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The biggest indictment of our schools is not their failure to raise test scores The latest results are available from the annual Gallup poll of middle and high school students. Over 920,000 students participated last fall. Here are a couple of key charts that I made from the data: [download a larger version of this image] 30 Of The Most Popular Trends In Education by TeachThought Staff What are the most popular trends in education? What about the most popular trends in education heading into 2021 specifically? Well, that’s a tricky question. Deciding what’s ‘trending’ is an important part of digital publishing and social media interaction. Game of Thrones: The History Behind the Red Wedding Dark portents aligned to make Catelyn, Robb, and Edmure’s trip to the Frey’s castle ominous, including the endless rain and Robb’s direwolf’s jumping in his cage. Catelyn Stark mistrusts Lord Frey and frets he is leading them to a trap. But, did historical events inspire George RR Martin when he envisioned the Red Wedding? To pen the Red Wedding Martin takes a page from a real-life event in medieval Scottish history known as the Black Dinner and may also have been inspired by the Skirmish at Heworth Moor, which I’ll cover in the next blog post. The Black Dinner

Illuminating North Korea Faced with mystery, we project ourselves onto it — stretching our misapprehensions to fill the glaring gaps on the screen. For decades, North Korea has been the least illuminated of mysteries, the rare insights often stranded without context. England Arise by Juliet Barker review - 14th-century discontent The phrase “peasants’ revolt” inevitably conjures scenes of chaotic rebellion perpetrated – as the late 14th-century chronicler Thomas Walsingham put it, with fastidious disgust – by “filthy” rustics, “uncouth and sordid” serfs, and “ribalds and whores of the devil”. But historians have long ceased to talk in dismissive terms about the events of early summer 1381, when southern and eastern England erupted in violent protest against the corrupt and spendthrift government of the 14-year-old king, Richard II. Lasting a matter of weeks, the uprising was put down with uncompromising force, and in the end achieved none of its stated aims.