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Is It Time for a National Conversation About Eliminating Letter Grades?

ED Surge

As Joshua Eyler was researching a book on what brain science tells us about how to improve teaching , one issue kept coming up as an underlying problem: The way schools and colleges grade student work is at odds with effective teaching. The science says kids need to feel free to try things and fail, and that the deepest learning comes when failure happens and the student figures out how to course-correct, Eyler says.

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Prepare for Fall Multi Day seminars!

Teaching American History

Discussion of primary documents. A supportive and engaged group of educators. Historic locations. Free professional development. What more could you ask for? Applications open soon for our Fall 2024 Multi Day seminars ! We are hosting seminars on a variety of topics in American history and politics. The application will be open April 8-April 30. Some of our topics include: The Underground Railroad at The Underground Railroad Heritage Center in Niagara Falls, NY West Coast Immigration at the Ang

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Students with disabilities often snared by subjective discipline rules

The Hechinger Report

For the first 57 minutes of the basketball game between two Bend, Oregon, high school rivals, Kyra Rice stood at the edges of the court taking yearbook photos. With just minutes before the end of the game, she was told she had to move. Kyra pushed back: She had permission to stand near the court. The athletic director got involved, Kyra recalled. She let a swear word or two slip.

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Celebrating Student-Led Art at Mineola Public Schools

Digital Promise

The post Celebrating Student-Led Art at Mineola Public Schools appeared first on Digital Promise.

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Defining Religion: PowerPoint

ShortCutsTV

This PowerPoint Presentation is designed to be a fairly simple introduction to the topic of religion by suggesting how it can be defined in terms of three main criteria: It introduces students, in other words, to some instances of how religious behaviour differs from other types of non-religious (secular) behaviour.

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GA Conference 2024 - Train strike news.

Living Geography

I'm afraid to say I won't be at the GA Conference this year. I shall miss out on it for the first time in many years due to the train strikes affecting the tickets I booked months ago. I'm sorry not to be there for Denise Freeman's Presidential lecture, and catching up with the whole geography community, and also a chance to congratulate Steve Brace in person for his recent appointment as Chief Executive of the GA.

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Women and Worlds of Learning in Europe: From the Medieval to the Modern Day – Registration Open

Women's History Network

‘Women and Worlds of Learning’ is an interdisciplinary conference focused on the place of women within higher and further education. The event will take place in the History Faculty Building at the University of Oxford on Friday 12th April and Saturday 13th April.

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Effectively Teaching the Four Genres of Writing to Students

Heinemann Blog

The content of this post has been lightly adapted from A Guide to the Writing Workshop, 3–5 , a component of the Units of Study in Writing, 3–5 sets.

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2023 Education Impact Report Released

Smithsonian Voices | Smithsonian Education

This past year, the Smithsonian Education community has worked tirelessly to solidify partnerships, launch innovative initiatives, and empower youth and educators alike

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Using ESSER Funds Before They Expire on September 30, 2024

TCI

In response to the challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic, the Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief (ESSER) program was introduced to provide federal funding assistance to K-12 schools nationwide. This funding aimed to mitigate the pandemic’s impact on student learning and support schools during these challenging times. The federal government has allocated approximately $190 billion through three rounds of funding, allowing schools to address learning loss, improve infrastructure,

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Tilly Goes to Church: The Religious and Medieval Roots of European State Fragmentation

Political Science Now

Tilly Goes to Church: The Religious and Medieval Roots of European State Fragmentation By Anna Grzymala-Busse , Stanford University The starting point for many analyses of European state development is the historical fragmentation of territorial authority. The dominant bellicist explanation for state formation argues that this fragmentation was an unintended consequence of imperial collapse, and that warfare in the early modern era overcame fragmentation by winnowing out small polities and conso

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To Help Boys, Should Schools Focus on Masculinity — or on Students’ Shared Humanity?

ED Surge

When she works in a classroom, Niobe Way, a professor of developmental psychology at New York University, wants to dive into the deep end. It’s a technique she’s borrowed from the young children she interviews for her research, who often ask the most arresting, meaningful questions. But that natural proclivity for learning about the thoughts and feelings of others — an essential part of forming friendships or connecting with teachers — seems to get beaten out of many students by the time they’ve

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2024 U.S. Election Webinar Series: Preparing Students for the 2024 Election: Campus Engagement and Civic Education

Political Science Now

Join the American Political Science Association (APSA) for a webinar discussion sharing best practices to connect students to the 2024 U.S. Election. The 2024 U.S. election presents educators across the United States with the opportunity to help their students engage in the democratic system. Why is it essential to teach democratic citizenship and civic engagement?

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C. J. Prentiss ¡Presente!: A Path Maker for Justice

Zinn Education Project

We are saddened by the news that the powerful Ohio organizer and political leader C. J. Prentiss died on April 2, 2024. Our hearts go out to her family, friends, and community. Our Prentiss Charney Fellowship is named for Prentiss and Michael Charney. Prentiss served in the Ohio State Senate and Charney was a teacher and labor organizer. Married for 40 plus years, they lived in North Kingsville, Ohio, and continued to support social justice causes with a focus on education.

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Echo Chambers Polarize

Political Science Now

In the APSA Public Scholarship Program, graduate students in political science produce summaries of new research in the American Political Science Review. This piece, written by Dirck de Kleer , covers the new article by Sara B. Hobolt, Katharina Lawall, and James Tilley, “The Polarizing Effect of Partisan Echo Chambers” What happens in the course of a 30-minute discussion about politics with strangers over Zoom?