Mon.Apr 22, 2024

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Formative Assessment is Key to Being Responsive

Catlin Tucker

As students move through a lesson, some acquire information and skills more quickly than others. Some students will need additional support, scaffolds, feedback, or reteaching to understand key concepts and apply specific strategies, processes, or skills. We must collect formative assessment data in each lesson to understand our students’ progress and respond to their needs.

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PROOF POINTS: Stanford’s Jo Boaler talks about her new book ‘MATH-ish’ and takes on her critics

The Hechinger Report

“I am the next target,” says Stanford professor Jo Boaler, who is the subject of an anonymous complaint accusing her of a “reckless disregard for accuracy.” Credit: Photo provided by Jo Boaler Jo Boaler is a professor at the Stanford Graduate School of Education with a devoted following of teachers who cheer her call to make math education more exciting.

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Spring 2024 Higher Education Media Fellows

Institute for Citizens & Scholars

The Institute for Citizens & Scholars announces its seventh class of journalists named to the Higher Education Media Fellowship, supported by ECMC Foundation.

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OPINION: Community colleges have a lot of work to do helping students overcome learning gaps post pandemic

The Hechinger Report

I grew up in extreme poverty. The ability to access a free, high-quality education in North Texas changed my life. I benefited greatly from the ways community colleges meet students where they are and wrap their arms around them. Classes were small, and I had a clear sense of belonging, despite being the first in my family to go to college. I still remember having deep discussions with my English professor about author Larry McMurtry.

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Fostering Creativity and Inclusion Through Content Creation and Real-World Relevance

ED Surge

This article is part of a three-article series dedicated to harnessing powerful technology for powerful learning. In the articles, we share the perspectives of HP Teaching Fellows. Read the other articles here and here. Educators can harness content creation as a powerful tool to foster creativity and inclusion in the classroom by implementing a variety of strategies that engage students, cater to diverse learning needs and encourage a culture of collaboration and respect.

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Our child care system gives many moms a draconian choice: Quality child care or a career

The Hechinger Report

AUBURN, Wash. – After a series of low-paying jobs, Nicole Slemp finally landed one she loved. She was a secretary for Washington’s child services department, a job that came with her own cubicle, and she had a knack for working with families in difficult situations. Slemp expected to return to work after having her son in August. But then she and her husband started looking for child care – and doing the math.

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Are Colleges Ready For an Online-Education World Without OPMs?

ED Surge

For more than 15 years, a group of companies known as Online Program Management providers, or OPMs, have been helping colleges build online degree programs. And most of them have relied on an unusual arrangement — where the companies put up the financial backing to help colleges launch programs in exchange for a large portion of tuition revenue. It’s a model that has long raised eyebrows in higher ed, and now it’s one that is under scrutiny from federal agencies.

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Oral History Offers a Model for How Schools Can Introduce Students to Complex Topics

Education Week - Social Studies

Community history projects like a curriculum in Memphis, Tenn. can help students grapple with issues like school segregation, experts say.

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Sinking China

O-Level Geography

What caused the land to sink in China? What are the impacts of sinking land in China? Where are the areas most at risk? How does climate change increase the risk to thr people?

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Resetting KS2

Living Geography

I ended a busy first day of term yesterday by joining the other presenters at the GlosGeog Virtual Primary Teachmeet, organised by Emma Espley. I caught a few other presentations before I had to go to an after school INSET session. Thanks to those colleagues who gave up their time to join us. As it was taking place on Earth Day , the general theme was Sustainability.

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Womens History Today – Spring 2024 Issue

Women's History Network

The Spring 2024 issue of Women’s History Today is now available for purchase or downoad. This is an open issue that has a broad range of feature articles alongside the more conventional academic articles. The digital version of this edition is available free to all members – see details below.

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Dissertation Defense: Five Years of Recovery

Anthropology 365

On April 30, 2019 , a shooter entered my classroom on my last day of teaching at UNC-Charlotte. I was preparing to move to Texas to begin a doctoral program in environmental anthropology at UTSA. UTSA was so kind, offering to defer my enrollment as I struggled with the aftermath of the shooting. However, I needed to get out of Charlotte and do something to focus my attention as I found my “new normal.” Five years later to the day, I am defending my dissertation, en route to earning m

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Traffic hazards

O-Level Geography

Two killed and eight injured in a six-vehicle accident in Tampines on the morning of April 22. Traffic accidents claimed the lives of 136 people in 2023, a 25.9 per cent jump from the 108 deaths in 2022, according to the Traffic Police’s (TP) annual statistics report. Why is traffic accidents a hazard in urban neighbourhood? What was the main cause in the increase of traffic accidents in 2023?

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Reflecting on the Adventure: Recap of Edcamp XP: Games in Education

Digital Promise

The post Reflecting on the Adventure: Recap of Edcamp XP: Games in Education appeared first on Digital Promise.

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Fostering Community Through Collaborative Projects

Heinemann Blog

Collaborative writing projects can encourage students to work together and share ideas while developing their skills. Learn more from Georgia Heard.

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Flooding in China

O-Level Geography

What caused the flood? Where are the areas vulnerable to the flood? What are the impacts of the flood?

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Haunting Technoscientific Futures in South Korea

Anthropology News

There is an underground cave called Doteul in the dark overgrowth of Dongbak-Dongsan forest in Guija-eup, in central Jeju Island. If not for the narrow constructed road and guideposts for tourists, it would be almost impossible to find the cave. When Korea was engulfed in the violence of the Cold War in 1948, Doteul cave served as a hiding place and safe haven for villagers, since only the villagers with intimate knowledge of the area could find the cave.