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20 Types Of Questions For Teaching Critical Thinking

TeachThought

Other possibilities: Left Column/Right Column: Inventors/Inventions; Forms of Government/Strengths and Weaknesses, Geometric Shape/Formula to calculate area; etc. In a short answer, the responder must answer the prompt without the benefit of any additional information or possible answers.

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Meet DFP Spring Fellow, Jane Betchley, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Political Science Now

She holds a BA in modern history and MA in political economy from the University of Essex, and she has previously held various roles working for the British government in the U.S.

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As more young people receive psychiatric care, some hospitals have opened their own schools

The Hechinger Report

Marraccini, an associate professor of school psychology at UNC’s School of Education Now, as the rate of young people experiencing mental health distress climbs, with in-patient mental health hospitalizations rising by more than 120 percent between 2016 and 2022 according to one measure, the need for school support programs has grown.

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Learning How to Wash Your Hands in Anthropology Class 

Teaching Anthropology

Anne Schiller, George Mason University From the outset of the SARS-Covid 19 pandemic, governments and private entities worldwide launched health awareness campaigns that included instruction on cleansing one’s hands. I found them to be uplifting and informative, especially in this uncertain time. It is not one size fits all’.

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How Schools Can Better Support Military Children and Families

ED Surge

The Barriers Military Children Face The challenges families experience in military life can be a source of psychological stress, especially for children. As educators, it is imperative that we acknowledge the challenges this life can bring and our role in supporting military children and families.

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This $90M Education Research Project Is Banking on Data Privacy to Drive Insights

ED Surge

With digital education platforms generating data on how millions of students are learning, they are also sitting on veritable information gold mines for researchers who are trying to improve education. Part of why this model would be so powerful is how it would increase the scale at which education research is done, Baraniuk says.

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With higher ed in crisis, the lack of financial oversight is glaring

The Hechinger Report

Government agencies and accrediting bodies have safeguards to protect students from such abrupt college closures, but the oversight is often weak or too late. The day news of the closing broke, Anamarc officials sent students away with nothing but promises of more information to come. Credit: Yvonne Mendez. Federal oversight lags.