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As ‘bot’ students continue to flood in, community colleges struggle to respond

The Hechinger Report

This story was first published by Voice of San Diego and is reprinted with permission. Community colleges have been dealing with an unprecedented phenomenon: fake students bent on stealing financial aid funds. While it has caused chaos at many colleges, some Southwestern College faculty feel their leaders havent done enough to curb the crisis. When the spring semester began, Southwestern College professor Elizabeth Smith felt good.

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How To Play The ‘Count To Ten’ Team-Building Game

TeachThought

Understanding how to play the 'count to 10' team-building game is about rules, timing, and sequence. Engaged students pick it up quickly.

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OPINION: Arts education must move beyond traditional models and embrace practical skills and hands-on learning

The Hechinger Report

Arts graduates, both undergraduate and postgraduate, are highly educated yet often unprepared for careers beyond academia. Traditional arts education frequently leaves them struggling to enter commercial sectors like galleries, auction houses and publishing. Art history students in particular face growing difficulty in securing employment outside academic circles.

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Teaching Strategies For Maslow’s Hierarchy Of Needs

TeachThought

Teaching Strategies For Maslow’s Hierarchy Of Needs by TeachThought Staff Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs, developed by psychologist Abraham Maslow in […] Source

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Dynamic Learning: Mindmaps

ShortCutsTV

The next in our popular Dynamic Learning series of Study Skills films is Mindmapping, a note-taking technique originally popularised by Tony Buzan in the 1970s.

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APSA 2025 Fund for Latino Scholarship- Applications Due June 15th

Political Science Now

The FundforLatinoScholarship encourages and supports the recruitment, retention, and promotion of political science students and scholars who study and research Latina/o politics (especially students and tenure track junior faculty). Applications are due June 15, 2025. Thefundwill award grants to initiatives that: Provide professional opportunities and financial assistance to undergraduate and graduate students and scholars who study and research on political science topics related to Latina/o p

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Flooding Interview on WEKU’s Radio Show, “Eastern Standard”

Life and Landscapes

Here is a link to WEKU’s “Eastern Standard” Radio Show on the flooding in Eastern Kentucky. I was pleased to participate and reflect on my travels in the area. “Good morning Reggie – Here’s a link to the segment. The link to your blog appears on the site’s homepage. [link] Thank you! Tom Martin – Producer, Editor, Host Eastern Standard” #lifeandlandscapes #reggievanstockum The Life and Landscapes Blog Site is at: www.vanstockum.blog/lookin Al

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Poas volcano eruuption

O-Level Geography

Where is Poas volcano located? Why are tourists attracted to volcanoes such as Poas? When was the Poas volcano national park closed? How does the volcanic eruption affect tourism?

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When kids are evicted, they often lose both home and school

The Hechinger Report

This story was produced by the Associated Press and reprinted with permission. HOUSTON Since her birth 10 years ago, Mackenzie Holmes has rarely called one place home for long. There was the house in Houston custom-built and owned by her grandmother, Crystal Holmes. Then, after Holmes lost her Southwest Airlines job and the house, there was the trio of apartments in the suburbs and three evictions.

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Charlotte’s Web Book Overview

TeachThought

Charlotte's Web is a book about a pig, a spider, and a girl on a farm wrestling with themes of friendship, sacrifice, death, and rebirth.

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Why I Registered

Zinn Education Project

We love hearing how people found us and why theyve signed up to access peoples history lessons from the Zinn Education Project. Here are a few of the hundreds of comments educators shared in March. Despite and in response to the Executive Orders censoring honest teaching, educators are bravely signing up at the Zinn Education Project in greater numbers.

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Education Department restarts online library ERIC

The Hechinger Report

The U.S. Department of Education announced Monday that it would continue to operate its online library, known as ERIC, after allowi ng it to lapse last week. The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) had sought significant cuts to the document repository that is used by 14 million people a year, and allowed funding to run out on April 23. That ended the ability of the Education Department to add new research reports and documents to the library that is used by education policymakers, resear

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Ending USDA Programs for School Meals Will Impact Learning, Experts Warn

ED Surge

Health leaders, educators and farmers throughout the country are growing increasingly concerned about the impact to childrens nutrition after the U.S. Department of Agriculture cut two programs totaling more than $600 million in funding that helped to put fresh farm food in schools. Were really disappointed, particularly given that theres this focus on making sure kids are healthy, making America healthy, said Diane Pratt-Heavener with the School Nutrition Association, a 50,000-member advocacy

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