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Gen Z Is Growing Up in Education Upheaval. How Are Teens Doing?

ED Surge

Gen Z is in an awkward phase. Parsing education data into snack-sized servings. The oldest of the cohort born from 1997 to 2012 are in their mid- to late 20s and taking heat for chafing against workplace culture in ways that come off as entitled (sound familiar, millennials?). The youngest Zoomers, as theyre also known, are around 13 years old and still have years left in public school systems dealing with frequent upheavals due to federal-level uncertainty , politicization of essential servic

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Corruption and Co-Optation in Autocracy: Evidence from Russia

Political Science Now

Corruption and Co-Optation in Autocracy: Evidence from Russia By David Szakonyi , George Washington University. Do corrupt officials govern differently in elected office? This article develops a theoretical framework and analyzes new data from financial disclosures to estimate the governing costs of corruption. First, I uncover substantial hidden wealth held by roughly one quarter of the legislators in the Russian Duma; these kompromat deputies are vulnerable to damaging information being used

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Collections 6 | PowerPoint Presentations

ShortCutsTV

The next set in the Collections series covers both Sociology and Psychology and covers a mix of PowerPoint Presentations, some of which Ive lifted for the Web but most of which Ive created.

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The Power of Peer Collaboration: Examples from the League of Innovative Schools

Digital Promise

Across the country, districts in the League of Innovative Schools collaborate to learn and bring transformational change to their communities.

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Inspiring Careers at the National 4-H Conference, From Science to Service

Smithsonian Voices | Smithsonian Education

The National 4-H Conference Career Expo, hosted by the U.S.

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Making Research More Accessible for Non-Native English Speakers

Digital Promise

The post Making Research More Accessible for Non-Native English Speakers appeared first on Digital Promise.

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Creativity and ChatGPT

Living Geography

A letter written by Nick Cave and read by Stephen Fry which gives his thoughts on creativity and people who use ChatGPT. Warning: includes one use of the F-word.

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The Perimeter

Living Geography

I was amazed to read that it's now 10 years since Quintin Lake set off on his journey around the UK coastline in a project called 'The Perimeter'. It's finally made it into book form and will be launched in May. The book can be pre-ordered.

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Caste and Environmental Health: The Dom Community of North India

Anthropology News

This piece is also published in Hindi, which begins below the English edition on this same webpage. In the Indian society, caste is a continuing reality of everyday life. I am an Assistant Professor in a local college in the regional state of Uttar Pradesh in northern India. Uttar Pradesh is the most populous state of India, and here caste heterogeneity is structured by a deep social hierarchy.

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The Devastating Floods of Eastern Kentucky (part 2)

Life and Landscapes

The Devastating Floods in Eastern Kentucky ( PART 2 ) (From of the last chapter in my book entitled, Surrounding the Kentucky River, from its beginnings to the end.) The great deluge began the night of Wednesday, July 27, 2022. By the next morning, the rising swamp of floodwater had swept through its sinewy drainageways, bulldozing with water as irate as iron, anything that would obstruct its passage downstream.

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Rana Plaza - 12 years on.

Living Geography

Today is the 12th anniversary of the Rana Plaza collapse. Thanks to Ian Cook et al for links to a whole range of resources. Fashion Revolution was founded on this day. We are in Fashion Revolution Week for 2025 at the moment. The following is taken from Follow the Things website. The True Cost A documentary film (with website) directed Andrew Morgan & executive produced by Livia Firth for Life Is My Movie Entertainment.

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A smaller Nation’s Report Card

The Hechinger Report

As Education Secretary Linda McMahon was busy dismantling her cabinet department, she vowed to preserve one thing: the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), also known as the Nations Report Card. In early April, she told a gathering of ed tech companies and investors that the national exam was something we absolutely need to keep, because its a way that we keep everybody honest about the truth of how much students across the country actually know.

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Trump Executive Order Calls for Artificial Intelligence to Be Taught in Schools

ED Surge

Since generative artificial intelligence burst onto the scene a few years ago, schools and educators have grappled with how to approach the powerful-but-experimental technology. Ban it? Embrace it? A new executive order plants the White House firmly in the latter camp. On April 23, President Donald Trump signed Advancing Artificial Intelligence Education for American Youth.

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