HistoryRewriter

DECEMBER 1, 2023

The Game Of Quotes is a fun and fast-paced activity that can be used to motivate students to pay close attention to the historical texts they are reading in your class. The key to the activity is asking students to find a quote that responds to a borrowed phrase or creative prompt. Students race through rounds to find the most appropriate, insightful, or entertaining response.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 1, 2023

As part of a new program, every third grader in Albuquerque Public Schools spends a day at the Los Padillas Wildlife Sanctuary just outside the city. There, a wide variety of local landscapes are packed into five acres: a meadow, piñon, juniper and cottonwood trees, an arroyo and even a pond — a rarity in the desert. This story also appeared in Mind/Shift “All the way into October they can fish in the pond with a net,” said Monie Corona, an environmental education resource teacher for the distri

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ACRE

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Women have always worked, and yet their economic contributions are often undervalued. Dr. Claudia Goldin wanted to understand why. Her economic history research expands 200 years to provide an account of women’s participation in labor markets over time and describe the history of women’s continuing economic liberation. The 2023 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences (in Memory of Alfred Nobel) was awarded to Dr.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Higher Education newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes every other Thursday with trends and top stories about higher education. Email Address Choose from our newsletters Weekly Update Future of Learning Higher Education Early Childhood Proof Points Leave this field empty if you’re human: To Florina Caprita, the mother of three young children, the paralegal studies program at Ashworth College seemed like the perfect route t

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Perspectives in Anthropology

DECEMBER 1, 2023

by Keith Hart Religion belongs to a set of terms that also includes art and science. The last, whichbegan as a form of knowledge opposed to religious mysticism, is now often opposed tothe arts.

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