ED Surge

JULY 11, 2024

There’s a new battle raging in the long-running war over costly college textbooks , one that may strike a serious blow to the textbook subscription programs promoted by publishers and criticized by student advocates. The U.S. Department of Education recently started reevaluating financial aid regulations from 2016 that effectively allow colleges to automatically bill students for books and supplies as long as those materials meet criteria that include being sold at below competitive market rates

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Norton Learning - Sociology

JULY 11, 2024

Virginia E. Rutter is Professor Emerita of Sociology at Framingham State University (MA), where she continues to teach classes on families and methods. She’s a senior scholar at the Council on Contemporary Families.

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Teaching Sociology 98

Digital Promise

JULY 11, 2024

The post How Text-to-Speech Technology is Breaking Barriers for Math Learners appeared first on Digital Promise.

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Strange Maps

JULY 11, 2024

If you’re a band of hunter-gatherers entering a new land, you don’t move in straight lines — you progress in a pattern called “Lévy walks”. Where you go, and how quickly, is determined by the lay of the land, and how it changes over time. Sahul, before it shrank and fragmented Those two insights are the pillars upon which Australian and French researchers have built a new model for mapping how pre-agricultural humans occupied new territory.

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Archaeology Library Humanities Research 92

Living Geography

JULY 11, 2024

There is now an opportunity for GA members to get a discount on GIS courses which are run by the Royal Geographical Society / ESRI UK. If you ask many teachers what they want training in, they often say either fieldwork / NEAs or GIS. This has been the case for quite some time now. It's also important to say that the GIS skills acquired need to be introduced to students in a co-ordinated way, with progression from the Early Years up to 'A' level (and beyond).

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Education 91

The Hechinger Report

JULY 11, 2024

Why do so many young children struggle with word problems in math? Researchers believe one reason is that students often learn to interpret word problems by focusing on key words such as “and” or “total.” Relying too much on key words can lead students astray, particularly because word problems get more complex as students go through school. Because these types of math problems require so many skills beyond number manipulation – like reading and executive function, for example – excelling at wor

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Teaching Research Education 80

Psychology Sorted

JULY 11, 2024

26-28 July. Recommended for IB Diploma Psychology teachers – all levels of experience.

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Psychology Education 97

Political Science Now

JULY 11, 2024

Join APSA for our third webinar in a series exploring the 2024 U.S. campaign and election from multiple perspectives. How are political science educators bringing the 2024 U.S. election into their classrooms? What assignments or activities should political science educators use to help undergraduates understand the 2024 U.S. election? What tools can faculty use to address campaign and election mis- and disinformation?

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Civic Engagement Teaching Political Science Civics 68

Learn for Living

JULY 11, 2024

Last week I was chatting with a friend whose daughter was just about to start second grade. She opened the red folder that lives in her daughters backpack on a daily basis and revealed a series of letters and notes from her daughters new teacher. Inside the folder was a list of classroom responsibilities, a volunteer form, and a little package of confetti she was encouraged to sprinkle on her pillow the night before class to bring fun dreams of their year together.

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Heinemann Blog

JULY 11, 2024

Whole-group literacy often involves the whole group of students, sitting on a rug, engaging with a story read aloud by the teacher. During this time, students ask questions, think deeply about the text, and participate in purposeful conversation as they turn-and-talk with their peers. What takes this learning further are curated, authentic, and meaningful text sets with a theme that is meant to build knowledge around a certain topic.

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Living Geography

JULY 11, 2024

Helen Young's new website has now been launched. It has been updated to reflect her current activity, and refresh the look. If you haven't visited for a while why not go and take a look.

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Political Science Now

JULY 11, 2024

A Boundary of White Inclusion: The Role of Religion in Ethnoracial Assignment By Amanda Sahar d’Urso , Georgetown University How do White Americans operationalize Whiteness? This article argues that religion, in conjunction with country of origin, alters how self-identified White Americans assign ethnoracial labels to other groups. To test the role of religion in White assignment, this article uses the case of Muslims and of Americans from the Middle East and North Africa (MENA).

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Research 49

Living Geography

JULY 11, 2024

"A general, a distinguished member of the Geographical Society, lately complained to the lecturer of the brutal ignorance displayed by society in general, because at a large dinner-party his wife was the only guest who knew where Nassau, New Providence, was. Such geographical lore the lecturer said he heartily despised. It might have been of use before the invention of gazetteers: now it is utterly useless.

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