The Hechinger Report

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High school students in a calculus class. A 2024 survey of college admissions officers shows that many give extra weight to applicants with calculus on their transcripts. Credit: Brett Coomer/Houston Chronicle via Getty Images) Calculus can be a miserable slog for many high schoolers. Its estimated that 20 percent of students (about 800,000 a year) take the subject, generally when they are seniors.

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Digital Promise

DECEMBER 9, 2024

The post 6 Strategies for Schools to Maximize Learning by Minimizing Device Repairs appeared first on Digital Promise.

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Women's History Network

DECEMBER 9, 2024

During the late 18th and early 19th centuries, American Protestant churches prohibited women from preaching or becoming ordained ministers.

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Digital Promise

DECEMBER 9, 2024

The post Digital Promise Launches First-Ever Regional Cohort for Computational Thinking Pathways appeared first on Digital Promise.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 9, 2024

Artificial intelligence is rapidly changing society, workplace and education. To be prepared for the college and career opportunities of today and the future, students must learn to be AI Ready. AI readiness ensures that students can thrive in the future as informed users and developers of emerging technologies, including AI. Gwinnett County Public Schools (GCPS) embraced AI technology by launching a K-12 AI Ready pilot in 2019, embedding AI Ready learning across content areas through the lens o

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Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 9, 2024

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 9, 2024

Esta historia fue publicada originalmente en ingls por CalMatters. Suscrbete a los boletines de noticias This story was translated by CalMatters. Read in English. En 1953, Brbara Flores entr al knder en la Escuela Primaria Washington en Madera, California, una pequea ciudad en el Valle Central rodeada de campos agrcolas. Su madre y su abuela le haban dicho que iba “a aprender mucho y que le iba a gustar” Flores, una nia que algn da se convertira en maestra, estaba emocionada y les cr

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ShortCutsTV

DECEMBER 9, 2024

In which Ben Ambridge takes 15 minutes out of his very busy life (probably. Im speculating. I dont actually know.

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Sapiens

DECEMBER 9, 2024

Black African women in former colonial centers such as London gesture to subversive ways of communicating with those imprisoned in archives across generations. despite the Maangamizi,( Maangamizi is a Kiswahili term that means the intentional destruction and dispossession of peoplehood, nationhood, and relationships to Ancestral Lands that has occurred as a result of the continuum of Afrikan chattel enslavement, colonialism, and neocolonialism.) you survive. no paraffin lamps, no sizzling meat

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Political Science Now

DECEMBER 9, 2024

Enhanced Outcomes, Improved Feedback: Maximizing Success Through Collaborative Final Projects in Quantitative Methods Courses By Michael A. Hansen , University of Turku Teaching quantitative methods in political science often presents challenges due to student apprehensions, the complexity of the material, and the time demands on instructors. This study advocates for incorporating collaborative final projects to address these issues.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 9, 2024

Having covered the child care industry for nearly a decade and experienced the ins and outs of different types of care with my own two sons, I thought I had seen just about everything. But a little over a year ago, I came across a news story that stopped me in my tracks. In an attempt to address child care shortages, lawmakers in Wisconsin were proposing putting teenagers as young as 16 in classrooms as teachers, potentially in charge of group sizes that would be larger than ever before.

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Political Science Now

DECEMBER 9, 2024

APSA Teaching & Learning Symposium Call for Proposals: Approaches to Human Rights Pedagogy | Submit proposals here APSA Headquarters, Washington, DC | June 19-21, 2025 The American Political Science Associations (APSA) Teaching and Learning Program, in partnership with Human Rights Review, is pleased to announce a call for proposals for a small cohort of scholars to participate in a three-day symposium focused on human rights pedagogy to be held on June 19-21, 2025 at APSAs headquarters in

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 9, 2024

This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. In 1953, Brbara Flores entered kindergarten at Washington Elementary School in Madera, California, a small city in the Central Valley surrounded by farm fields. Her mother and grandmother had talked it up: Youre going to learn a lot. Youre going to like it. She believed them.

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Life and Landscapes

DECEMBER 9, 2024

Some have asked see the lyrics to my song, “Becoming Old, ” recently performed in Shelbyville, Kentucky, at the “New Reggie Van Stockum Show.” Here they are, written ten years ago. I am pleased to continue playing it, even as I am becoming older! Here is the video of our recent performance: (click picture or link below) The “Reggie Van Stockum Trio” with Paulie Felice on lead guitar and Zach Mathis on percussion playing the RVSjr original song., “Becomin

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Studies Weekly

DECEMBER 9, 2024

Game On! Learning Games to Elevate Student Engagement Dec 06, 2024 By Debbie Bagley I love to hear ways teachers make learning engaging and fun by adding elements of gamification into their classrooms. Teachers are masters at selecting games that relate to and practice learning objectives. By clearly defining what skills or concepts they want their students to practice, teachers can achieve this through the game.

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Life and Landscapes

DECEMBER 9, 2024

KENTUCKY’S LITTLE SWITZERLAND? In the Commonwealth of Kentucky? Am I kidding? About the mountains, the forests, the people, the water? The gravel? And what about Abraham Lincoln’s grandmother? How do we get there? Through Springfield, Kentucky on this trip, and then cross-country over the rugged hills of the Eden Shale Belt. They show the tight dendritic drainage pattern so familiar in Eastern Kentucky, only lower in elevation.

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Political Science Now

DECEMBER 9, 2024

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 Jack Wippell, covers the new article by Tabitha Bonilla, “The Influence of Partisanship on Assessments of Promise Fulfillment and Accountability.” Does partisanship undermine accountability?

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