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United States High School Graduation Rates Interactive Map
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Percentage of incoming ninth graders who graduate in 4 years from a high school with a regular degree. 
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The goal reading a Web address is to make judgments about website information based upon what the URL tells you. Here are three questions that can help.
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Grocery Store Wars Organic Rebellion Star Wars Parody
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Does it damage children to teach them biblical creationism? Are there costs of denying evolution?
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"It can be difficult to conceive of the long process that's led the world to having its nine hottest years on record all after 2000. That's why it's nice that NASA has generated this nifty animation, which shows temperature abnormalities for every month of the past 13 decades. Watch reddish warm zones spread over the globe as time rolls past, like a virulent fever covering the body of a sick host."
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Emily Oster re-examines the stats on AIDS in Africa from an economic perspective and reaches a stunning conclusion: Everything we know about the spread of HIV on the continent is wrong.
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International aid groups make the same mistakes over and over again. David Damberger uses his own engineering failure in India to call for the development sector to publicly admit, analyze, and learn from their missteps.
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Do you have enough "stuff"? Then here’s what to ask for on your wedding registry.
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High School American History and Economics help. Supreme Court case summaries.
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Truly a must-see! SO CUTE! This delightful little girl will bring a smile to your face as she tells the most enchanting, fascinating and educational story of...
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View full lesson on ed.ted.com - http://ed.ted.com/lessons/why-do-competitors-open-their-stores-next-to-one-another-jac-de-haan Why are all the gas stations,...
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A Human Geography Resource; Especially for Teachers
The Human Imprint is home to everything Human Geography related for the student, educator, and the every day Joe/Jane. This site includes geographic related stories, lesson plans, and other links that bring us closer to understanding the “why of where.”
SFDSLibrary's curator insight,
May 13, 2014 7:58 AM
Words leading to new Geography treads. good for up to date articles.
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February 21, 2014 8:30 AM
Check out all of Tom Barrett's Interesting Ways crowd-sourced tips 
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February 28, 2014 11:24 AM
Good slideshow, even though some uses are repetitive. 
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March 3, 2014 6:16 AM
79 Interesting Ways to use Google Forms in the Classroom
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Maybe we could just stick with the "befores"?
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The National Archives Digital Classroom: Primary Sources, Activities and Training for Educators and Students.
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The world owes much of its cultural legacy to Constantinople’s walls. When Constantinople was under seige by neighboring enemies, the Roman city’s elaborate system of moats, outer walls, and inner walls stood tall. Surviving numerous fire attacks, the walls were eventually brought down by more modern tools of warfare, but, thankfully, classical culture survived.
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Authored by leading journalists from the BBC, Storyful, ABC, Digital First Media and other verification experts, the Verification Handbook is a groundbreaking new resource for journalists and aid providers. It provides the tools, techniques and step-by-step guidelines for how to deal with user-generated content (UGC) during emergencies. Via Nik Peachey
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February 7, 2014 8:22 AM
Ook al is dit handboek voor journalisten bedoeld, kan het ook jou helpen om de authenticiteit van inhoud na te gaan.
flea palmer's curator insight,
February 10, 2014 5:55 AM
Excellent book, easy to read as presented as a series of case studies. 
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February 12, 2014 8:59 AM
What we need to think about in our daily info overload
Whitney Souery's curator insight,
May 28, 2014 6:44 PM
This map is the epitome of agricultural geography and the beginning of a series of questions such as why did all of Europe choose to be GMO-free? Or, does the proximity of European countries have to do with the fact that they share similar values (such as being GMO-free)? What does the EU have to do with this pattern? Because the EU chooses to be GMO-free, European countries are making a statement and consequently refining agricultural markets by refusing to import certain genetically modified foods. Agricultural geography thus shares some patterns across space- with all of Europe sharing simile agricultural policies. 
Brian Wilk's curator insight,
March 29, 2015 8:23 AM
This is an interesting development that has major implications for the world and its food supply. The social and political buzz combined with corporate profits intersecting with morality about sums up this complex and diverse issue. One platform is the compliance of companies using GMO's without placing it on the ingredient label. People clearly have a right to know what's going in their bodies, and to choose whether or not they want to. Another is that GMO's are nearly everywhere in the food system, with some estimates that 70% of the corn produced is of this variety. For folks who want to feed the world and prevent hunger more efficiently this is a huge win. Think of the lives disease resistant grains alone could save. But is it safe? Other issues include, how crops that are non-GMO can be inadvertently cross-pollinated with those that are naturally grown. How is that being monitored, and who is doing it? Is it self-policed or are governments watching over this? My personal worry is that we create a crop that causes digestive or nutrient issues that "infects" the food supply, or worse, we take the technology to humans with dire consequences. This will be one of the hot topics that will be debated for decades to come. Corporate greed versus what's right for the people of the world. Call me a romantic, but I hope we as society do the right thing and feed our planet first. Perhaps money can be genetically modified to have less of an importance in society. 
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March 16, 2016 3:55 PM
Would you like to map out the GMO-free regions of Europe? Looking for resources discussing the impacts of GMOs on society? This is a partisan site with some nice resources for a student project. Additionally, in this NPR podcast they discuss how some American companies are trying to be GMO free in a GMO world.
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A singing peanut and his gang of shelled friends explain that sometimes free trade is just nuts. For more information about this film and to take action visi...
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8 minute video in which “a singing peanut and his gang of shelled friends explain that sometimes free trade is just nuts”A cartoon animation explaining the effects of loans, structural adjustment and cash crops, and their impacts on poorer countriesShows how the World Bank’s plan forSenegalto grow nuts for export backfired
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Learn about how Torah scrolls are written in Israel. Rabbi Messer travels to Israel and interviews a Sefer (one who writes Torah scrolls).
