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Building Career-Ready Skills: Insights from our 2024 Micro-Credential Pilot

Digital Promise

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2024 Erich S. Gruen Prize

Society for Classical Studies

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When Students Lead: Insights from the League of Innovative Students 2024 Design Sprint

Digital Promise

Hear how the League of Innovative Students made strides in 2024 toward shaping educational experiences for their peers and driving systemic change.

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6 observations from a devastating international math test

The Hechinger Report

Country rankings of eighth graders on the 2023 TIMSS Click the list to expand. Standard errors are in parentheses. The larger the number, the more the actual average score in the countrys population could deviate from the sample of students who took the TIMSS assessment. Source: 2023 Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) An abysmal showing by U.S. students on a recent international math test flabbergasted typically restrained education researchers.It looks like student ac

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The Life of a 17,000-Year-Old Infant from Ice Age Italy

Anthropology.net

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These Classes Re-Lit My Fire

Zinn Education Project

Every Zinn Education Project session not only impacts my teaching, but unravels the damage done by whitewashed histories. You give me more tools to educate my students and make me a better teacher today. Tara Micham, social studies teacher, Kansas City, Kansas Tara Micham is one of thousands of teachers learning the history missing from their own education in our Teach the Black Freedom Struggle classes.

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The story of a crisp

Living Geography

Crisps are popular snacks, and we eat a lot of them. Although they're not the best thing for us health wise. This video follows the story of a brand called Lays, from the potato to the pack. I am looking to update my Year 7 'Food for Thought' scheme of work to add in more references to potatoes, and this is one option. We already have a video about their journey to Scottish fish and chip shops and this will be a nice companion piece.

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Palin on Geography

Living Geography

From 2009 - when Michael Palin took over as RGS President. "For some reason, geography is not seen as a popular subject in school. It's seen as very unglamorous. Yet when I was at school, I can remember geography offering me the chance to get out and go on field trips and go on walks, and I loved maps, I loved atlases, I loved learning about other countries and places where things were different from our own and that's all covered by geography.

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How to Be a Good Dissertation Adviser: Guidance From Some of Our Field’s Most Successful Mentors

Political Science Now

How to Be a Good Dissertation Adviser: Guidance From Some of Our Fields Most Successful Mentors By Peter K. Hatemi , The Pennsylvania State University , and Rose McDermott , Brown University The academy has undergone substantial change in the last decade with many new internal and external pressures. Fewer full-time faculty are asked to do much more.

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Climate Change Allowances

Living Geography

What are climate change allowances? Climate change allowances are predictions of anticipated change for: peak river flow peak rainfall intensity sea level rise offshore wind speed extreme wave height To increase resilience to flooding and coastal change, allowances for climate change should be made in any flood risk assessments. There are allowances for different climate scenarios over different epochs, or periods of time, over the coming century.

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Member Spotlight: Dr. Cyril Ghosh, Clark University

Political Science Now

Meet Dr. Cyril Ghosh APSA Member since 2004 Associate Professor and Lloyd B. Politsch ’33 Chair of Law Clark University How did you learn about APSA? When did you become a member of APSA, and what prompted you to join? I started graduate school at Syracuse University in 2001. During my first few years there, several of my professors and mentors encouraged me to start attending conferences.

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Bring back ERASMUS

Living Geography

I was involved in ERASMUS projects for 12 years. It brought me into contact with a great many talented international geographers working for international organisations in various roles. Erasmus+ is an initiative funded by the European Union. It aims to support education, training, and development. It offers opportunities in higher education, school education, vocational education, training, adult education, youth services, and sport.

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OPINION: As book bans reach historic levels, more educators should get involved in school governance

The Hechinger Report

The number of book bans in schools and libraries nearly tripled during the 2023-24 school year to more than 10,000, across red and blue states, according to a recent PEN America report. But that alarming statistic does not necessarily reflect how most voters feel about this growing form of censorship. As President-elect Donald Trump promises to withhold federal funding from schools that do not comply with executive orders restricting curriculum content, state and local officials must take steps

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Come and work with me on the RGS Education Committee from 2025

Living Geography

There is availability to join me on the Royal Geographical Society's Education Committee, which I joined in June as Vice President Education. We have an important job to do - particularly at the moment with a focus on the Government's Curriculum and Assessment review. The process is explained on the link below if you'd like to put yourself forward. You will need to fill in a few forms online and get them to the Director's office by the 20th of March 2025.

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Does School Choice Need a Lemon Law?

ED Surge

When she moved her daughter into a reputable private school in Washington at the beginning of the pandemic, Ashley Jochim never imagined that she was preparing her daughter for failure. Jochim, a mother of four and an education researcher, thought her second-grader would do better in the smaller, more flexible environment the private school offered.

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Canal Boat Diaries

Living Geography

I have a few programmes which I always sit and watch if they are on. They are sometimes called 'slow TV' because nothing much happens in them, but they are also calming as as well as being informative. I am currently on Series 6 of one of them. It is called 'Canal Boat Diaries' and follows the life and travels of Robbie Cumming , who has lived for over ten years aboard his boat which is called the 'Naughty Lass'.