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How teens navigate a networked world and how adults can support them. What are teens actually doing on their smartphones? Contrary to many adults’ assumptions, they are not simply “addicted” to their screens, oblivious to the afterlife of what they post, or missing out on personal connection. They are just trying to navigate a networked world. In Behind Their Screens, Emily Weinstein and Carrie James, Harvard researchers who are experts on teens and technology, explore the complexities that teens face in their digital lives, and suggest that many adult efforts to help—“Get off your phone!” “Just don’t sext!”—fall short. Weinstein and James warn against a single-minded foc...
Once the most popular form of Spanish entertainment short of the bullfight, the zarzuela boasts a long history of bridging the categories of classical and popular art. It is neither opera nor serious drama, yet it requires both trained singers and good actors. The content is neither purely folkloric nor high art; it is too popular for some and too classical for others. In Zarzuela, Janet L. Sturman assesses the political as well as the musical significance of this chameleon of music-drama. Sturman traces the zarzuela's colorful history from its seventeenth-century origins as a Spanish court entertainment to its adaptation in Spain's colonial outposts in the New World. She examines Cuba's piv...
En línea con los resultados anteriores del programa PISA, la edición de 2015 evidencia que uno de los principales problemas del sistema educativo español es que casi el 20% del alumnado se sitúa en los dos niveles inferiores de desempeño, y sólo 5% del alumnado consigue alcanzar los niveles más altos de competencia en la materia de ciencias. En relación a estos datos, el objetivo de este trabajo es doble. En primer lugar, caracterizar los grupos extremos de rendimiento en ciencias en el alumnado evaluado en PISA 2015. En segundo lugar, identificar las variables que tienen un impacto significativo en el desempeño de estos grupos a fin de generar información que permita intervencione...
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Guía que se realiza para dar cumplimiento a la Ley 11/83 de Reforma Universitaria y Decretos que la desarrollan.