The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 25, 2024

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: When ChatGPT burst into the world at the end of 2022, the prevailing feelings in higher education circles were fear of students cheating

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Digital Promise

JANUARY 25, 2024

Evaluating the effectiveness of instructional strategies requires a holistic approach and goes beyond data.

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Sapiens

JANUARY 25, 2024

Breakthrough treatments can now cure sickle cell anemia in the U.S. But the pricey therapies will hardly help in Nigeria, where social changes could do more for millions impacted by the disease. “DON’T PLAY WITH HER! SHE HAS SICKLE CELL” On a sunny day in Southern Nigeria, my uncle and aunt took their children to the hospital. Because their daughter had suffered swollen joints and body pains for months, a doctor advised genetic testing.

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Digital Promise

JANUARY 25, 2024

As Digital Promise’s pilot work in Haiti continues into its second year, our partners reflect on lessons learned.

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Heinemann Blog

JANUARY 25, 2024

This week on the podcast, Georgia Heard talks about teaching poetry today.

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Maitri Learning

JANUARY 25, 2024

The ability to hear all the sounds in words (phonemic awareness) is a key step to learning how to read. The young child's brain is primed to do this and we can help by playing a simple little game called the sound game or I Spy. There is more than one way to play this game but we like to do it in four steps: Beginning sounds (starting with something super obvious) Beginning and ending sounds Beginning, ending, and middle sounds (in that order) All the sounds in a word (segmenting) Let me show y

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Life and Landscapes

JANUARY 25, 2024

HUDSON IN KENTUCKY Oh, to have reached the mouth of the Kentucky River so early on in its exploration. To have tied up our flatboat to an exposed cage of a root-bound Sycamore. No fires, all quiet. A sentry hidden in the adjacent bank shrubbery. Others claim this place and paddle the river to enforce their possession! It’s morning now, a golden tongue of the sun’s warmth, growing out along the river’s silver chin.

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Heinemann Blog

JANUARY 25, 2024

Our guest on the podcast today is author Shamari Reid. His forthcoming book, Humans Who Teach: A Guide for Centering Love, Justice and Liberation in Schools is a beautiful, anecdotal exploration of self-compassion in a demanding profession. This conversation will give you insight into how those explorations became the foundation for a timely, compact book that guides you through the same work of examining self-care, boundaries, expansion and love.

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Political Science Now

JANUARY 25, 2024

Project Title: Weaving our Liberations: Navigational Relationality and Chamorro Refusal in Låguas and Gåni Samantha Barnettt, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa Samantha Marley Barnett is a PhD candidate in the Indigenous politics program in the political science department at University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. Samantha is the co-founder of Tåhdong Marianas, a collective of Chamorro artists and activists, and a lead author in a project with the University of Guam Press to write elementary school textbo

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Living Geography

JANUARY 25, 2024

A cross-posting from my GA Presidents blog. Following the call for nominations for the role of GA President 2025–26, an election is now taking place to discover the next GA President to succeed Hina Robinson, who will be GA President for 2024-5. Nominations have been received for Catherine Owen and Kit Marie Rackley. The GA President holds a number of key responsibilities, including setting the theme of the GA Annual Conference, chairing the Conference Planning Board and delivering the President

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Political Science Now

JANUARY 25, 2024

US Partisan Polarization on Climate Change: Can Stalemate Give Way to Opportunity? By Patrick J. Egan , New York University and Megan Mullin , University of California, Los Angeles The rise of climate change on the global political agenda coincided with the growth of partisan polarization in US politics and, in many ways, their trajectories mirror one another.

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