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This Dana Foundation article describes how brain-scanning technology and cognitive tests on a variety of subjects by one of the world’s foremost cognitive neuroscientists have led to a better understanding of how a region of the brain responds to visual stimuli. The results could profoundly…
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Various Variables: Using Scientific Thinking to Solve Real-Life Problems is a contextualized science unit developed for a science/English language arts class at the intermediate level (GLE 4–8). It should follow a unit on the basics of the scientific method as this Various Variables unit…
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Innovations & Society (FOCUS: Second Industrial Revolution) explores the events and changes within the United States related to the inventions, technologies, and advances that transformed the growing United States from an agriculturally based economy to the industrial giant it became. The…
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World Education's EdTech Maker Space worked with Florida Literacy Coalition to compile resources to support adult learners with developing financial literacy skills. The curated resources are from Hands on Banking (Wells Fargo), Practical Money Skills (Visa), Better Money Habits (BoF), Money Smart…
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This article describes how the California correctional system is investing millions of dollars to provide thousands of secure laptops and in-house network infrastructure in order to vastly expand educational opportunities for incarcerated learners. This approach could serve as a model to…
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Reading Skills for Today's Adults (RSTA) is an online collection of leveled readings addressing various topics of interest to adult learners. Each reading has a collection of accompanying materials. The SABES ELA PD Center has created a short and long RSTA Navigation Guide and video overview to…
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"Since its founding as a discipline, Black Studies has been under relentless attack by social and political forces seeking to discredit and neutralize it. Our History Has Always Been Contraband was born out of an urgent need to respond to the latest threat: efforts to remove content from…
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Literacy Minnesota offers outstanding trainings for adult literacy volunteers and professional development courses for Adult Basic Education teachers and staff. This library of online webinars is a great complement to SABES offerings, and includes topics such as Distance and Blended Learning Basics…
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Voice of Witness is an oral history nonprofit that advances human rights by amplifying the voices of people impacted by--and fighting against--injustice. The organization produces a book series that "depicts human rights and social justice issues through the edited oral histories of people who are…
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Next Gen Personal Finance is a nonprofit dedicated to financial literacy and policy advocacy to bring financial literacy into the middle school or high school classroom, although content can easily be used with adult learners. They have excellent content on just about any topic related to financial…
