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College ‘Deserts’ Disproportionately Deter Black and Hispanic Students from Higher Ed

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The results are particularly important at a time when more colleges are struggling to remain open , says Riley Acton, an assistant professor of economics at Miami University in Ohio and one of the researchers who worked on the new study. “If

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5 Ways Edtech Enhances Social Studies Lessons

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According to Wikipedia: “In the United States education system, social studies is the integrated study of multiple fields of social science and the humanities, including history, geography, and political science.” In MS and HS, it expands to cover science, mathematics, civics, economics, and maybe geography.

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Researchers Have Identified the Starkest Cases of School District Segregation

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This large economic and racial divide between two adjacent districts in Michigan shows that school segregation persists in the 21st century. But some district pairs revealed far higher levels of economic segregation, like Frankenmuth and Saginaw, whose poverty rates differ by about 45 percentage points. Its poverty rate is 50 percent.

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Voices at the Center: Asian American Educators Rising

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Despite hailing from vastly different geographies and circumstances, the dozens of educators we talked with shared that they often struggled in their own school communities with feeling both hyper-visible and invisible as Asian Americans. A participant at a Black Lives Matter protest in Las Vegas on May 30, 2020. on March 21, 2021.

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Social solutions for socio-economic issues

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Social solutions for socio-economic issues Published: Extreme poverty is a global issue that affects hundreds of millions of people. He hopes that this programme will help to encourage economic growth in the poverty-stricken communities of rural New England, so that the people who live there can attain a better quality of life.

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Sustainability Champions

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Through November and December, students of the 7 th grade, together with their geography teacher Renata Cvetkoski and mathematics teacher Anita imac, set out on a journey through all seventeen Sustainable Development Goals. About the authors Anita imac is a mathematics teacher and Renata Cvetkoski is a geography teacher.

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ARCGIS and CGCW1

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The government of Ontario has recently implemented curriculum changes to the grade 9 geography, creating a new course CGCW1- Exploring Canadian Geography. Strand B focuses on natural processes and physical geography, as well as the effect humans have on it (and vice versa). The new course has 5 main strands.