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Teaching equality: unconscious bias in education
Education & Development

Teaching equality: unconscious bias in education

...intelligence when entering the school system aged five. They found, that in the country’s largest Local Education Agency, Black students entered the school twenty points above the national average as the highest performing ethic group but left school as the lowest performing; twenty-one points below the national average. And I started to notice it in me. Why did I think...
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Enhancing pupil learning on museum visits
Education & Development

Enhancing pupil learning on museum visits

...intelligences, which relates each one to the relevant types of museum displays, workshops and exhibitions. It is available as a Learning styles activity. It gives details of each of the seven types of intelligence and provides examples of ways in which they all relate to museums and galleries. It's particularly interesting to try this activity as a group exercise with...
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Hip Hop, Transculturation and Ethnography in Delhi
Education & Development

Hip Hop, Transculturation and Ethnography in Delhi

...intelligence. To be hip is to be up-date and relevant. Hop is a form of movement. You can’t just observe a hop you got to hop up and do it. Hip and hop is more than music. Hip is the knowledge hop is the movement. Hip and hop is intelligent movement. Or relevant movement we sellin the music. So write this down on your blackbooks and journals.Hip hop culture is eternal....
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Article 5 mins
Can design by committee work? Making a case for open source design
Science, Maths & Technology

Can design by committee work? Making a case for open source design

...artificial constraints are harder to learn and conform to than the constraints of a programming language. While constraints and standards in technology are the mother of creativity, in design they can often feel artificial and oppressive. Beyond that, within a collaboration, when Bob tries to argue for the merits of his design, unlike in the case of Alice’s code he...
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Why has Antonin Scalia's death set off a battle for the US Supreme Court?
Society, Politics & Law

Why has Antonin Scalia's death set off a battle for the US Supreme Court?

...intelligent rhetoric and landmark opinions, and the court has lost a larger-than-life personality. His death has also prompted a fierce debate, with US presidential candidates and elected officials already at loggerheads over what happens next. [Justice Antonin Scalia Speaks with Staff at the U.S. Mission in Geneva] Justice Scalia Ordinarily the president would choose a...
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How can authorities plan for an unexpected terrorist tactic?
Society, Politics & Law

How can authorities plan for an unexpected terrorist tactic?

...intelligence and protective personnel, but they don’t install highway barriers – that is not their thing. How focused, fast and effective was the liaison between homeland security and highway authorities? The fact that the terrorist on 22 March could mow pedestrians and cyclists down across the whole length of the bridge is not reassuring. Learning lessons quickly...
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Feeling Stuck in your Job or Career? The ACT Matrix may be the Tool you Need
Health, Sports & Psychology

Feeling Stuck in your Job or Career? The ACT Matrix may be the Tool you Need

...Intelligence in a Challenging Workplace. References American Psychological Association, Presidential Task Force on Evidence-Based Practice in Psychology (2006) American Psychologist, 61(4), pp. 271–85, doi: 10.1037/0003-066X.61.4.271. Harris, R. (2006) ‘Embracing your demons: an overview of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy’, Psychotherapy in Australia, 12(4), pp....
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Can animals be courageous?
History & The Arts

Can animals be courageous?

...intelligence or charm. These traits can help us achieve our goals. But they are not, just in themselves, morally good traits: they can be put to bad ends as well as good. Alternatively, we might view courage as a moral virtue. On this view, courage can be classed with other moral virtues such as honesty, fairness, generosity or kindness. Having these moral virtues (it...
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