ED Surge

MARCH 26, 2024

“One of the activities that we do is the classroom constitution,” she says, “where from the minute the students come together as a new community, you walk in and you say, ‘How are we going to govern ourselves?’”

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

These systems could also, Smigielski points out, help state leaders make an argument to the federal government that they need more funding. And they could help states distribute the funds they get every year from the federal government in a more intentional way, making sure that dollars are flowing in the direction of need.

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ED Surge

MAY 20, 2024

Mysa’s tuition costs parents who don’t receive aid around $20,000 a year, comparable to what it costs the government to educate a student in a public school. The idea is that having smaller school sizes enables students to develop much deeper relationships at school, says Siri Fiske, founder of Mysa School.

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ED Surge

MARCH 15, 2024

As a high school social studies teacher, my job includes helping students learn to use evidence to present arguments, engage in civil discourse and take informed action to bring about change. Sure, the skills of writing may have been practiced, but so what? To what end? A core part of that is preparing students to write out in the real world.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Wuori’s arguments throughout the concise, 101-page book are premised on what he calls “The Three Simple Truths of Early Development”: Learning begins in utero and never stops. Our two major political parties have gone back and forth about the size of government. Those are two totally free and “simple changes” he proposes to the field.

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ED Surge

MAY 7, 2024

I think the Department of Education or local governments need to establish AI literacy as a core competency in schools. How optimistic are you that this and other approaches that you're experimenting with can work? I think we're in for a very bumpy next five years or so, maybe even longer. You know my new thing also is verbal communication.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

Now that schools are back open and pandemic relief funds are expiring , there’s a risk this gap will quickly widen unless policymakers take a fresh look at the nation’s connectivity. And it’s one that disproportionately affects students of color and those in underserved communities.

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ED Surge

APRIL 3, 2024

Throughout this lesson, my students not only learn the content but also develop critical thinking skills as they analyze evidence, put together persuasive arguments and respectfully debate their peers. government. Consider this: In 1918, Congress passed the Sedition Act, forbidding “disloyal language” about the U.S.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 13, 2015

They tie arguments to class reading, general knowledge as well as evidence from research. For example, our 3rd graders end the year with a (heavy) discussion on worldwide governments. I get them into iCivics for simulated games on the government process. Class Debate. They take questions.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 25, 2022

That’s the argument made by scholar and author Freddie deBoer in his book, “The Cult of Smart: How Our Broken Education System Perpetuates Social Injustice.” He traces that viewpoint back to the 1983 government report, “ A Nation at Risk ,” which he says coincided with a decline in manufacturing jobs in the U.S.

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ED Surge

MARCH 5, 2024

To do that, he uses depolarization strategies, like “looping,” or having each person repeat back the other’s argument in their own words and ask whether they are hearing the other side accurately. The goal is to highlight areas of agreement rather than discord. The dialogues unfold slowly, but many are riveting.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 1, 2022

Such arguments obscure many of the real, pressing problems in education right now—a mental health crisis, workforce shortages in sectors across the field, nearly two years of lost or lackluster learning experiences.

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ED Surge

MAY 24, 2022

They have essentially a different body clock that is governing when they want to fall asleep and when they want to wake up in the morning. It sounds like the main argument against the bill was that each district should decide the issue of start times rather than have a statewide mandate, right? And he vetoed the bill.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

And Fiedler, the superintendent of the district who retired this year, isn’t swayed by the arguments against the four-day school week. But 27J Schools, the Brighton school district, is one of the largest districts in Colorado to adopt a four-day week. The district lost staff the first year it moved over to the four-day schedule.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 26, 2022

I was struck by the tight argumentation in the recent Vox essay, “ The incredible shrinking future of college ,” written by New America’s Kevin Carey. As someone who used to fight with city governments over public records, I like to imagine the Chron reporters buying antacids in bulk to deal with all the heartburn.)

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 9, 2018

They tie arguments to class reading, general knowledge as well as evidence from research. For example, our 3rd graders end the year with a (heavy) discussion on worldwide governments. They visit iCivics for simulated games on the government process. Designed for grades 3-12. Need ideas on web tools? Class Debate.

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Computing Education Research Blog

JULY 15, 2024

Here’s a sketch of the argument. Data visualizations that most of us see in our everyday lives are from opinion polls or about prices or taxes — they’re about social science topics (economics, government/civics, history, geography). We make four main points: Data literacy makes social studies more effective.

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Futurum

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Economics is the study of how people make decisions, how we choose where to study and work, how we promote fairness in society and how our lives are shaped by market institutions and government policies,” says Dr Emil Temnyalov, an economist at the University of Technology Sydney. How does economics combine mathematics and social science?

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Computing Education Research Blog

JUNE 20, 2022

A May 2022 report from the UK government Research Review Series: Computing makes some strong claims about block-based programming that I think are misleading. For those not familiar, here are two education research terms that will be useful in making my argument.

