5 Ways to Know Your Career Could Benefit From Higher Education
Becky Wilcox has written that: Returning to school to in order to complete a degree or gain a higher level of education is not always an easy choice after working in the same job for a number of...
View ArticleStart Your Career With a Criminal Justice Education
Becky Wilcox writes: If you are looking to break into the field of criminal justice, you are not alone. Across the country, many students enroll in criminal justice programs, and go on to become police...
View ArticleLoan Considerations for 2012 Medical Students
Becky Wilcox writes According to the US News and World Report, the average medical school student graduates with about $145,000 in debt. At more expensive medical schools, the average debt burden...
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Assassination of the Archduke
On 28 June 1914, Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne, was shot dead in Sarajevo, by Gavrilo Princip. The spark that started the Great War. Please find a Google...
View ArticleCommon Core Standards in Math
Common Core Standards in Math In recent years, it has been noticed that there was a lack of consistency in academic curriculums from state to state. This created problems for students who moved from...
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Teaching and learning with digital resources
Why do we laugh at a joke? One of the remarkable things about laughter is that it occurs unconsciously. You don’t decide to do it. While we can consciously inhibit it, we don’t consciously produce...
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How accurate is testimony?
A few days ago I saw a story about ‘Do the Birds Still Sing in Hell?’ being made into a film (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/9627322/British-PoW-escaped-200-times-to-meet-German-lover.html) It...
View ArticleThe True Cost of Having Bad Bosses
Everyone has dealt with it, and recently there was even a comic movie put out about bad bosses. It is a phenomenon no business is immune to and all too often it goes unrecognized, and un-dealt with....
View ArticleNew Year’s Hobby Could Lead to Career
The new year brings resolutions, and many desire to learn new things. Some may dream of soaring like eagles, but realize that the next best thing is taking flying lessons. If that is your dream, you...
View ArticleEdComs Teachers Website
I have only just found out about EdComs Teachers. (http://www.edcomsteachers.com) The EdComs Teachers website offers free, high quality resources and ideas for lessons across a full range of subject...
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Remembering Survival: Inside a Nazi Slave-Labor Camp By Christopher R. Browning
I have admired Christopher Browning’s work since I read Ordinary Men : Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland, I was luck enough to be given The Origins of the Final Solution :...
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Amazing Teacher!
As schools begin another academic year, we all look forwards, but the dramatic changes imposed upon education at the moment, have, forced a great number of educators to look over their shoulders,...
View ArticleBeyond the School
As anyone who has looked at my http://thenandnow.edublogs.org/ website will know I have an interest in local History as well as using technology to explore the rich stories that surround us. I am able...
View ArticleThe University of Huddersfield presents: Aliens in the Hud
The University of Huddersfield presents: Aliens in the Hud An interesting idea, aimed at promoting the University of Huddersfield. This is much more subtle than it could be, with Professor Sir Patrick...
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Riots panel suggests school fines
I most admit, when I first saw this I thought it was a spoof article, but sadly it is not, it is a serious proposal from a group advising the government Schools which fail to teach pupils to read and...
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Captain Cook on Google Earth
Colin Hazlehurst has produced some excellent tours of James Cook exploring New Zealand and Australia using Google Earth I have been using Google Earth as an educational tool for a while now, some...
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Teachmeet – Durham
I recently attended my first Teachmeet, I am no-longer a teachmeet virgin. I have followed the idea for some time, becoming aware of it through Twitter and followed last years at the SHP Conference...
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The Great Escape
A number of Years ago the branch had Guy Walters talking to us, and ever since I have been reading his work. I present here a one off lesson idea, based on his work, looking at interpretations of ‘the...
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If only everything was as reliable as a volkswagen
I feel lucky in the fact that I have the opportunity to engage in projects which have open ended outcomes, for this gives me the flexibility to examine issues from an aspect of interest. I have never...
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Why research is worthwhile
For the Battle of Stockton campaign handout, I relied upon four original sources, all newspaper accounts; two from 1933 and two from the opening of the 21st Century, although the latter two are based...
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