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Because it is gone now
Teaching the September 11 Digital Archive By Claire Potter I love you… . the building was hit by something. I don’t know if I’m gonna get out, but I love you very much. I…I hope I’ll see you later....
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5,000-year-old mummy found in Alps
This Day in World History September 19, 1991 5,000-year-old mummy found in Alps The mummified remains of Ötzi While hiking through the Alps on the Italian-Austrian border, Erika and Helmut Simon, a...
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Back to school special Part 2: Education on the rise
By Sydney Beveridge, Social Explorer With the new school year approaching, Social Explorer is taking a closer look at education data today and over the years. In this installment, we are looking at the...
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Six women, two men hanged for witchcraft
This Day in World History September 22, 1692 Six women, two men hanged in Salem, Massachusetts, for witchcraft In the fatal climax of months of turmoil, six women and two men were hanged in Salem,...
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Marking the autumnal equinox in the ancient world
This Day in World History September 23 Marking the autumnal equinox in the ancient world Sometime around September 23 each year, Earth reaches the autumnal equinox, the point when the sun stands...
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Abina and the Important Men: A Graphic History
By Trevor Getz Abina and the Important Men is an interpretation of the testimony of a young, enslaved woman who won her way to freedom in late nineteenth century West Africa and then prosecuted her...
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Seeing complexity in U.S. public education
By Donald J. Peurach Education reform is among the great American pastimes. This is activity that plays out continuously in public discourse everywhere from corner bars to capitol buildings, as well as...
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Private schools and public benefit
By Simon Baughen The charitable status of private schools raises strong passions, both for and against. Those in the ‘anti’ camp were heartened by the Charity Act 2006. Section 3(2) explicitly provided...
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Winning the interview when switching from law to business
By Jerald Jellison Despite your legal training, you’ve decided to pursue a career in business. This career change will immediately raise a red flag for business employers. Your answer can make or break...
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Understanding evolution on Darwin Day
Italian panel depicting Charles Darwin, created ca. 1890, on display at the Turin Museum of Human Anatomy. Source: Wikimedia Commons. By Karl S. Rosengren, Sarah K. Brem, E. Margaret Evans and Gale M....
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An academic librarian without a library
By Michael Levine-Clark I’m sitting in a dorm room — complete with the uncontrollable blast heat I remember from college — the space that has been my office since June, when the library shut down for a...
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Seven ways schools and parents can mishandle reports of bullying
By Maureen Duffy (1) Ignore the bullying complaints, or deny or minimize them. It’s very difficult for a child or young person to come forward with complaints of being bullied in the first place. The...
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Applications in medical education
We at OUP are no strangers to the changes in publishing and all the different forms a ‘book’ can take. One of our recent medical titles has been adapted as an iPad application (or ‘app’) — Cardiac...
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How to become a doctor in the UK
By Iqbal Kahn If you ask many people, “How long does it take to train as a doctor?”, the response would probably be five years. And many people joke that it takes longer to train as a vet than a medic!...
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Replacing ILL with temporary leases of ebooks
By Michael Levine-Clark One of the things that I love about being a librarian is that as a profession, we work together to share ideas and resources. Perhaps the most remarkable example of this...
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How to Teach a Successful Medical Class
By Peggy Mason, Ph.D. Recently the second year-medical students (Class of 2014) at the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine honored me with the L.D.H. Wood Pre-Clinical Teaching Award....
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Early intervention for children with reading difficulties
By Karen L. Schiltz, Ph.D. “My child will be starting school in two weeks. I can’t believe summer is almost over. I’m beginning to worry. Ellie still has trouble reading simple words and she does not...
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Stonewalling Progress
By Mark McCormack Leading British gay rights charity, Stonewall, have produced a new report into the extent of homophobia in British schools. Surveying 1,600 sexual minority youth, it finds that 55% of...
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The battle over homework
By Kenneth Barish For this back-to-school season, I would like to offer some advice about one of the most frequent problems presented to me in over 30 years of clinical practice: battles over...
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The Friday before school starts
By Alice M. Hammel and Ryan M. Hourigan While standing at the local superstore watching my children choose their colorful binders and pencils for the upcoming school year, I saw another family at the...
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