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How can engineering address human rights issues?

Futurum

Across Peru, thousands of people do not have access to clean water or efficient transport links. Access to water and sanitation are fundamental human rights. The ability to travel to reach educational or employment opportunities is essential for ensuring social equality. How can engineering address human rights issues?

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Our school approach in teaching sustainability

Scientix

We strive to enhance access, relevance, and opportunities for all members of our community by making the school a hub for learning. National curricula also face logistical, social, and political barriers. Another project is in process: Gender Equality, Roma girls in education.

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Eight Days A Week

The Blog of Phyz

The district has worked hard to make sure students cannot access wifi on campus. District administration truly does expect "different but equal" in-person vs. remote courses to be prepared and implemented by instructors. Addendum 3: Hybrid Cohort Logistics. Go ahead and re-read that if it didn't sink in on the first read.

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STEM Competitions & Challenges to Engage Students

STEM Sport

This article outlines the benefits and logistics of incorporating STEM competitions and challenges in the classroom. While academic preparation and STEM literacy are important, it is equally essential to create an environment where students feel they can take risks and push themselves mentally. Provide access to mentorship programs.

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Interview with Indiana’s Teacher of the Year: Sharita Ware

STEM Education Works

Being an engineering and technology teacher, what kind of STEM equipment and technology do you have access to and how do you apply it to teach STEM skills? We like to provide equal opportunities for schools, teachers, and students to get the best STEM resources they can. Ask for a sample ! It meant a lot to both of them.

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Is the Post-Pandemic Era Ripe for Rethinking High School?

ED Surge

For months, they’d been crafting plans to reframe their school’s curriculum around the United Nations sustainable development goals , 17 lofty targets that world leaders named as priorities in 2015 that include zero hunger, gender equality, and clean water and sanitation for everyone on Earth. Gender equality — SDG 5,” she said. “I

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The Making of A New Kind of Science

Stephen Wolfram

But what I thought I needed from a publisher was access to distribution channels. Still, I thought that access to distribution channels was important enough to be worth navigating this. And I went into full “hands-on CEO” mode, trying to see how to juggle logistics to make things work. The paper mill was in Glens Falls, NY.

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