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April 9, 2014 4:03 AM
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Paul Fanlund: On racial disparities, a top goal is to help you sort things out Capital Times Topics planned are the “achievement gap,” the oft-used term for the under-achievement of African-Americans in our schools; high incarceration rates of...
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April 9, 2014 3:49 AM
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84% of Americans are unable to locate Ukraine on a world map; those that can't are more likely to support military intervention.
Great presentation design can be difficult to master because it requires the coordination of many elements, including colors, fonts, images, icons and background. While there are a lot of pieces to the presentation design puzzle, don’t be overwhelmed.
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March 27, 2014 1:33 PM
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A teacher in Massachusetts who has spent more than a quarter century in the classroom is drawing attention after she quit her job over her growing frustration with the school system’s emphasis on standardized testing. Because of “so many things that pulled me away from the classroom and fractured my time with the children,” kindergarten teacher Susan Sluyter quit last month. “It takes the joy out of learning for the children," she told TODAY. "It takes the joy out of teaching.”
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from Equality and Diversity
March 25, 2014 10:06 AM
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The proportion of female chief executives around the world is growing but women’s overall share of senior business roles has stalled, research has found.
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March 25, 2014 10:03 AM
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from Fantastic Maps
March 23, 2014 10:20 AM
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Top mapmakers split on recognizing Crimea as part of Russia. The U.S. and other Western governments may doggedly refuse to recognize Crimea’s annexation by Russia, but one prominent American mapmaker will. “We map de facto, in other words we map the world as it is, not as people would like it to be,” Juan José Valdés, the National Geographic’s geographer and director of editorial and research for National Geographic Maps, tells U.S. News. “As you can only surmise, sometimes our maps are not received in a positive light by some individuals who want to see the world in a different light,” Valdés says.
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from Colorful Prism Of Racism
March 22, 2014 4:10 AM
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Drawing on data from the 2010 U.S. Census, the map shows one dot per person, color-coded by race. That's 308,745,538 dots in all. White: blue dots; African American: green dots; Asian: red; Latino: orange; all others: brown Last year, a pair of researchers from Duke University published a report with a bold title: “The End of the Segregated Century.” U.S. cities, the authors concluded, were less segregated in 2012 than they had been at any point since 1910. But less segregated does not necessarily mean integrated–something this incredible map makes clear in vivd color. The map, created by Dustin Cable at University of Virginia’s Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service, is stunningly comprehensive. Drawing on data from the 2010 U.S. Census, it shows one dot per person, color-coded by race. That’s 308,745,538 dots in all–around 7 GB of visual data. It isn’t the first map to show the country’s ethnic distribution, nor is it the first to show every single citizen, but it is the first to do both, making it the most comprehensive map of race in America ever created.
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from Learning & Technology News
March 6, 2014 10:21 AM
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danah boyd (she doesn’t capitalize her name) is a Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research and a Fellow at Harvard’s Berkman Center, where she looks at how young people use social media as part of their everyday lives. She has a new book out called It’s Complicated: The Social Lives of Networked Teens, and she’s made it available as a free PDF. On her website she writes, “I didn’t write this book to make money. I wrote this book to reach as wide of an audience as I possibly could.
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March 5, 2014 9:31 AM
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How many yards will a team lose if one of its players says the word during a game? And will this curb overall use of the word?
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March 4, 2014 1:05 AM
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February 28, 2014 1:57 PM
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In 1963, kids in the 10th percentile of income fell behind children in the upper echelon of wealth by about a year or so. Today, that gap is closer to four years.
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February 28, 2014 1:29 PM
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The hashtag 'NotYourMascot', a protest against the Washington Redskins and other offensive teams, took Twitter by storover the Super Bowl weekend.
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April 9, 2014 3:57 AM
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Washington Post School districts say new school finance bill will widen disparities Lawrence Journal World Topeka — The Legislature's new school finance bill will continue to widen the funding gap between wealthy and poor districts, attorneys...
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April 9, 2014 3:45 AM
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The Guardian (blog) Sexism, double discrimination and more than one kind of prejudice The Guardian (blog) "Double discrimination" (or, indeed, triple or quadruple) has proved to be a major recurring theme within the project and is a crucial focus...
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April 9, 2014 3:24 AM
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Psychologists and eLearning professionals ahave always been interested in how we consume information online.Here' re some relevant points.
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March 27, 2014 1:32 PM
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Indian Americans The first major influx of immigrants arrived in the early 1900s to work as farmhands. After initially being considered Caucasian and
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March 25, 2014 10:04 AM
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March 23, 2014 10:31 AM
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Study: Community College Transfers as Likely to Earn a BA as Four-Year Students, Despite Credit Transfer Roadblocks
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March 22, 2014 4:23 AM
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Blogs, papers and other projects have prompted wider discussion of “microaggressions,” remarks with a basis in racial, gender or other stereotypes.
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March 22, 2014 4:04 AM
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Racial minorities are more likely than white students to be suspended from school and be taught by lower-paid teachers with less experience, according data released by the Department of Education.
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March 6, 2014 10:16 AM
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What does National Council of La Raza President and CEO Janet Murguía think Obama should do to slow the number of deportations?
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March 5, 2014 9:25 AM
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You won’t believe who Dr. James David Manning believes is responsible for unleashing this ‘devastation’ on the Black community.
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March 4, 2014 1:01 AM
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from Into the Driver's Seat
February 28, 2014 1:30 PM
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by Larry Ferlazzo and Katie Sypnieski "Helping English-language learners develop proficiency in academic language has always been a priority for K-12 educators, and its importance has only been heightened with the advent of the Common Core. To better understand academic language, let's examine the distinction between two terms introduced by Jim Cummins, basic interpersonal communicative skills (BICS) andcognitive academic language proficiency (CALP), that have impacted both policy and practices in second-language education:"
Jim Lerman's insight:
Article contains numerous practical recommendations.
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