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Norma Ming

@mindmannered.bsky.social
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Co-creating and integrating evidence in practice to improve PK-20+ learning for individuals, systems, and society. Identities blend HS STEM teacher, university faculty, district administrator, cognitive scientist, education researcher. Views my own.

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Norma Ming @mindmannered.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
Not hard to imagine that the disappearing blue bars represent melting ice, while the growing red bars signify leaping flames.
Bar graph showing temperature changes in San Francisco relative to 1961-2010 averages, from 1850 to 2024, in blue for colder and red for hotter. From 2000 on, all years except one are in the red.
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Norma Ming @mindmannered.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
"Boys and girls receive similar maths scores at the start of school, but boys pull ahead of girls after just four months (see ‘Watch the mathematics gender gap emerge’). A more dramatic gap in mathematical performance emerges after 12 months of school."
Graphs showing the distribution of all girls vs. boys who started school in France in 2018 on math test results at three time points: (1) start of first year of school, (2) four months into first year, and (3) start of second year of school. 
1. Boys and girls similar on average: slightly more boys in highest and lowest percentiles
2. Boys pull ahead: more boys in higher percentiles, more girls in lower percentiles
3. Gender gap becomes more exaggerated (at highest percentiles, ~3.6k boys vs. ~2.0k girls)
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Norma Ming @mindmannered.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
As "the most precise calibrators of these protests, Erica Chenoweth & colleagues at the Crowd Counting Consortium, write... 'In Feb 2025 alone, we have already tallied over 2,085 protests... compared w 937 protests in the US in Feb 2017." @chenoweth.bsky.social wagingnonviolence.org/2025/03/resi...
Cumulative number of protests from Jan 22 to Feb 28, comparing 2025 to 2017. Total numbers start at 0 for both, increasing at about twice the rate for 2025 as for 2017.
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