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Stephen Wolfram

JANUARY 31, 2023

But in 1798 Benjamin Thompson (Count Rumford) (1753–1814) measured the heat produced by the mechanical process of boring a cannon, and began to make the argument that, in contradiction to the caloric theory, there was actually some kind of correspondence between mechanical energy and amount of heat.

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Robert Talbert, Ph.D.

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

The whitepaper itself seems to advocate a position that schools would be more effective, and students better served, if they were more free from government involvement — more free to innovate and reform themselves, with a flipped classroom approach being the foremost example of reform.

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Futurum

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

I spent years volunteering with environmental and educational non-profit organisations and realised that being able to understand environmental policies and systems of governance was critical for protecting natural resources.

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Futurum

JUNE 21, 2022

DEFENCE – (in court) the argument that the accused person should not be found guilty. DEFENCE – (in court) the argument that the accused person should not be found guilty. PROSECUTE – to charge someone of a crime and present evidence against them in court. DEFENDANT – the accused person in a court of law.

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CTE Learning

APRIL 21, 2021

This allowed the Google team to focus on building their own custom tools, without any of the “but we’ve always done it this way” arguments. federal government over anti-competitive practices. The government argued that bundling internet explorers into Windows was just a way to dominate the market.

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Ellipsis Education

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Which is a system used within Python in the event an argument passed to a function is a string, integer or whole number, the passing is like call-by-value because you cannot change the value of the immutable objects passed to the function. Big Data is used in every field from education to government to healthcare.

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The Maker Mom

MARCH 18, 2023

When you take into account that a small portion of the population of K-12 children will not be best served by this type of virtual education model, there is a fair argument to be made for retaining traditional classrooms. Government Accountability Office, citing pre-pandemic data about online schools in relation to data post-pandemic.

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Stephen Wolfram

DECEMBER 5, 2024

And indeed one can imagine that there might be continuum equations of adaptive evolution that govern situations like the ones weve seen here. Its a variant of an argument weve used several times here. But its important to understand that its far from self evident that this is possible.

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Stephen Wolfram

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

It wasn’t clear how seriously anyone else was taking this (especially given that at the time I hadn’t seen the material Frisch had already written), but insofar as anything was “going on”, it seemed to be a perfectly collegial interaction—where perhaps Los Alamos or the French government or both would buy a Connection Machine computer.

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Stephen Wolfram

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Sometimes textbooks will gloss over everything; sometimes they’ll give some kind of “common-sense-but-outside-of-physics argument”. But there’s really just one principle that governs all these things: that whatever method we have to prepare or analyze states of a system is somehow computationally bounded. Why does the Second Law work?

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ED Surge

JULY 12, 2022

So for this week’s podcast we’re diving into his argument, talking to a philosophy professor who studied with Hussain and regularly teaches the paper to his own students. One is where health care is just guaranteed—perhaps government supplied. EdSurge: Health care is an example of where the system in the U.S.

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Stephen Wolfram

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

And just like the speed of light governs the maximum rate at which effects can propagate in physical space, so similarly in our models there’s a “ maximum entanglement speed ” at which effects can propagate in branchial space. And we can trace the argument for this to the Principle of Computational Equivalence.

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ED Surge

JUNE 13, 2023

Even the federal government is warming to the idea of employer-sponsored child care: In February, the Biden administration announced a plan that makes federal subsidies for semiconductor manufacturers contingent on companies’ commitment to providing child care assistance to employees. Workers have unequal access to child care benefits.

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Stephen Wolfram

AUGUST 22, 2023

the Vietnam War), whose idea was that it was time to stop the government fighting an unwinnable war, and this could be achieved by having an organization that would coordinate citizens to threaten a run on banks unless the war was ended. Richard Feynman and I would get into very fierce arguments. It’s just my nature. We haven’t.

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Stephen Wolfram

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Events are like functions, whose “arguments” are incoming tokens, and whose output is one or more outgoing tokens. In mathematics starting about a century ago there were various situations in which different scanning orders for discrete sets were considered—notably in connection with diagonalization arguments, space-filling curves, etc.

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Stephen Wolfram

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Events are like functions, whose “arguments” are incoming tokens, and whose output is one or more outgoing tokens. In mathematics starting about a century ago there were various situations in which different scanning orders for discrete sets were considered—notably in connection with diagonalization arguments, space-filling curves, etc.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 19, 2019

In July 2018, the French government banned cell phones from classrooms. Whatever way the argument skews, one thing is for sure: schools need to come up with policies to address this issue. It raises the question of whether enforcing this ban will have a positive effect on student’s learning or not.

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Futurum

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

What has motivated me is the change that has occurred in governments and people in the climate change space. It is inspiring to see the research mainstreamed and the arguments of “is climate changing?” An interesting academic exercise” was a common retort to my work. It was slow, but this has sped up with time.

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