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Students Think Better with Thinking Pieces: Why You Should Consider Using Low- Stakes W... - 1 views

www.ancientjewreview.com/...ting-assignments-in-your-class assignments
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  • Tressie Cottom on 03 Jan 16
     
    really interesting distinction about form and function of short papers vs. blog posts vs. "low stakes" writing assignments. 
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New Online Polling Experiment for the Post-Landline Phone Era - The New York Times - 0 views

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  • anonymous on 06 Jan 16
     
    Perhaps useful for methods discussion?

Home: DMPTool - 1 views

dmptool.org data management
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What journalists get wrong about social science, according to 20 scientists - Vox - 0 views

www.vox.com/...journalists-social-science science and research
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  • anonymous on 23 Jan 16
     
    Might be useful for intro/methods students, too.
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How Long Will Your Class Remain Yours? Academic Freedom and Control of the Classroom - ... - 0 views

www.digitalpedagogylab.com/...emic-freedom-control-classroom LMS open online education
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  • for both pedagogical reasons and in the cause of self preservation faculty should preemptively adapt useful, low or no-cost education technologies which only they can control.
  • anonymous on 26 Jan 16
     
    "for both pedagogical reasons and in the cause of self preservation faculty should preemptively adapt useful, low or no-cost education technologies which only they can control."
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Being homeless a struggle - even with a $100,000 job offer | The Seattle Times - 0 views

www.seattletimes.com/...e-even-with-a-100000-job-offer homeless
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  • Tressie Cottom on 08 Dec 15
     
    wonderful short read suitable for undergrads on race, poverty. criminalization, "bootstrap" and technocracy myth-making. Why can't this homeless man afford to accept a $100,000 year job?
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Why a poor Southern city's only hope was a Chinese company moving in | The Washington Post - 0 views

www.washingtonpost.com/...a-grim-bargain work employment
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  • anonymous on 02 Dec 15
     
    "grim bargain" of tax incentives and subsidies to attract low-wage work
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Boys and Girls, Constrained by Toys and Costumes - The New York Times - 0 views

www.nytimes.com/...ined-by-toys-and-costumes.html gender socialization
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  • anonymous on 30 Oct 15
     
    "toys are more strictly gendered today than they were 50 years ago, when adult gender roles were much more separate, according to research by Elizabeth Sweet, a sociologist at the University of California, Davis."
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The Invisible Labor of Minority Professors - The Chronicle of Higher Education.pdf - 0 views

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  • Tressie Cottom on 09 Nov 15
     
    "minority faculty" T&P
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Webinar: Teaching Educational Research Methods: Making it Real & Relevant for Stude... - 0 views

www.methodspace.com/...ch-methods-making-it-real-rele teaching methods
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  • Tressie Cottom on 09 Nov 15
     
    Join Dr. Craig A. Mertler for a webinar discussion on the challenges of teaching research methods as well as strategies for making the course relevant for stud…
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#NSMNSS: About - 1 views

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  • Tressie Cottom on 09 Nov 15
     
    "social media for research" methods
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Study links Richmond mortgage denials to race - Richmond Times-Dispatch: City Of Richmo... - 0 views

www.richmond.com/...3a-5902-83df-a14ae649eb61.html richmond race residential segregation
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  • Tressie Cottom on 19 Nov 15
     
    I track local stories now because I find my students LOVE RVA-based examples of what we discuss in class. Residential segregation is a big one of course.
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