Unlocking the Power of Human Connection in the Age of Technology
Digital Promise
JANUARY 14, 2025
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As public colleges begin to merge or shut down, one state shows how hard it is
The Hechinger Report
JANUARY 14, 2025
RANDOLPH, Vt. The thermostat was turned low in the admissions office at Vermont State University on a cold winter morning. Its one of our efficiencies, quipped David Bergh, the institutions president, who works in the same building. Bergh was joking. But he was referring to something decidedly serious: the public university systems struggle to reduce a deficit so deep, it threatened to permanently shutter several campuses after dramatic drop-offs in enrollment and revenue.
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As Apprenticeships Expand in Early Childhood, These States Are Training the Field’s Future Leaders
ED Surge
JANUARY 14, 2025
A typical career trajectory in early care and education might follow like this: start as an assistant teacher in a classroom, eventually gain the experience to move up to lead teacher, and if youre ambitious and able, one day become the assistant director, director or even owner of a program. On paper, it seems reasonable. Each role, over time, equips the educator to step into the next one, right?
Boost Student Achievement with High-Quality Instructional Materials on Social Studies
TCI
JANUARY 14, 2025
Engaging students in social studies goes beyond simply covering the material; its about helping them connect historical events to current issues and develop critical thinking skills. In todays rapidly changing world, students need more than just facts to succeed. Investing in high-quality instructional materials (HQIM) for social studies is essential for enhancing student achievement, fostering critical thinking, and closing the educational achievement gap.
How a Vacant School Building Became a Symbol of Loss and a Source of Hope for a Small Town
ED Surge
JANUARY 14, 2025
Donora, Pennsylvania, once housed a thriving steel mill that stretched for about four miles, though that factory closed more than 50 years ago. Today, the town of about 5,000 people has no gas station, no bank and no grocery store. And just a few years ago its only school closed. The shuttering of that school was particularly tough for a community that has been in decline for decades.
The Marshmallow Effect | 2
ShortCutsTV
JANUARY 14, 2025
The first part of this post provided some background to Mischel et als (1990) Marshmallow Test and started to question the idea it could be used to predict things like future academic performance.
American Attitudes Toward Climate Migrants: Findings from a Conjoint Experiment
Political Science Now
JANUARY 14, 2025
American Attitudes Toward Climate Migrants: Findings from a Conjoint Experiment By Per Adman , Uppsala University , Nazita Lajevardi , Michigan State University , and Deborah Seligsohn , Villanova University The dramatic impacts of climate change presage an inevitable surge in mass migration ; however, advanced democracies are ill-equipped for this impending crisis.
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5 Minutes with Faculty Institute Leaders: How Civil Discourse Shapes a Democratic Society
Institute for Citizens & Scholars
JANUARY 14, 2025
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APSA Mentoring Program – Enroll Now for Spring 2025
Political Science Now
JANUARY 14, 2025
Springenrollment for the APSA MentoringProgram will be open from January 13 January 27, 2025. TheMentoringProgram connects undergraduate, graduate students, and junior faculty from all backgrounds to mentors in the political science discipline. Potentialmentoringtopics include graduate school admissions, navigating the academic job market, applied careers in political science, and work-life balance.
NAIS Letter Signatories
Zinn Education Project
JANUARY 14, 2025
Signatories for Call on NAIS to Correct the Record and Stand Against Hate. These are in addition to the organizations and individuals on the main page with the letter. For all the names below, organizations (where listed) are for identification purposes only. Faouzie Alchahal Randolph Splitter Kristin Aardsma Carol Mazer, Jewish Palestinian Alliance of Oregon Flo Hodes, retired private school administrator Stephen Auerbach David Palumbo-Liu, Stanford University Peter Miller Judith Lienhard, reti
My Errant Uterus
Sapiens
JANUARY 14, 2025
In a time of heightened threats to reproductive rights, a womens health scholar and mother of two comes face to face with her uterus. I keep my uterus on the bottom shelf of my dresser. It is cool and dark there, suitable for a preserved organ. Before my hysterectomy in 2019, I kept it in its original container, my pelvis. For most of my lifetime, since before my birth, it nested softly in the company of my ovaries, fallopian tubes, bladder, and rectum.
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