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Different Ways to Show Learning

A Principal's Reflections

Research continues to provide further evidence that the conventional wisdom about learning styles should be rejected by educators and students alike (Kirschner, 2017; Husmann & O'Loughlin, 2018; Riener & Willingham, 2010). Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning 42(5), 32–35. Kirschner, P. Computers and Education 106, 166–171.

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US History Projects

Passion for Social Studies

In this project, students will create a magazine cover or documentary project that illustrates the culture, politics, art, music, and lifestyle of the 1920s. The President Project allows students to research the role of this office. There are projects ready for essential US History topics, such as the 1920s.

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Quitting jobs to qualify for child care

The Hechinger Report

Research quick take Access to high-quality pre-K is becoming an increasingly popular policy across the nations largest cities, according to a recently released report by CityHealth. CityHealth is partnering with the National Institute for Early Education Research to track this progress here.

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Best of SAPIENS 2024

Sapiens

Anthropologists from around the globe brought dazzling insights and deeply reported concerns to the digital pages of SAPIENS magazine. It is no small task for academics to transform their research and experiences into pieces that are evocative, insightful, and persuasive.

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Cementing the Past

Sapiens

A cover of Unifruitco Magazine , a publication of the United Fruit Company, promoted the companys restoration project at Zaculeu. Her research explores how archaeology as a discipline has been used in U.S. SAPIENS is an editorially independent magazine of the Wenner-Gren Foundation and the University of Chicago Press.

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Diving Deeper Into the Effects of Smartwatches on Kids, Schools and Families

ED Surge

That’s what EdSurge senior reporter Emily Tate Sullivan found when she spent months researching the recent boom in smartwatches for kids, for a feature story that EdSurge co-published with WIRED magazine last week. The worst case scenario in the minds of the parents I talked to is just always looming,” she says.

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Summer Learning Loss: A National Dilemma

A Principal's Reflections

In 2010 Time Magazine published an article that clearly articulated The Case Against Summer Vacation. Even though there is a great deal of research on the loss of learning that occurs during the summer I am perplexed by the fact that many schools and parents are not doing more to prevent this.