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

ED Surge

Through my work as director of MIT’s Teaching Systems Lab , I’ve asked the question to teachers, school leaders, coaches, researchers and experts of all stripes (think: learning science, instruction, teacher education, culturally responsive teaching and so on), and it typically elicits more pauses and wonderings than answers.

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Computing the Eclipse: Astronomy in the Wolfram Language

Stephen Wolfram

Here’s the astro position of the Sun (in local horizon coordinates) at the time and place of maximum eclipse: And here now is the almost-exactly-equal result for the Moon: What will it actually look like in the sky? I was 6 years old (almost 7), walking the couple of blocks to school (yes, on my own, which kids in England in those days did).

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Spring STEM Guide

How to STEM

It’s all about celebrating women’s achievements, raising awareness against bias and taking action for equality. How to get involved… Find school resources on the International Women’s Day website Read books celebrating women in STEM. billion people living without access to safe water.

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Leading Through Innovation: Celebrating Black STEM Leaders

STEM Education Guide

schools today strive to diversify their curricula year-round, the month of February provides a targeted opportunity to look more deeply at Black heroes, past and present. Carver’s work supporting local agriculture arose from the perfect blend of real-life experience in farm work and management, as well as years of focused schooling.

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What can stars reveal about galaxies and what can cultures reveal about stars?

Futurum

LIGHT-YEAR – the distance travelled by light in one year (equal to ~9,000,000,000,000 km). Imagine you want to take a photo of your school. Would this be practical if your school was as big as the Milky Way? PROFESSOR RAJA GUHATHAKURTA Professor of Astronomy and Astrophysics University of California Santa Cruz, USA. .

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

Futurum

Talk like a geographic information systems expert Cartography — map making Environmental justice — ensuring equitable access to the environment for all people. The application has since been taken up by lots of agencies, including the Council for Environmental Equality at the White House. I didn’t enjoy my time at high school.

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Transforming Adult Students into Scholars

ED Surge

Each of them has already earned at least 45 college credits—equal to about three semesters—and desires to complete a degree. At the all-girls boarding high school that Ruth Cady attended in a small Virginia town, she recalls being a middling student. Then, between working and caring for her baby, Ruth Cady got too busy for school.

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