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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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STEM Programs: How to Choose the Right Major

STEM Education Guide

It’s an acronym that encompasses science, technology, engineering, and math. According to a report from the Pew Research Center, more than 30% of Americans said they would encourage high school students to pursue jobs in a STEM-related field. It includes topics such as chemistry, biology, physics, astronomy, and geology.

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Imaging the invisible: how can research software and imaging techniques help scientists study the things we can’t see?

Futurum

Imaging the invisible: how can research software and imaging techniques help scientists study the things we can’t see? Dr Joanna Leng , from the University of Leeds in the UK, is a research software engineer who designs and develops the software that allows scientific imaging devices to be used to their full potential. Pinterest.

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

Futurum

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. I also teach GIS and data science classes, all with a geophysical component, and conduct research in these topics.

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

Stephen Wolfram

He starts off by saying about Carnot’s book: The idea which serves as a basis of his researches seems to me to be both fertile and beyond question; his demonstrations are founded on the absurdity of the possibility of creating motive power or heat out of nothing. Experience provides on the contrary a number of irreversible phenomena.

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