With the study of Humanities coming under fire, a leading academic rises to the subject’s defense.
A rising number of parents, legislators and administrators are pushing , chair of the board of the American Council of Learned Sciences and philosophy professor at Princeton University, contends that we need the Humanities now more than ever.
- contemplate our purpose
- understand where we should focus our attention, often difficult in the mountain of information offered in this digital age
- develop an understanding of what it means to be free, and
- learn from our past, so we don’t repeat mistakes in the present.
Although the Humanities are best studied in a formal education setting, Appiah says the subjects benefit everyone, and avoiding them is a mistake. As growing adults, students should engage in the arts of their time read a novel, watch a movie, anything. By participating in the culture, students can understand where they fit into human heritage.
In other words, people who study the humanities prepare to live their lives, not their work.
HOUGHTON — Each year Michigan Tech’s Summer Youth Programs help hundreds of kids explore different technological interests.
Before the main session gets started, Tech is hosting a special week geared towards women in engineering.
Dozens of girls are getting hands on experience in the lab and hearing from female leaders in the field. All of the participants get to choose their afternoon projects, which include blacksmithing and audio experiments.
“We’re learning how to make 3D casts. Yesterday they printed our names on a nameplate, and right now we’re putting them in a sand cast so we can fill them with metal and we’ll paint them later,” said senior Morgan Erickson.
The Women in Engineering week is one of three scholarship programs offered through the Summer Youth Programs.
The regular session allows students to stay for multiple weeks at a time and study many more fields.
MIAMI—The achievement gap between Hispanic and white students is the same as it was in the early 1990s, despite two decades of accountability reforms, according to data released by the U.S. Department of Education on Thursday.
Performance on the National Assessment of Educational Progress shows the gap narrowed by three points in fourth- and eighth-grade reading since 2003, a reduction researchers said was statistically significant. But the overall difference between them remains more than 20 points, or roughly two grade levels.
“Hispanic students are the largest minority group in our nation’s schools. But they face grave educational challenges that are hindering their ability to pursue the American dream,” Education Secretary Arne Duncan said.
The data comes as Congress struggles to reform No Child Left Behind, the broad, encompassing act President George W. Bush signed into law in 2002. The law put a renewed focus on minority students, requiring states to develop tests that would show how well they and other students were performing.
Data previously released on black students shows while significant gains have been made over the last two decades, the gap with white students remains wide. <
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After Effects compositions can quickly become difficult to manage. The more layers you have, the more layers you need to keep track of, position, and keyframe. This becomes an issue particularly when the client has changes to your carefully crafted animation.
One solution is to take advantage of parenting, which is the ability to link together multiple layers inside the same composition. In this short-yet-deep project-oriented course, Chris Meyer demonstrates how to set up a parenting chain, explains what does and does not get passed from parent to child, and discusses what makes a good parent . Along the way, Chris spends considerable time showing how you would use Parenting in real-world situations, including creating finished animations employing techniques youve learned in previous After Effects Apprentice courses such as using the Graph Editor; being aware of safe areas; creating a custom text animation from scratch; and timing animations to music.
This video course is the first one that breaks pattern from the corresponding chapter in Chris and Trish Meyers After Effects Apprentice book. P
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