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Demystifying Post-Docs: Virtual Workshop Series: APSA Status Committee on Graduate Students in the Profession

Political Science Now

Demystifying Post-Docs Wednesday, April 30, 2025 3:00 p.m. Eastern | Register Here Join the APSA Committee on the Status of Graduate Students in the Profession for a virtual workshop sharing best practices and uncovering the hidden curriculum surrounding the post-doc. Post-docs are a common entry point for new political science PhDs to enter the academic workforce while advancing their research and teaching portfolio.

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Boosting Student Success with Studies Weekly at Empower Community School | Customer Success Story

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Boosting Student Success with Studies Weekly at Empower Community School | Customer Success Story Apr 21, 2025 Studies Weekly NEWSLETTER Join us as we step inside Empower Community School to hear from educators dedicated to creating meaningful learning experiences with the help of Studies Weekly. ▶ Your browser does not support the video tag.

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From The 74: Public Education Has Lots of Positive Stories to Tell. We Help Schools Do It

Digital Promise

The post From The 74: Public Education Has Lots of Positive Stories to Tell. We Help Schools Do It appeared first on Digital Promise.

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Toxic Speech and Limited Demand for Content Moderation on Social Media

Political Science Now

Toxic Speech and Limited Demand for Content Moderation on Social Media By Franziska Pradel , Technical University of Munich ; Jan Zilinsky , Technical University of Munich ; Spyros Kosmidis , University of Oxford ; Yannis Theocharis , Technical University of Munich. When is speech on social media toxic enough to warrant content moderation? Platforms impose limits on what can be posted online, but also rely on users reports of potentially harmful content.

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The Fens - updating a unit

Living Geography

This year, we've been revisiting quite a few of the units which we've taught for a few years. Natural England have a website which shows the different National Character Areas (NCAs) The Fens are number 46. Description from the site: ".a distinctive, historic and human-influenced wetland landscape lying to the west of the Wash estuary, which formerly constituted the largest wetland area in England.

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The Devastating Floods in Eastern Kentucky (part 1)

Life and Landscapes

The Devastating Floods in Eastern Kentucky (Part 1) (From of the last chapter in my book entitled, “Surrounding the Kentucky River, from its beginnings to the end.”) The deluge began in Eastern Kentucky on the night of July 27, 2022. I was informed by a resident of Sergent, a mining town on the upper North Fork of the Kentucky River, that when he was woken up at 6:00 AM the next morning, waters had surrounded his home, lifting up whatever they came in contact with, and thrusting the

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Music for today.

Living Geography

I've been preparing some ideas for a project exploring world music and geographies of music. it'll be a while before it comes out. In the meantime, Happy Easter!

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COLUMN: Teachers, states stepping up to keep climate change education alive as federal government defunds it

The Hechinger Report

This past fall, at an event in New York Citys National Museum of the American Indian, a packed room of educators and federal employees applauded the release of a document titled Climate Literacy: Essential Principles for Understanding and Addressing Climate Change. The 52-page document, released at Climate Week NYC , laid out principles for improving young peoples understanding of the science, skills and aptitudes required to address this fast-moving global challenge including hope and urgency.

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Head Start’s Future Is Uncertain. Rural Americans Aren’t Ready for What Happens Next.

ED Surge

Along the Canadian border in north central Washingtons Okanogan County, where the closest major city is at least 100 miles away and infrastructure is sparse, the Okanogan County Child Development Association oversees nine Head Start centers in the region. In an area where wages havent kept up with inflation, forcing working families to make measured financial choices, these centers provide child care to nearly 160 area preschoolers, toddlers and infants who are living at or below the federal pov

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Whole, skim or soy? The congressional battle over milk in school lunches

The Hechinger Report

This story was produced by Grist and reprinted with permission. In 2010, United States lawmakers passed the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act, which aimed to tackle both childhood obesity and hunger by making school meals more nutritious. Two years later, the Department of Agriculture updated its guidance for schools participating in the National School Lunch Program, or NSLP, in accordance with the law.

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OPINION: America’s promise of free education should include all children, regardless of immigration status

The Hechinger Report

On his first day in office, President Donald Trump rescinded key protections limiting immigration enforcement in schools and other sensitive locations, a move that overturned long-held policy and created widespread fear among immigrant families. This reversal now threatens a fundamental American promise: that every child has the right to an education.

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A treasure trove of education reports and studies is under threat

The Hechinger Report

When youre looking for research on four-day school weeks or how to teach fractions, or trying to locate an historical document, such as the landmark Coleman Report of 1966, you might begin with Google. But the reason that high-quality research results pop up from your Google search is because something called ERIC exists behind the scenes. ERIC stands for Education Resources Information Center and it is a curated online public library of 2.1 million educational documents that is funded and manag

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