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

Futurum

Social characteristics include population demographics, such as age, race, languages spoken and level of education. 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.

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

Stephen Wolfram

Sadi Carnot was born in 1796, and was largely educated by his father until he went to college in 1812. Sadi Carnot was by that point a well-educated but professionally undistinguished French military engineer. This is therefore not a fact peculiar to astronomy; reversibility is a necessary consequence of all mechanistic hypotheses.

Energy 88