Microaggressions—subtle slights based on stereotypes about a person’s race, gender, or socioeconomic status—can be obvious and hurtful to the person receiving them, but unintended and unnoticed by the person saying them. They can contribute to a classroom environment that disengages even high-performing students. The tags below show the potential microaggressions in a teacher’s everyday comments.
Can child care workers afford child care? This chart maps the share of median preschool worker earnings required to pay for center-based child care by state.
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ official affordability threshold for child care costs is 10 percent or less of a family’s income (Office of the President 2014). Typical preschool workers’ wages are not sufficient to meet that affordability standard anywhere. The share of their earnings going to center-based infant care ranges from 17 percent in Louisiana to 66 percent in D.C., as shown in Figure E. In 32 states and D.C., it takes more than one-third of total earnings to cover infant care costs. That means that a preschool worker’s entire pay in those states from January through at least April would be consumed by infant care costs.
Four-year-old care is slightly less expensive than infant care, primarily because of the lower teacher-to-child ratios. The National Association for the Education of Young Children recommends a 1:4 staffing ratio for infants, compared with a 1:10 ratio for 4-year-olds (CCAA 2013). Even so, when it comes to 4-year-old care, in no state are typical preschool or other child care workers’ earnings sufficient to meet the HHS 10 percent affordability standard. Child care costs range from 14 percent of total earnings in Louisiana to 52 percent of earnings in D.C., as shown in Figure F. A preschool teacher in D.C. would have to devote half her annual earnings to 4-year-old care.
Think you’re raising your daughter to be a strong leader? Look more closely: You, and the people around her, may unwittingly be doing just the opposite.
Teen boys, teen girls, and, yes, even parents have biases against girls and women as leaders, new research from the Harvard Graduate School of Education and its Making Caring Common project found.
Richard Weissbourd, a Harvard psychologist who runs the Making Caring Common project, said he was “surprised by the extent of it … how gendered both the boys’ and the girls’ responses were.”
Weissbourd decided to look at bias as part of the larger goal of helping children learn to be kind. “We were concerned that biases get in the way of people caring about and respecting other people, so our initial study was just looking at biases,” he said. “And one of the striking findings that emerged was gender bias.”
Bias “can be a powerful — and invisible — barrier to teen girls’ leadership,” Weissbourd said. “Yet parents and teachers can do a great deal to stem these biases and help children manage them.” [Read the full report here.]
NR-1 aka Nerwin was the smallest submarine the United States used that had wheels to traverse the ocean floor.
NR-1 was used for espionage as well as research and salvage operations that included searching the wreckage of the Space Shuttle Challenger and the HSHS Britannic.
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Dear Lord its 2022 and apparently the best way to get my highlights and notes from a PDF I read on my kindle is to plug it inandcopy and paste them from a text file?
Not only that, ALL notes and highlights I’ve made on the device are dumped into one single .txt file and not broken out separately by document???
So if you have several books on the go at once (I’m doing research) you have to then go in and pick out/delete notes from other books as they are saved in chronological order?
I just don’t fucking understand this.
AT ALL
Under every slick surface UI is a terrible user experience for absolutely anyone who wants to do more than the bare minimum with their computing devices.
This is a false colored low magnification electron micrograph of free standing graphene foam. Graphene foam is made by growing a few layers of graphene on the surface of a porous metal foam skeleton using chemical vapour deposition technique. The metal foam skeleton is then removed by carefully dissolving it in an etching solution. Because of its unique properties, e.g. electrically conductive, highly porous, and lightweight, graphene foam has the potential to be used in numerous advanced applications including chemical sensing, energy storage, and ultra-lightweight structures. Submitted by Adrianus Indrat Aria.
Check out this fascinating video from the BBC of researchers from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine putting together a package of advice designed to help women to decide whether their baby needs a bit of extra help.
