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PROOF POINTS: Most college kids are taking at least one class online, even long after campuses reopened

The Hechinger Report

The pandemic not only disrupted education temporarily; it also triggered permanent changes. One that is quietly taking place at colleges and universities is a major, expedited shift to online learning. Even after campuses reopened and the health threat diminished, colleges and universities continued to offer more online courses and added more online degrees and programs.

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Call for Pitches: Artificial Intelligence (AI)

Anthropology News

Issued: January 29, 2024 Response deadline: February 23, 2024 Pitch responses: February 29, 2024 First drafts due: March 27, 2024 For our third issue of 2024, Anthropology News is delving into the burgeoning field of artificial intelligence (AI) and its intricate relationship with human reality. AI is a complex field that appears poised to impact nearly every aspect of human life, from work to interpersonal relationships, education, mental health, and beyond.

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OPINION: This cannot wait: We need concrete solutions to fight school shootings right now

The Hechinger Report

I’m principal of a high school with a well-known name, only because it’s the site of one of the most devastating school shootings in recent American history: Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. I’m also a mother, a neighbor and a witness to the enduring scars left by gun violence in our schools. As a member of the National Association of Secondary School Principals’ Recovery Network, I participated in a congressional roundtable on gun violence following October’s deadly massacre in Lewiston, M

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Explanations for Crime and Deviance: 6. Left Realism

ShortCutsTV

Short set of Notes on a kind of complementary, albeit less revolutionary, approach to understanding crime and deviance that you can either lump-in with Critical Criminology or treat as a separate, neo-critical, perspective. Your choice. But let’s just hope it’s the right one, for everyone’s sake… Left Realism: A Young Man’s Game?

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Math in Practice Coaching Resource: Ideas for Supporting Teachers

Heinemann Blog

As a Math Coach/Specialist, you support the teaching and learning of math within your building. Undeniably, your responsibilities are varied and challenging. You may be asked to conduct professional development workshops, facilitate data meetings, lead book study groups, facilitate collaborative planning meetings, provide demonstration lessons, or organize schoolwide math events.

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Principles for more inclusive classrooms. 4. Teachers should be in control of the decisions they make.

Ben Newmark

This is Part 4 of a series on making classrooms more inclusive. Part 1 can be found here , Part 2 here , and Part 3 3 here. Children do not have SEND as if it were a medical diagnosis. They are assigned the label for many different reasons and in many different ways and there are good reasons to be cautious about assuming there is shared meaning of the terms used.

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Aspiration to Ecosystem: The Growth of Digital Promise’s Product Certifications

Digital Promise

The post Aspiration to Ecosystem: The Growth of Digital Promise’s Product Certifications appeared first on Digital Promise.

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Strange Future

Sapiens

A Nigerian eco-activist and poet wonders what future lies ahead in the face of climate change impacts and resistance to large-scale emission reductions. “Strange Future” is part of the collection Poems of Witness and Possibility: Inside Zones of Conflict. Read the introduction to the collection here. Strange Future – Listen —after Hayden Carruth Unlike hope, which tricks us with future expectations, My daughter insists we can build the world around us Again, if we choose—any tree can becom

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Rediscovering the Lost Empire of Upano

Anthropology.net

"Have you ever wondered about the real history of the Amazon?" asked archaeologist Stéphen Rostain. What followed was a revelation that shook established narratives. Rostain's decades-long study 1 , unveiled recently, exposed an extensive network of cities hidden deep within the Ecuadorean Amazon, challenging our understanding of this vast rain forest.

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Las necesidades de salud mental de las niñas negras e hispanas a menudo no se satisfacen. Este grupo busca brindar apoyo.

The Hechinger Report

TRANSLATED BY CESAR SERGOVIA WAUKEGAN, Illinois — En una soleada pero animada tarde de noviembre dentro de la escuela secundaria Robert Abbott, seis niñas de octavo grado rápidamente entraron en un salón de clases pequeño pero colorido y se sientan en un círculo. Yuli Paez-Naranjo, consejera de Working on Womanhood (WOW), tenía una camiseta violeta de WOW mientras dirigía al grupo en una discusión sobre cómo los valores pueden informar las decisiones.

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Poems of Witness and Possibility: Inside Zones of Conflict

Sapiens

Anthropological poems from around the globe speak to people’s creative will, resistance, and resilience—and the significance of our shared humanity. ✽ In July 2023, SAPIENS put out a call for poems from within “ zones of conflict.” We asked authors to share their insights into “what brought humanity to this point [in history] and anthropology’s role in those processes.

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Learn more about: “Infertile Bodies-Territories: Extractivism and Indigenous Women’s Rights in Latin America”

Political Science Now

Project Title: Infertile Bodies-Territories: Extractivism and Indigenous Women’s Rights in Latin America Karla Mundim, John Jay College- CUNY Karla Mundim is an Assistant Professor of political science at John Jay College – CUNY. She earned her Ph.D. from the University of Florida, and her research interests include Indigenous social movements, extractivism, theories of colonialism, multiculturalism, and territoriality, with a particular focus on Latin America.