Middle school students faced plenty of issues before the social, political, and economic upheavals of the past few years. At the same time,challenges to what students are allowed to read in schoolhave made some of their experiences even more marginalized than they had been. With that in mind...
Perhaps nowhere else in education is social-emotional (SEL) more crucial than in the middle school science classroom, a place where students are expected to collaborate, communicate, and participate respectfully in the practice of argumentation. For more information about SEL consider exploring the sit...
Thanks to this intelligence, Barred Rocks quickly learn that humans and other animals are generally only going to interact with them in an unpleasant way – whether that’s being picked up and snuggled, moved to a new coop with fresh pine chips, or given a shot of medicine for a respirato...
It was a rough start to the school year if you’ve been following my life in the middle of the Madness! The Little Guy clearly was struggling with expectations for behavior. I don’t know if it was the stress of school starting back up, the increased academic pressures of third grade, ...
Our family’s situation is a little odd. We live in a resort community. My husband works two hours away in Denver during the week and my son is living his high school years on the race hill. Through circumstance more than a conscious choice, I am the mostly at-home parent. When I ...
After weighting the random respondent estimates using the re-calibrated phone survey weights (see Section 3), the gap between survey data and administrative records remains substantial in all cases (10.5 percentage points or 43% of administrative coverage in Burkina Faso, 18 percentage points or 69...
Durieux1 *Correspondence: vcz2aj@uvahealth.org 1 Department of Anesthesiology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA 2 School of Data Science, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA Abstract Background: In low-middle income countries, healthcare providers...
School kids in Kunming Mandarin Chinese actually can be defined in two ways. One, in a broad sense, it is the dialect of Chinese spoken in Northern China and is often referred to as 北方话 běifānghuà in Chinese, which literally means, “northern speech.” Two, Mandarin is used to refe...
A bit about me: I served 20+ years in the U.S. Coast Guard, and then had several shorter stints like hospice, insurance, and building cell towers. I now enjoy working in online public school education as a Master Teacher. After 13 years, it’s still a fascinating profession and always...
Torturers could strap weights to the feet of their victims to increase the suffering. Getty Images Advertisement 48. Just a Little off the Top The iconic red and white barber’s pole symbolized blood and bandages as most barbers also performed double duty as surgeons and dentists. Bandages ...