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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. For example, the column on the left can have words and the column on the right can have definitions. These can also be thought of as Thematic or Conceptual Questions.

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Top scholar says evidence for special education inclusion is ‘fundamentally flawed’

The Hechinger Report

Beginning in the late 1980s, the federal government started to collect data on these two important, confounding factors academic achievement before diagnosis and disability severity so that policymakers could see how well students were faring under the 1975 federal law that mandates support for educating students with disabilities.

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Theater, economics and psychology: Climate class is now in session

The Hechinger Report

Oil and gas companies and their affiliated foundations finance climate and energy research, sit on university governance boards and host student-recruitment events on campus, the report notes. The post Theater, economics and psychology: Climate class is now in session appeared first on The Hechinger Report.

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Technologies for governing healthy bodies: “surveillance medicine” and public health

This Is Not a Sociology Blog

In this fourth post I will discuss how we can approach public health strategies as “technologies of government” which, like the devices discussed in my previous post, helped to construct the truth of the situation as well as providing a means to intervene in it and exert control and power.

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Teaching Syndemics

Teaching Anthropology

Secondly, syndemic health conditions adversely interact through various biological or psychological mechanisms or pathways. YouTube offers access to numerous video presentations on syndemics by invited government, academic, and organizational speakers. Why teach syndemics?

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Ancient Instincts, Modern Power Struggles: How Evolution Still Shapes Human Society

Anthropology.net

The basal regions—the parts responsible for basic survival instincts—still govern fundamental behaviors such as territorialism, reproduction, and fight-or-flight responses. Education, he suggests, must go beyond academic knowledge and address the psychological and neurological roots of human behavior.

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Learn more about: Exploring Indigenous Governance and Cultural Evolution in Oaxaca, Mexico

Political Science Now

Project Title:Exploring Indigenous Governance and Cultural Evolution in Oaxaca, Mexico Mauricio Fernndez Duque, Dartmouth College Mauricio Fernndez Duque is an assistant professor at CIDE and a visiting scholar at Dartmouth. Read about the funded projects.