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How colleges can become ‘living labs’ for combating climate change 

The Hechinger Report

NEW PALTZ, N.Y. — At the end of a semester that presaged one of the hottest summers on record, the students in Associate Professor Michael Sheridan’s business class were pitching proposals to cut waste and emissions on their campus and help turn it into a vehicle for fighting climate change. Flanking a giant whiteboard at the front of the classroom, members of the team campaigning to build a solar canopy on a SUNY New Paltz parking lot delivered their pitch.

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TEDx Talk – Education Reimagined: Student-led Learning

Catlin Tucker

Do you feel like our current approach to teaching and learning is working for either teachers or students? If you answered, “no,” we are on the same page. This belief is what drove me to develop my TEDx Talk titled “ Education Reimagined: Student-Led Learning.” Right now, we are facing an educational crisis with more teachers leaving the profession than new teachers are entering the field.

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Alternative STEM education: A noncollege path to jobs for students from underrepresented groups

The Hechinger Report

BROOKLYN, N.Y. — About one and a half years ago, Isaiah Hickerson woke up in the middle of the night having dreamt he was a coder. The dream was totally random, as dreams so often are. He didn’t know a thing about coding. He was 23, and though originally from California, he’d been living with his uncle in Miami. By day, he was answering phones in the grooming department at PetSmart.

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Joshua Dunn, Teachers Discuss Judiciary’s Involvement in Education

Teaching American History

Good teachers respond to the needs of the students they seek to educate. Yet in their approach to this task, they are also responsible to administrators, parents, school boards—and, increasingly, to state and federal courts. Since the middle of the twentieth century, “seemingly no aspect of education policy has been too insignificant to escape judicial oversight,” writes Professor Joshua Dunn, in a 2008 essay he coauthored with Martin R.

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Namibia’s Ancient Human Habitats: How Desert Archaeology Sheds Light on Human Evolution

Anthropology.net

The deserts of northern Africa and the Arabian Peninsula have long been the focus of archaeological research, revealing their roles as cradles of early human civilization and migration routes through so-called “green corridors.” However, the archaeology 1 of southern Africa’s west coast desert belt, particularly the Namib Sand Sea, has remained relatively unexplored.

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Share your fieldwork ideas and resources

Living Geography

A cross-posting from my relatively new blog: 'At the Home of Geography'. This is a blog to share work around my work as Vice President:Education of the Royal Geographical Society. The GA's Fieldwork Festival during June has ended, but fieldwork can carry on at any time of course, and we hope that your summer travels may well involve some 'fieldtrips' AKA family holidays, or personal travels.

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How to Crack the Code of Benchmark Assessments Step-by-Step | Step 3

Maitri Learning

How do we help young children crack the code of benchmark tests? The third step is practicing letter naming fluency and letter identification skills. In the third video of our "Crack the Codes" series, our literacy expert demonstrates effective methods to enhance these critical skills in young readers. Be sure to subscribe to our channel on YouTube and LinkedIN so you don't miss out on this insightful series.

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Eric Schickler Receives the 2024 Barbara Sinclair Lecture Award

Political Science Now

The Barbara Sinclair Lecture Award is presented annually to honor achievement in promoting understanding of the U.S. Congress and legislative politics. Citation from the Award Committee: Professor Eric Schickler is one of the most productive and influential congressional scholars of his generation. The author or editor of eight books, some three dozen refereed articles, and another 30 chapters and other invited works, his interests are wide-ranging across legislative politics.

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Mathematics test scores in some countries have been dropping for years, even as the subject grows in importance

The Hechinger Report

The bottom line is troubling. Scores on an international math test fell a record 15 points between 2018 and 2022 — the equivalent of students losing three-quarters of a school year of learning. That finding may not be surprising considering the timing of the test. The world was still recovering from the disruptive effects of the global pandemic when the test, called the Program for International Student Assessment, or PISA, was administered.

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Short Course: Britain in Crisis: Perils and Prospects

Political Science Now

Britain in Crisis: Perils and Prospects Full Day Short Course 9:00am – 5:00pm While Brexit has dominated discussion about the future of the United Kingdom and has – rightly or wrongly – been blamed for a range of policy challenges that the country currently faces, a focus solely on Brexit obscures the depth and range of crises confronting the British polity.

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Olukunle Owolabi Receives the 2024 Merze Tate – Elinor Ostrom Outstanding Book Award for “Ruling Emancipated Slaves and Indigenous Subjects”

Political Science Now

The Merze Tate – Elinor Ostrom Outstanding Book Award , formally the APSA Best Book Award, is presented annually by the American Political Science Association (APSA) to honor the best book on government, politics, or international affairs. Citation from the Award Committee: Ruling Emancipated Slaves and Indigenous Subjects provides a sweeping and incisive account of divergent post-colonial development trajectories in the Global South.