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To Serve All of Our Students, 'We Have to Do Something Different'

ED Surge

Our primary guide for observing these learning environments was a book by Vanderbilt University Professor Rich Milner called Start Where You Are, But Don’t Stay There , which offers a framework of opportunity-centered teaching.

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The power of geographic information systems: bringing data to life with maps

Futurum

When I was younger, I always loved math and science. I was especially interested in meteorology and astronomy – I love everything to do with the sky and weather. I began my career in the technical side of GIS, but I have been wooed to the social sciences. At school, I gravitated towards the social sciences.

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How Did We Get Here? The Tangled History of the Second Law of Thermodynamics

Stephen Wolfram

This is therefore not a fact peculiar to astronomy; reversibility is a necessary consequence of all mechanistic hypotheses. Note Almost all of what I say here is based on my reading of primary literature, assisted by modern tools and by my latest understanding of the Second Law.

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