The Hechinger Report

APRIL 26, 2020

I’d already adapted this class in 2013 as one of Coursera’s free online humanities offerings. I myself was teaching a class on campus, “The Modern and the Postmodern,” that I am now teaching remotely. In our current stay-at-home period, more than a thousand people have joined the pre-recorded version of this class each week.

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ED Surge

JULY 7, 2022

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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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 23, 2020

The school is one of a number of colleges and universities that are standing out for their humane approaches to the coronavirus. Lauren Wright, a sophomore psychology major at Stevenson University in Maryland, is stuck in her apartment near campus because her mother is ill and can’t risk the exposure. She said she is “forever grateful.”

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

Luckily for all of us, the journal Psychological Science in the Public Interest published a review article a few years ago that remains the most comprehensive guide out there. Related: To err is human – and a powerful prelude to learning. Illustration: Stuart Kinlough/Getty Images. The research literature is frankly overwhelming.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 30, 2024

Over the past decade, a growing number of professors in fields as diverse as business, English and the performing arts have integrated their teaching with efforts to minimize their campuses’ waste and emissions, at a time when human-created climate change is fueling dangerous weather and making life on Earth increasingly unstable.

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Anthropology for Beginners

AUGUST 17, 2023

On the other hand, ethnography also designated the aspiration to collect systematically, and according to rigorous procedures, facts about human languages, customs, arts, and achievements. Ethnography and Ethnology Contents style='mso-element:field-begin'> TOC o "1-3" h z u Ethnography and Ethnology.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 7, 2017

In a windowless room in the library, first- and second-graders experiment with a strange teaching device that’s half computer and half wooden play table. She’s a postdoctoral student at nearby Carnegie Mellon University in a new field called “Human-Computer Interaction.” Because it …”. It’s hard to keep the kids from going off task.”

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Cult of Pedagogy

AUGUST 20, 2023

There’s human development and linguistics and neuroscience and psychology and special education and speech language pathology. You’ll get access to our members-only library of free downloads, including 20 Ways to Cut Your Grading Time in Half , the e-booklet that has helped thousands of teachers save time on grading.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Last year, a similar data breach of the Los Angeles school district led to thousands of students’ psychological records uploaded to the dark web. The three-year pilot would provide $200 million to schools and libraries eligible for the E-Rate program to use toward hiring cybersecurity experts and beefing up school network security.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

. “Heather” is once again a lightning rod as debates rage in Indiana over a Republican-backed bill that would allow schools and public libraries to be criminally prosecuted for books and other materials that contain obscenity, violence or pornography. This is what a Marxist believes.”.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 23, 2017

Over lunch at the CNA company cafeteria, a handful of interns chatted with T J Pavlov, a psychology teacher who oversees ChiTech’s Real-World Learning program and regularly checks in at student worksites. TJ Pavlov, a psychology teacher who oversees Chicago Technology Academy’s Real-World Learning program.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

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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Anthropology 365

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

After the shooting, I was invited to co-author an article on academic trauma for the American Journal of Human Biology. Opt for cost-effective alternatives like open-access texts and library resources to alleviate stress and remove barriers. Consider the financial strain course materials may impose on students.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 14, 2024

Lindsey Kimery, the coordinator of library services for Metro-Nashville Public Schools, said she has “no hidden agenda other than that reading was my favorite thing.” What I try to convey is that a library is a place for voluntary inquiry.” It just means we have books for those readers, too. This alarmed librarians.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 17, 2023

For two years, the club, known as PRISM (People Respecting Individuality and Sexuality Meeting), gathered in the town’s public library, because its dozen members couldn’t find a faculty adviser to sponsor it. The law also limits instruction on and discussion of human sexuality and gender identity in schools.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 10, 2024

It involves a systematic choice of concepts, a rigorous mapping of the relationships between those concepts and logical definitions that allow them to be used by artificial intelligence and understood by humans. Knowledge engineering is not a new idea — library scientists and linguists regularly practice it.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 23, 2025

These employees of Verner Center for Early Learning, a nonprofit in Asheville, have held such sessions in public libraries and the church since November to help young children process trauma they experienced in Helene. Physical damage is not the only barrier to reopening; for some educators, its the psychological impact.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 15, 2017

Leiserowitz — whose research has focused on how culture, politics and psychology impact public perception of the environment — said fossil-fuel companies have a stake in perpetuating a message of oil dependency. You’re exploiting that trusted relationship between the student and the teacher,” he said. Freddie Fuelless and Oliver Oilpatch.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 26, 2017

The college motto: “Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.”. It’s planning to build the first 34 of an eventual 300 homes on land it owns; residents will be able to take courses and use the recreation, library and dining facilities. Antioch publishes the prestigious literary magazine The Antioch Review.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 6, 2025

Like air, humanities-driven work is everywhere but taken for granted, so much a part of life its easy to overlook. Published by Cambridge University Press, Public Humanities is pitched as a very large tent. Its open to all disciplines, geographies, periods, methodologies, authors, and audiences across the humanities.

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