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What We’re Learning About AI’s Potential—And Limits—for Personalizing Educational Content

Digital Promise

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NEH Grantees: August 2024

Society for Classical Studies

NEH Grantees: August 2024 kskordal Tue, 10/01/2024 - 14:52 Image Congratulations to the following National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Grantees, announced in August 2024, for their project in classical studies and adjacent fields: Caitlín Barrett and Kathryn Gleason (Cornell University): Toward an Archaeology of Lived Experience: Modeling Embodied Identities at Pompeii Learn more and view the full list of recent grants awarded by NEH: August 2024 Press Release Image Credits National Endow

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The Simple Classroom

The Effortful Educator

I was recently told by one of my students that my class “isn’t necessarily easy, but it’s simple.” And, I’ve got to be honest with you…it made my day. I take that as a huge complement. The simple classroom is something I strive for and is constantly on my mind when I consider both the physical environment and instruction provided during class.

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Inside an Effort to Build an AI Assistant for Designing Course Materials

ED Surge

There’s a push among AI developers to create an AI tutor , and some see that as a key use case for tools like ChatGPT. But one longtime edtech expert sees an even better fit for new AI chatbots in education: helping educators design course materials for their students. So all year Michael Feldstein has been leading a project to build an AI assistant that’s focused on learning design.

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These federal policies support Spanish-language child care

The Hechinger Report

A quarter of the children in the U.S. are Hispanic, according to the U.S. Census, yet 60 percent of Hispanic families live in child care deserts, areas with an undersupply of child care. Culturally appropriate and accessible Spanish-language child care is tailored to the needs of Hispanic and Latino families, where Spanish is often the primary language.

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The Growth of Malignant and Exclusionary Social Movements

Perspectives in Anthropology

Written by Colin Greer & Eric Laursen Editor’s note: This is the second of three articles on the role of social movements in bringing about transformative change. The U.S.

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Curating Immigrant Life: A Praxis of Care

Anthropology News

On an early summer morning, I drove down 100 miles from my home in Altadena, California, to the Oceanside Museum of Art in San Diego County for a public discussion of the exhibition I curated entitled Alexa Vasquez: Undocumented Times/Queer Yearnings. I began my commute extra early to avoid traffic. My plan worked until I reached San Diego County, and traffic slowed.

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Curriculum and Assessment Review - we want your views.

Living Geography

An RGS-heavy day today alongside my teaching. This post is a cross-posting from my dedicated RGS blog - please go and check it out if you haven't already. It shares all the news linked to my role as Vice President: Education. This curriculum review will be one of the things I'm interested in for the next year or so. Joined a very interesting Zoom call followed by some emails related to the opening of the RGS' request for your thoughts as part of the 'call for evidence' of the Francis Curriculum

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APSA’s Summer Rise High School Intern Program: Meet the Cohort

Political Science Now

This summer, the American Political Science Association partnered with Montgomery County Public School (MCPS) District’s Summer Rise Program to offer three high school students the opportunity to gain experience in political science knowledge production and higher education non-profits. Summer RISE (Reimagining an Innovative Student Experience) is an initiative led by the MCPS’s Department of Partnerships in collaboration with businesses, government agencies, higher education institutions, and n

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Violence and the Labor Struggle in Industrializing America: the 1910 LA Times Bombing

Teaching American History

During the late 19th and early 20th centuries American labor fought a sustained battle against American capitalists over who should determine the wages, hours, and working conditions in America’s booming factories—ownership or the workers. Battle tactics included dueling messaging in friendly publications, lobbying for favorable laws, and confrontations between strikes and strikebreakers.

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A Turn Against Empire: Benito Juárez’s Liberal Rejoinder to the French Intervention in Mexico

Political Science Now

A Turn Against Empire: Benito Juárez’s Liberal Rejoinder to the French Intervention in Mexico By Tom Long , University of Warwick , and Carsten-Andreas Schulz , University of Cambridge In the mid-nineteenth century—even as many European liberals took a “turn to empire”—Mexican President Benito Juárez and his supporters enunciated an anti-imperial, liberal vision for international politics.