Digital Promise
SEPTEMBER 26, 2023
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The Hechinger Report
SEPTEMBER 26, 2023
BOSTON — Like a lot of high school students, Kevin Tran loves superheroes, though perhaps for different reasons than his classmates. This story also appeared in The Associated Press “They’re all insanely smart. In their regular jobs they’re engineers, they’re scientists,” said Tran, who is 17. “And you can’t do any of those things without math.” Tran also loves math.
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Anthropology for Beginners
SEPTEMBER 26, 2023
Cultural Relativism Cultural Relativism expresses the idea that the beliefs and practices of others are best understood in the light of the particular cultures in which they are found. The idea is predicated on the degree to which human behavior is held to be culturally determined, a basic tenet of American cultural anthropology. This is often joined with the argument that because all extant cultures are viable adaptations and equally deserving of respect, they should not be subjected to invidio
ED Surge
SEPTEMBER 26, 2023
Today, a 20-acre stretch of green space known as the “ Coy facility ” remains an active school campus in East Austin. But soon, Austin Independent School District will convert it into an apartment complex to house teachers and staff who are increasingly getting priced out of the urban Texas district. The goal is to create at least 500 new rental units on the site, alleviating — if not solving — the housing burden that so many of the district’s 10,000 staff members say they face.
Education Elements
SEPTEMBER 26, 2023
The Polarization of Education: As consultants at Education Elements, my teammates and I have the incredible opportunity to support districts around the country as they solve some of their toughest challenges. These challenges range from “How do we change our practices to increase students’ agency over their own learning?” to “How do we use quantitative and qualitative data to determine our priority areas over the next five years?
The Hechinger Report
SEPTEMBER 26, 2023
As higher education leaders in California and Louisiana, we see the impacts of the changing climate across the communities we serve. Propelled by historically warm oceans, after the hottest July ever recorded, Hurricane Idalia wreaked deadly havoc across the Southeast. In Louisiana, the record heat exacerbated hundreds of still-burning wildfires. In California, when Tropical Storm Hilary hit, the National Weather Service warned of life-threatening flooding, the streets filled with mud and reside
Digital Promise
SEPTEMBER 26, 2023
The post How One Bay Area District Is Addressing the Teacher Shortage through Affordable Housing appeared first on Digital Promise.
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Strange Maps
SEPTEMBER 26, 2023
In 2024, Germany could become the first major European country to legalize the recreational use of cannabis. But just because it will be allowed in theory, doesn’t mean you will be able to light up a joint in practice. Legal, but mostly in theory The bill now being prepared for a vote in the Bundestag proposes continued prohibition of cannabis use in so-called Jugendschutzgebiete (“youth protection zones”).
The Hechinger Report
SEPTEMBER 26, 2023
As Columbia University puts the last touches on its brand-new campus in Harlem, it has reached a milestone: The university is now the largest private landowner in New York City. This story also appeared in The New York Times In a city where land is more valuable than almost anywhere in the nation, the school now owns more than 320 properties, with a combined value of nearly $4 billion.
Steven V. Miller
SEPTEMBER 26, 2023
We typically credit Seymour Martin Lipset for first noting this correlation. I’m teaching an undergraduate class on quantitative methods where I’ve been cautioned—repeatedly—the students are not super eager to go as hard and fast as I’d like on this material. It’s already going to be an interesting experience breaking the traditional link to Stata on the curriculum in favor of R. 1 Toward that end, students will get basic univariate statistics, bivariate statistics, and get to play with a simple
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