even with increased interactions through evangelizing, there have been growing anti-Chinese sentiments in Zambia in recent years, often based in economic inequalities between the countries.

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With enrollment sliding, liberal arts colleges struggle to make a case for themselves

The Hechinger Report

Related: How to save the humanities? Fewer than one in 20 of all degrees now are in humanities disciplines traditionally associated with the liberal arts, according to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. Leave this field empty if you're human: Small private liberal arts colleges also continue to close, most recently St.

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Vocabularies Unknown: The Future Is Personal

Anthropology News

Regardless of its conceptual newness, the narrative of AI is often framed within existing tropes of power dynamics, economic motivations, and ownership. Result African companies facing economic difficulties in 2024 are turn into artificial intelligence to reduce marketing and advertising expenses, raising concerns about potential job losses.

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Clusters of black science majors offer a map for future investment

The Hechinger Report

But, as Bernard Coleman III wrote in a Forbes magazine op-ed in January, people, especially in Silicon Valley, still ask advocates for diversity to “make a business case” for it. Leave this field empty if you're human: But the people in power don’t really believe they need to hire black people or women to be successful. Weekly Update.

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We know how to provide good child care, we just don’t insist on it

The Hechinger Report

The series was produced by The Hechinger Report and Columbia Journalism School’s Teacher Project , nonprofit news organizations focused on education coverage, in partnership with Slate Magazine. Sign up for our newsletter. Or view the whole series. Imagine that you have just entered a room with 12 2-year-olds in it. Weekly Update.