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Dewey Decimal: The sorting system that revolutionized libraries

Strange Maps

Know thy shelf Bookish types will have guessed what’s going on here even without looking at the title of the map: They are Dewey numbers, indicating where on the shelves of your local library you can find the topics they denote. Thus, the History number for Illinois 977.3 Credit : Megan Byrd/Flickr, CC BY-SA 2.0 becomes 917.73

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If I was teaching Social Studies today…

Dangerously Irrelevant

It also offers a YouTube channel on which historians discuss their work , making history come alive for contemporary youth. The UC Davis California History Social Science Project frames current events within their historical context , connecting students’ present to the past.

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The Power of Microcredentials and America’s Higher Education Dilemma

ED Surge

This semester, the Community College of Aurora rolled out the first microcredentials in its history. These short courses offer students the opportunity to study behavioral health, which aligns with jobs in our region related to human services, sociology, counseling, psychology and social work. In the U.S.

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Transforming Adult Students into Scholars

ED Surge

Todd Burks teaches students to navigate the University of Virginia library. The exercise aims to get students comfortable using the university library. After her daughter was born, Ruth Cady enrolled in two classes at a local community college: psychology and biology. But he does work in a library. What is happening?’”

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Teachers, how does it feel to be an oppressor?

The Hechinger Report

The New York Daily News reported on February 1 — the start of Black History Month — that a teacher in a majority-minority school in the Bronx, NY, instructed three black children in her seventh-grade class to lie on the floor during a lesson on slavery. Related: When black history isn’t relegated to a single month.

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Schools struggle to help students return to class after a mental health crisis

The Hechinger Report

But eventually she agreed to transition back to school while spending one period a day in the program’s dedicated classroom, where she received emotional and psychological support and assistance catching up on the schoolwork she’d missed. The school’s makeshift library spills from one dedicated classroom into an adjacent hallway.

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A new movement to treat troubled children as ‘sad, not bad’

The Hechinger Report

For Tulane University psychology chair Stacy Overstreet, a leader of the five-school collaborative, work with Crocker and other trauma-sensitive schools flows from her work in New Orleans’ public-housing projects, where she found shockingly high rates of children suffering the psychological effects of being exposed to violence.