| By Gale Staff | Seventy-five years ago this week, two of the world’s most populous countries, India and Pakistan, gained their independence. The entire Indian subcontinent had been under the colonial rule of Great Britain since the mid-nineteenth century, and Britain finally acceded to India’s and Pakistan’s independence on August 15, 1947 (although Pakistan … Read more
| By Gale Staff | Gale Academic OneFile ACR Open Rheumatology (John Wiley & Sons, Inc.) Peer-reviewed Advanced Photonics Research (John Wiley & Sons, Inc.) Peer-reviewed Advanced Science (John Wiley & Sons, Inc.) Peer-reviewed Air & Space Power History (Air Force Historical Foundation) Peer-reviewed Alzheimer’s & Dementia: Diagnosis, Assessment & Disease Monitoring (John Wiley & … Read more
| By Josephine Campbell | This has been the summer of marches—and not just the variety played on the sousaphone. U.S. Supreme Court decisions; contentious primary elections; and ongoing concerns about the environment, inequality, school violence, and human rights, among many other issues, have prompted people around the world to paint slogans on signs, put … Read more
| By Gale Staff | If you gave every educator in your school or district 10 minutes to create a wish list of things that would make their lives easier, what would be on that list? Classroom supplies, more prep time, the most up-to-date technology, the ability to be in more places at once? Probably … Read more
| By Carol Brennan | Welcome to August! If we had to rank the months of the calendar, would August be at No. 1? It has 31 sun-filled, hot-weather days, but there’s always that late-month crisp snap in the air at dusk that hints at the coming autumn. With school kids on break and many … Read more
| By Gale Staff | The following content has been added to the Gale Presents: Peterson’s Test Prep and Gale Presents: Peterson’s Test and Career Prep products: New Tests Available Teaching Praxis 5245 Chemistry: Content Knowledge Praxis 5235 Biology: Content Knowledge Praxis World and U.S. History: Content Knowledge (5941) FTCE – Mathematics 6-12 Journeyman Electrician … Read more
| By K. Lee Lerner | Students are engaged when they write about topics in the news that affect them and their families. Yet, for the past two years, no topic has loomed larger in anyone’s lives than the virus SARS-CoV-2 and the global COVID-19 pandemic caused by the virus. From its many variants, including … Read more
| By Gale Staff | Gale Academic OneFile Acta Biologica Sibirica (Pensoft Publishers) Peer-reviewed Annales mathématiques du Québec (Springer) Peer-reviewed Brazilian Journal of Botany (Springer) Peer-reviewed Bulgarian Cardiology (Pensoft Publishers) Peer-reviewed Bulletin of the Iranian Mathematical Society (Springer) Peer-reviewed Digital Experiences in Mathematics Education (Springer) Peer-reviewed Digital Society (Springer) Peer-reviewed Environmental Processes (Springer) Peer-reviewed European … Read more
| By Gale Staff | “It ought to concern every person, because it is a debasement of our common humanity. It ought to concern every community, because it tears at our social fabric. It ought to concern every business, because it distorts markets. It ought to concern every nation, because it endangers public health and … Read more
| By Carol Brennan | July is Park and Recreation Month in the United States, a chance to celebrate our much-loved public spaces. City and suburban parks provide a vital sense of community and remind us of the awe-inspiring beauty of our natural world. We went deep into the Gale In Context: Biography archives to … Read more