Hello everyone! I am Dr Megan Hunt, Teaching Fellow in American History at the University of Edinburgh. My interests are in the African American civil rights movement, and the American South more generally, as presented in educational materials and popular culture - particularly Hollywood film. I have written on films such as Selma, The Help, Mississippi Burning, and To Kill a Mockingbird, and am currently working on a book about civil rights, race, and religion in Hollywood cinema. I have also explored how civil rights is taught in the US and the UK, and the significance of educational standards to public memory of social activism. I am happy to answer questions on the movement itself or its representation in cinema/television and schools. I will be back to answer questions at 3pm GMT.
EDIT: Thank you so much for all of your questions! And I am very sorry that I have not been able to answer them all during the AMA.
Not new to D&D but super new to 5th edition. I have been GMing since 2nd edition, fell in love with 3.5, and hated 4th so much I turned to Pathfinder. I am planning on taking on a new party. They want to play 5E, but I don't know 5E at all. I have purchased the Players and the DMG and am trying to work through them before my first game, but with work and life I'm not sure that is going to happen before we start. I will end up more of a world painter and less of a rules arbitrator which is good and bad. I'm afaid I will hang up the game stumbling over the Players or the DMG trying to figure out this new system. Does anyone have a top 10 areas I should be spending my time studying before my first game.
For example, the site of Troy was irreversibly damaged by Schliemann's excavations. Can't we say that it was better if the site had been discovered much later, perhaps denying us of the knowledge of the location of the city, but preserving it for modern archaeology?
Going back in time, when do modern experts start cringing when they learn that a site was excavated in a certain decade?
I was hired by the government to research ghostly objects people or places. AMA about my job or life on a daily basis. Male. 42yrs old.
Was walking through an area in my city where i'm guessing some people died a while back. It got me thinking, where in the world has this happened the least? Where is the least amount of historical bloodshed on the planet?
I'm assuming Antarctica is the far away least .. so excluding that.
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> A multi-national European study, looking at over 5,500 students, has found that a novel school intervention program can not only improve the mathematics scores of primary school children from disadvantaged areas, but can also lessen the achievement gap caused by socioeconomic status.
> Known as the Dynamic Approach to School Improvement, the program is based on the latest findings in educational research.
> Rather than a one-size-fits-all, top-down approach, DASI works by first assessing a school to identify the specific teaching areas that could be improved and then implementing targeted measures to improve them.
> Those in the experimental group made use of DASI for an entire school year, while those in the control groups were offered support to develop their own improvement programs.
> Pupils aged between nine and 12 at the schools were given mathematics tests at both the start of the school year and the end to assess the effect of DASI over that time.
> The researchers chose to assess mathematical ability because previous studies have shown that mathematics tends to respond better than any other subject to school improvement programs.
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