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

ED Surge

Our primary guide for observing these learning environments was a book by Vanderbilt University Professor Rich Milner called Start Where You Are, But Don’t Stay There , which offers a framework of opportunity-centered teaching. We often neglect to discuss the real impacts of diverse life experiences and circumstances.

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What’s Wrong With STEM Education: How to Address the Problems

STEM Education Guide

There are social sciences and understanding the people’s needs and wants to give the masses exactly what they need at the moment. Many factors, including liberal arts, humanities, and social sciences, contribute equally to new innovative products we see and use daily.

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STEM Statistics For 2023 (Education, Diversity, Careers)

The Maker Mom

Education and outreach to girls starting in primary school have increased, as well as the number of women who receive degrees in STEM-related fields. For instance, in the social sciences, women hold an impressive 64% share of the workforce. The gaps that have formed over decades could take just as long to close.

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How can engineering address human rights issues?

Futurum

The ability to travel to reach educational or employment opportunities is essential for ensuring social equality. RESEARCH PROJECT : Investigating the correlation between access to transportation and sanitation infrastructure and social equality in Peru. I think it came from two primary sources.

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The importance of community for reducing social isolation

Futurum

Mexican women often follow their partners into the workforce to support the family income, but they also tend to have primary responsibility for children, family and the home, meaning that the time they have left to socialise and develop meaningful relationships with other women is scarce.

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Our school approach in teaching sustainability

Scientix

Our goal is to advance our students’ understanding beyond what they learned in primary school, such as recycling or reducing plastic use. Activities will be carried out to improve students’ social, emotional, analytical thinking, and creativity skills. Another project is in process: Gender Equality, Roma girls in education.

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

Futurum

The application has since been taken up by lots of agencies, including the Council for Environmental Equality at the White House. When I was younger, I always loved math and science. I began my career in the technical side of GIS, but I have been wooed to the social sciences.