The Hechinger Report

JULY 30, 2024

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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Anthropology Economics Psychology Library 140

Catlin Tucker

JULY 30, 2024

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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Education K-12 Classroom Management Teaching 88

The Hechinger Report

JULY 30, 2024

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.

Education 132

Education Social Justice Economics High School 132

Teaching American History

JULY 30, 2024

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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Education Library American History Education Policy 83

Political Science Now

JULY 30, 2024

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.

Political Science 63

Political Science Government History Research 63

Anthropology.net

JULY 30, 2024

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.

Archaeology 60

Archaeology Humanities Artifacts History 60

Living Geography

JULY 30, 2024

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.

Geography 52

Geography 52

Zinn Education Project

JULY 30, 2024

We are thrilled to announce our second class of Zinn Education Project Prentiss Charney fellows for the 2024–2026 school years. The fellowship offers support for a cohort of people’s history educator leaders to study, learn, and organize together for two years. Purpose Once again, educators are at the center of battles over what U.S. history children will learn and the kind of future they will create.

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History Education History Teaching Education 52

Political Science Now

JULY 30, 2024

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.

Economics 51

Economics 51

The Hechinger Report

JULY 30, 2024

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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Government Pedagogy Middle School Research 134

Political Science Now

JULY 30, 2024

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.

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