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Education Article :: 99 Reasons Teachers Rock
The education community has been all gloom and doom recently, with Waiting for Superman, protests with bad press, and more standards on top of foolish mandates coming down from every which way. At TeachHUB, we want to remind all you teachers that we know you rock. Here are 99 reasons to prove it! March into this collection of weather lesson plans for primary grades and you... All across the nation, school, teachers, students, libraries, and families... Experts have identified character education as the core, underlying ingredient... As a teacher, you can help your students learn to observe carefully, ask... The modifications they are ushering into the exam have been called "extensive"... 99 Reasons Teachers Rock 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6.Nearly seven out of 10 teachers (68%) cite working with kids as the reason for remaining in the profession. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 71% of teachers are women. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. 28. 29. 30. 32. 33. 34. 35. 36. 38. 39. 40. 41. 42.
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Networks, Crowds, and Markets: A Book by David Easley and Jon Kleinberg
In recent years there has been a growing public fascination with the complex "connectedness" of modern society. This connectedness is found in many incarnations: in the rapid growth of the Internet and the Web, in the ease with which global communication now takes place, and in the ability of news and information as well as epidemics and financial crises to spread around the world with surprising speed and intensity. These are phenomena that involve networks, incentives, and the aggregate behavior of groups of people; they are based on the links that connect us and the ways in which each of our decisions can have subtle consequences for the outcomes of everyone else. Networks, Crowds, and Markets combines different scientific perspectives in its approach to understanding networks and behavior. The book is based on an inter-disciplinary course that we teach at Cornell. You can download a complete pre-publication draft of Networks, Crowds, and Markets here.
