The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Almost every day at the public elementary school she attended in Montgomery County, Maryland, Stephanie heard comments about her weight. Kids in her fifth grade class called her “fatty” instead of her name, she recalled; others whispered, “Do you want a cupcake?” as she walked by. One classmate spread a rumor that she had diabetes. Stephanie was so incensed by his teasing that she hit him and got suspended, she said.

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Elementary School Tutoring Psychology Research 112

Digital Promise

OCTOBER 23, 2024

A new report shares learnings from a cohort across K-12 education that tested ways to leverage AI toward equitable outcomes for students.

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Sapiens

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Anthropologists and local activists in Indonesia and Peru uncover links between water scarcity and gendered violence, and work together to lessen the harms of gender inequality. ✽ In the northern desert of Peru, a tin roof shades women from the beating sun as they wait for rusty water tanker trucks that are often delayed. The trucks will dump water into algae-lined cement reservoirs, from which the women will fill their plastic jugs.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Social-emotional learning (SEL) has become a primary focus in many school’s strategic plans. Fortunately, there is a long list of literature, articles and research that outline the importance of SEL and the positive impact that it can have on student development. Knowing this, teachers try to fit these lessons into their morning meetings, projects, special classes, birthday celebrations, snack times and lunch hours.

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Advocacy Teaching Education Research 78

Living Geography

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Another Wednesday means it's time for another Worldly Wednesday. This one is a little different to the others so far. Today I was in Wednesday. It was wet. and the South Coast day. A few gaps in the weather were good e.g. at Skogafoss, but Vik was pouring and we had dry weather for half of our time at Solheimajokull. Fortunately I had my 66 North gear to keep me dry.

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Society for Classical Studies

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Announcing the SCS Award for Outstanding Literary Translation kskordal Wed, 10/23/2024 - 08:39 Image The Society for Classical Studies is pleased to announce the new annual Award for Outstanding Literary Translation. The award will honor up to two books each year by SCS members published within the past three calendar years. The translated work shall be a primary text in Ancient Greek or Latin.

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CORE Econ

OCTOBER 23, 2024

What are the pressing issues in accounting education? Why is there a need for a new approach in accounting education? Internationally the providers of accounting education have been consistently criticized for the narrow technical focus of accounting programmes and the unquestioning replication of the syllabus provided by professional accounting bodies without much-needed critical reflection.

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Heritage Digital Resources Economics Cultures 52

CORE Econ

OCTOBER 23, 2024

In a two year long journey, Weikai Chen, Assistant Professor of Economics at Renmin University of China, made it to the city-level stage of the 13th Beijing Young Teachers’ Teaching Skills Competition. Weikai was also a student of Sam Bowles’, CORE Econ author and member of CORE’s Editorial Board, and authored with Sam the textbook Allocation, distribution and policy: Notes, problems, and solutions in microeconomics.

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Economics Tradition Pedagogy Teaching 52

Stanford History Education Group

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Go Ahead and Use Wikipedia for Research lee_2 Wed, 10/23/2024 - 13:57 10/17/24 [link]

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Political Science Now

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Sequential Polarization: The Development of the Rural-Urban Political Divide, 1976–2020 By Trevor E. Brown and Suzanne Mettler , Cornell University As recently as the early 1990s, Americans living in rural and urban areas voted similarly in presidential elections, yet in the decades since, they have diverged sharply as rural people in all regions of the country have increasingly supported the Republican Party.

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