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What is Learning Sciences and Why Does It Matter?

Digital Promise

Studies learning activity systems (not just one component)—such systems that integrate materials, technologies, supports, teacher professional development, assessments, leadership engagement, and other elements required to change teaching and learning. Sometimes a related field called “sciences of learning” is confused with learning sciences.

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Revisiting the Spiritual Violence of BS Jobs

Sapiens

Graeber’s book is conversational in style, drawing on history, literature, sociology, anthropology, and pop culture to support his arguments. Taskmasters” (such as some middle managers or leadership professionals) are people who supervise people who don’t need supervision. But most “labor” is not actually about producing, he argues.

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Teaching to the student, not the test

The Hechinger Report

The show has everything — sociology, psychology, interpersonal relations, ethics,” says Barile, who is in her 24th year of teaching. “We Finally, the approach breaks from traditional classrooms where students are expected to sit and listen. He was the only minority in a leadership role at Revere High, for instance.

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What happened when a South Carolina city embraced career education for all its students

The Hechinger Report

Each elementary school focuses on a specific area — engineering, math and science, the arts, leadership, or foreign languages, among others. Those programs will change based on demand, said program director Katie Porter; the more popular offerings are likely to get rolled out to the district’s traditional career centers. Whittenberg.

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For adults returning to college, ‘free’ tuition isn’t enough

The Hechinger Report

But now a convergence of factors — a dwindling pool of traditional-age students, the call for more educated workers and a pandemic that highlighted economic disparities and scrambled habits and jobs — is putting adults in the spotlight. Traditional institutions have treated adults “as a kind of afterthought,” he said.

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What happens when teachers run the school

The Hechinger Report

In general, teachers don’t have the kind of voice that other professionals typically do,” said Richard Ingersoll, a professor of education and sociology at the University of Pennsylvania. Today, Education Evolving identifies roughly 300 schools that follow the teacher-powered model. “In We all put in countless extra hours.

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At top colleges that train America’s elite, veterans are an almost invisible minority

The Hechinger Report

In his sociology class, the Western Way of War, he felt it might add to the conversation. “I In leadership and life, symbolism counts. In his two years at Penn State before transferring to Princeton this fall, he rarely mentioned his military service.