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• Teaching with Primary Sources

  

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  Eight Ways to Teach With Primary Sources (Opinion)

  edweek.org - Larry Ferlazzo

  (This is the first post in a two-part series.) The new question-of-the-week is: What are good ways to have students learn about—and use—primary sources? …

• Turning Point in the Natural World

  

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  Key moment in human history reveals our effect on the natural world

  Inverse - Tara Yarlagadda

  "Peat is an important natural archive." Mother Nature remembers everything. Her records display the full scope of history, as far back as when …

• GOOGLE Search Tips

  

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  21 Google Search Tips You'll Want to Learn

  PCMag - Jason Cohen

  Most of us use Google every day, but many have likely only scratched the surface of the search engine's power. Here's how to get better results from …

• Want Better Readers? Teach Social Studies!

  

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  Want Kids To Be Better Readers? Teach Social Studies

  Forbes - Natalie Wexler

  More time on social studies in elementary school boosts reading scores—but more time on reading doesn’t. Here’s why that counter-intuitive finding makes sense. Elementary schools spend more time on reading than any other subject. According to a new report from the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, …

• Why Does the Left Hate Humanities? https://www.nationalreview.com/2020/09/higher-education-why-left-hates-humanties/

  

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  Sep 19, 2020
• Plato’s Legacy

  

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  Why Are We Still Talking About Plato 2,100 Years Later?

  howstuffworks.com - Dave Roos

  All of Western philosophy, wrote the British mathematician and philosopher Alfred North Whitehead, is "a series of footnotes to Plato." The ingenious …