ED Surge

MARCH 20, 2024

Teaching creativity and creative thinking in K-12 has always been valued but often challenging to implement. Many standards and curricula don’t call out creativity explicitly, and teachers aren’t often trained on how to teach and assess creative thinking. As such, many students enter college and the workforce not having enough practice in key critical thinking skills that they need to be innovative problem-solvers and effective communicators.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 20, 2024

Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Early Childhood newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes every other Wednesday with trends and top stories about early learning. Last week the Massachusetts Senate unanimously passed a child care bill that would significantly expand state investment in child care. Less publicized: The bill also includes provisions that could make it harder for private equity-owned child care providers to expand significantly in the state.

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K-12 Government Research Education 121

ED Surge

MARCH 20, 2024

A few months ago, an assistant principal at my school gave me feedback I wasn’t prepared for. This colleague, who I manage, shared that during a recent meeting I had facilitated, my tone made them feel psychologically unsafe. Their words, and the description of their experience in the meeting left me stunned, confused and disappointed in myself. I kept thinking, “Me?

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Psychology Leadership Cultures Humanities 127

Heinemann Blog

MARCH 20, 2024

Heinemann announces the latest professional book acquisition from José Luis Vilson.

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Women's History Network

MARCH 20, 2024

Female Printmakers, Printsellers, and Print Publishers in the Eighteenth Century: The Imprint of Women, c. 1700-1830, Cristina S. Martinez & Cynthia E. Roman eds., Cambridge University Press, is now available for purchase in hardcover and digital format. Celebrating the news and sharing the 20% discount code.

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Political Science Now

MARCH 20, 2024

The American Political Science Association is pleased to announce the Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant (DDRIG) Awardees for 2023. The APSA DDRIG program provides support to enhance and improve the conduct of doctoral dissertation research in political science. Awards support basic research which is theoretically derived and empirically oriented.

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Research Political Science Social Science Government 51

Political Science Now

MARCH 20, 2024

Impartial Administration and Peaceful Agrarian Reform: The Foundations for Democracy in Scandinavia By David Andersen , Aarhus University Why was the route to democracy in Scandinavia extraordinarily stable? This paper answers this question by studying Scandinavia’s eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century peaceful agrarian reforms, which contributed to au spicious state–society relations that made democracy progress relatively smoothly.

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