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In a rapidly diversifying district with a largely white teaching force, how do you foster mutual trust and understanding? Send teachers to school. 
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U.S. cities were ranked by factors like job availability and comparative salary to determine the best locations for K-12 teachers in 2017.
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Any story we tell of our species, any science of human nature, that ignores how important stories are in shaping what and how we think and feel is false. We evolved to be ultra-social (and self-deficient), so we care deeply about character and plot. Via Nik Peachey, David M
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March 12, 2017 1:22 PM
A short article with so many links, you'll be spiraling down the rabbit hole of storytelling for quite a while! This completely supports my bias toward story, so it was a delight to read!
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VOA Learning English presents news, features, audio, video and multimedia about the U.S. and the world in American English. Stories are written at the intermediate and upper-beginner level. Words are spoken one-third slower for ESL learners. Via David M
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Growing numbers of computer science students are getting caught plagiarizing code, either from classmates or from someplace on the web.
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Hinds Community College saves students money and boosts retention rates.
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May 21, 2017 12:02 PM
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You’re hardly the only person who’s ever Google-stalked a crush or scoured a future employer’s Facebook page. In fact, there’s a really good chance that the person or the company has done exactly the same reconnaissance on you.
What they find can have a profound impact on your relationship (or potential relationship) with them. Which is to say: The “real you,” or your personal brand, now encompasses your behaviour in face-to-face interactions and your behaviour online.
Below, Business Insider has rounded up five examples of times when you might be judged — fairly or unfairly — based on your online presence.
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May 21, 2017 6:31 AM
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Public schools were created with a mission to bring diverse people together and inculcate shared values thought necessary for democracy. But teaching children about politically, religiously, racially, or otherwise highly charged topics has turned out to be very difficult, driven by fear of igniting explosive conflicts. The result has been that potential flashpoints—but also crucial topics—have often bee
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May 19, 2017 9:53 AM
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"The more I read and think about what makes a course "hard," the more it feels like we're trying to nail jello to the wall. When we meet the needs of some, the rest may feel squished. It may not be possible to get it right, all the time, for every student."
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May 15, 2017 10:48 AM
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The push for educational technology exists within a broader political, economic, ideological, and technological context. The all-too-common ignorance of this context and the subtleties of learning itself may prove problematic for edtech — and higher education's future.
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May 5, 2017 3:51 AM
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For the first time in 15 years of tracking more people around the world see themselves as global citizens rather than national citizens.
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May 3, 2017 6:13 PM
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This annual grant funds educators to teach empathy and civic participation in the classroom.
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College graduates need to highlight their unique skills and perspectives to stand out to recruiters in their job search.
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June 1, 2017 5:10 AM
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But when it comes to learning, it turns out, the best research shows that exams help learning rather than harm it, and most schools and universities actually should be doing more testing, not less of it. A large and growing body of studies indicates that assessments help students learn. More — and better — testing programs can also help teachers teach.
Cutting against the grain of all the negative chatter about tests, some cognitive psychologists, including Yana Weinstein at University of Massachusetts Lowell, have declared themselves to be “champions” of testing.
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May 30, 2017 2:37 PM
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There is a growing and disturbing trend of anti-intellectual elitism in American culture. It's the dismissal of science, the arts, and humanities and their replacement by entertainment, self-righteousness, ignorance, and deliberat
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May 30, 2017 2:17 PM
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The more we learn about Kennedy’s presidency, the more impressive he becomes.
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May 29, 2017 2:10 AM
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My Grandma had a few favourite phrases, one of which was "if you haven't got anything nice to say then it's best to say nothing at all". She was a…
Humans don't tend to like silence. It makes them feel awkward and uncomfortable so they have a tendency to try and fill in the gaps.
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May 24, 2017 3:32 AM
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Question: Can K-12 teachers without a deep understanding of social justice concerns effectively engage and enlighten their students on those topics? Joseph Flynn, James Cohen and Mike Manderino would say “no.” But the three professors from the Department of Curriculum and Instruction are ready to start equipping teachers to tackle those tough conversations from a... Read more »
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May 21, 2017 12:01 PM
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ICMN’s featured weekly pow wow in our pow wow planner is the Trail of Tears Remembrance Tribute in Battlefield, Missouri May 20-21.
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May 20, 2017 11:26 AM
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Why education must adapt now in order to accommodate the growing generation z—but how?
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May 17, 2017 1:53 AM
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Time spent outdoors makes us happier and healthier – and 'synthetic nature' may be able to replicate some of the effect.
Good question, but somehow, "artificial" nature just doesn't seem to have any chance of duplicating the real thing. Look at past efforts to bypass natural events that either had negative effects or were only a shadow of the real thing. -Lon
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Multicultural education is about more than a classroom with varied skin color – it includes careful examination of the neighborhoods.
