April is Autism Awareness Month and this blog post offers some excellent reviews and reading recommendations for books about autism.
The EdLib Report
Black Students, Boys and Students with Disabilities Disproportionately Disciplined
A new GAO Report indicates that suspensions and expulsions in K-12 schools disproportionately affect black students, boys, and students with disabilities. The report indicates that over-representation of these populations suggests that educators identify disparities and address them by implementing alternatives that remove children from the classroom.
Gun Violence Archive
The mission of the Gun Violence Archive (GVA) is to offer free online public access to accurate information about gun-related violence in the U.S. This non-profit corporation formed in 2013 collects and checks for accuracy information about gun-related violence in the U.S. and then posts and disseminates it.
Papers of Benjamin Franklin Now Online
The papers of American scientist, statesman and diplomat Benjamin Franklin have been digitized and are now available online for the first time from the Library of Congress. The collection consists of about 8,000 items dating from the 1770’s and 1780’s, including items …Continue Reading
Online Students Don’t Have to Work Solo
This recent blog post by Mark Lieberman, from Inside Higher Education outlines the challenges with assigning group work in courses and the even greater challenges for online courses. The article gives some good tips and talks about best practices to make online …Continue Reading
Learning the Library
If you have new or transfer students attending your classes this summer, you can orient them to the library remotely in a number of ways. First, you can add your liaison librarian to your Canvas course where he or she can add …Continue Reading
Featured E-book: The Real School Safety Problem: Long-Term Consequences of Harsh School Punishment
Author Aaron Kupchik “provides a clear discussion in this e-book of what we know and what we don’t yet know about the school security and punishment practices and their effects on students and schools.” According to Kupchik school safety efforts, in many …Continue Reading
How Not to Spread Fake News
This op-ed from the New York Times by Michael J. Socolow, “How to Prevent Smart People from Spreading Dumb Ideas,” points out that “Too many Americans have no idea how to properly read a social media feed…regardless of educational attainment, economic class, …Continue Reading
