ED Surge
DECEMBER 19, 2023
When Paul LeBlanc began as president of Southern New Hampshire University more than 20 years ago, the institution taught about 2,500 students on its residential campus — and its future looked uncertain. But LeBlanc, who was enthusiastic about technology and had worked in edtech, made a bet that was unusual at the time: He decided to grow the university’s online offerings.
The Hechinger Report
DECEMBER 19, 2023
This story was produced by The Associated Press and EdSource and republished with permission. CONCORD, Calif. – Aylah Levy had some catching up to do this fall when she started first grade. This story also appeared in Ed Source and The Associated Press After spending her kindergarten year at an alternative program that met exclusively outdoors, Aylah, 6, had to adjust to being inside a classroom.
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Education Elements
DECEMBER 19, 2023
Having worked in Title 1 schools for almost a decade, I had the privilege of being surrounded by language learners in all my classrooms. It proved to be a humbling, eye-opening, and fascinating experience in many different ways. Because state laws required my classrooms to be conducted only in English, I prioritized creating spaces where students of color and from varied cultural backgrounds could share the best of their communities through experiential learning, project based units, and narrati
The Hechinger Report
DECEMBER 19, 2023
ATLANTA – It’s unclear to Tameka how — or even when — her children became unenrolled from Atlanta Public Schools. But it was traumatic when, in Fall 2021, they figured out it had happened. This story also appeared in The Associated Press After more than a year of some form of pandemic online learning, students were all required to come back to school in person.
Moler's Musing
DECEMBER 19, 2023
Monday – Ugly Christmas Sweater Tuesday – Archetypes This week I completed several fun holiday activities with my classes leading up to Christmas break. On Monday, we finished an ongoing project – creating historical ugly Christmas sweaters. The previous Thursday, Katie Cherney had generously shared an ugly sweater template with me.
Anthropology.net
DECEMBER 19, 2023
The question of what Neanderthals consumed has long intrigued scientists, unearthing a paradox within their dietary habits. Recent research delves into this enigmatic aspect of our ancient relatives, spotlighting the conundrum surrounding their supposed carnivorous inclination and raising new puzzling findings. What exactly is he eating? Credit: Gorodenkoff/Shutterstock.com Over the last two million years, human ancestors have exhibited omnivorous tendencies, albeit with a prominent carnivorous
Pedagogy and Formation
DECEMBER 19, 2023
My apologies if you follow my Literacy blog as well as this Pedagogy blog (& thanks too!), but I thought readers of this blog might find these ideas from my Literacy blog of help in holiday periods when school is out. In Australia, our schools will close in the third week of December for the Summer holidays which last about 6 weeks. After over two years of COVID isolation, lock downs and disrupted schooling, life is just starting to return to normal.
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Institute for Citizens & Scholars
DECEMBER 19, 2023
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Life and Landscapes
DECEMBER 19, 2023
Reggie Van Stockum riding in a driverless taxi with his son, Philip, in San Francisco during Thanksgiving 2023. Yikes… but I think I liked it!
Education Week - Social Studies
DECEMBER 19, 2023
Most state assessments aren't testing how students civically engage in their communities, a new report finds.
The Hechinger Report
DECEMBER 19, 2023
For parents applying to the dual-language program at Rochester, New York’s public school No. 12, where students learn in both English and Spanish, the process can be both bureaucratic and baffling. After listing the program as a top choice, parents must schedule a testing appointment at the central office, where an instructor gauges such skills as whether each incoming kindergartener can hold a book properly and turn its pages, identify that a sentence is made up of words and spaces, use words t
C3 Teachers
DECEMBER 19, 2023
Waking up to the news of the world can at times feel like a dizzying whirlwind. Today, amid the escalating turmoil in Israel and Gaza, I listened to a news interview in which the reporter was asking a former Israeli hostage negotiator their opinion on what the coming days and months would hold for Israelis and Palestinians. I was struck by the honesty in his voice as he expressed that his greatest fear was that no one, Israeli or Palestinian, would come out of this conflict in a good place.
The Hechinger Report
DECEMBER 19, 2023
The recent rise of ChatGPT and other generative artificial intelligence tools has inspired growing anxiety on college campuses while fueling a national conversation about faculty attempts to thwart students from using the tools to cheat. But that prevalent narrative around AI and cheating is overshadowing the technology’s true potential: Artificial intelligence holds great promise for dramatically enhancing the reach and impact of postsecondary institutions and improving outcomes for all student
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