The Hechinger Report
MAY 19, 2025
Tech evangelists may be dazzled by the promise of AI, but two well-designed new studies one in China and one by a leading AI company signal trouble ahead. The two studies were conducted by a team of international researchers who studied how Chinese students were using ChatGPT to help with English writing, and by researchers at Anthropic, the company behind the AI chatbot Claude.
ED Surge
MAY 21, 2025
As the education world grapples with a post-pandemic academic recovery that has stalled in some regions , a new research paper is taking the measure of key players in students success: their teachers. Parsing education data into snack-sized servings. Researchers are looking at whether teachers have what they need to thrive in Teaching for Tomorrow: Educators on the Future of Their Profession, part of a multiyear study undertaken by Gallup and the Walton Family Foundation.
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TeachThought
MAY 18, 2025
In a digital classroom, teachers can become worried that no real learning is happening or that theyve somehow failed to plan sufficiently.
Thrive in Grade Five
MAY 18, 2025
Your students (and you) have worked hard all year… Now it’s time to think about your Social Studies End-of-the-Year Awards ! For years and years, I handed out generic “Star Student” or “Best Handwriting” awards at the end of the school year. But then I thought, “Why not integrate historical individuals and concepts into my end-of-the-year awards?
Anthropology.net
MAY 21, 2025
What makes Homo sapiens tall and metabolically demanding compared to our primate cousins? Scientists have long attributed these traits to changes in diet, lifestyle, and brain size, but recent work 1 suggests a deeper molecular story—one that begins with a single mutation, likely more than half a million years old. A Mutation in the Mitochondria's Metabolic Machinery In a study published in Cell Genomics , researchers identified a regulatory genetic variant known as rs34590044-A that appea
TeachThought
MAY 18, 2025
In this talk, she underscores the need for scalable, stigma-free digital platforms that can teach, support, and connect young people dealing with mental health challenges.
Moler's Musing
MAY 21, 2025
This year was tough. No sugarcoating it. I dont know if it was being new at a school, trying to make the best out of a textbook that felt like a brick, or being told to follow it even when I knew it wasnt right for the students. Structure? Absolutely. But textbook structure? Not it. The chapters were overloaded, the pacing felt artificial, and truth be told the cognitive load was off the charts.
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Sapiens
MAY 20, 2025
As the influx of processed foods threatens traditional diets in rural Mexico, an intergenerational community is forming to keep people healthy. Milpa is an ancestral way of farming in Mexico and other regions of Mesoamerica that involves growing an assortment of different crops in a single area without synthetic pesticides and fertilizers. This provides people in the region with a wide variety of foods and a balance of nutrients.
Geogramblings
MAY 20, 2025
Today, 20th May 2025, marks the UKs Earth Overshoot Day the date when, if everyone on the planet lived like the average person in the UK, we would have used up our share of the Earths renewable resources for the entire year. From this point forward, were living in ecological debt. In our latest Espresso & Geography #CoffeeGeogPod podcast short, I was joined by the ever-thoughtful Dave Wynn climate advocate, stereo-photographer, harpist, and someone who always brings clarity and compassion to
Anthropology.net
MAY 22, 2025
In 2008, in the remote reaches of Siberia, archaeologists retrieved a sliver of bone from Denisova Cave—a pinky finger no larger than a child's marble. No one could have predicted that this modest fragment would launch a redefinition of the human family tree. It wasn't the shape of the finger that caught scientists off guard. It was the DNA. A replica of an ancient finger bone found in Denisova Cave.
Social Studies Success
MAY 21, 2025
We know students are struggling reading informational text… and the issue seems to be expanding! Literacy is so important to our students, both for success in your course and for success in life. Using the same reading strategies unit after unit can be boring. Are you looking for a different way to engage students during reading? Try a visual summary.
ED Surge
MAY 21, 2025
Career and Technical Education (CTE) is at a turning point. What once lived on the margins of academic planning is now front and center in national conversations around workforce development, education equity and student well-being. As a former CTE educator and now working on CTE at Pearson , Ive watched this evolution up close. Districts arent just experimenting with a few technology or agriculture pathways anymore; theyre building entire CTE-focused programs and schools, designing curricula al
Living Geography
MAY 18, 2025
If ever youre in need as I was may you have an island of strangers like I had. Keir Starmer recently made a speech on migration which include several unfortunate similarities to the policies of a party I won't mention. We need migrants, and many of those currently waiting to have their applications processed possess the skills we are short of. One particularly crass remark was that we faced becoming an 'island of strangers'.
Anthropology News
MAY 23, 2025
I look from my bed up at the fox painting she painted, wondering what she was thinking while painting it. Blue and white stripes, brown and black stripes. It has always been there, haunting me. The fox. It has always been there, like her. I think about her a lot, which makes me wonder if she does, too. Some people think of ghosts as floating creatures and some don’t even believe in them but for me, a ghost is a person.
Anthropology.net
MAY 23, 2025
At first glance, the ceramic burners dug from Iron Age homes in northwest Arabia might seem mundane—cracked bowls of fired clay, their soot-blackened interiors whispering of fire long extinguished. But inside their walls lay something far more enduring than ash: the faint, molecular traces of Peganum harmala , or Syrian rue, a psychoactive and medicinal plant still used across the region today.
Political Science Now
MAY 23, 2025
Estimating Disenfranchisement in US Elections, 18701970 By Thomas R. Gray , University of Texas at Dallas and Jeffery A. Jenkins , University of Southern California While it is commonly understood that the poll tax and literacy tests, among other measures, were used effectively in the South to disenfranchise Black voters from the late nineteenth through the mid-twentieth century, what is not well known is how much those disenfranchising laws mattered.
Dr. Shannon Doak
MAY 19, 2025
Last weekend, I had the honor of giving the keynote address at the AI in Action conference, hosted by International Education Services and the IB in Shanghai. The session was titled Unlocking AIs Potential to Support Teaching, Learning, and Operations, and it focused on whats possible when educators start treating AI as a thought partnernot just a tool, but something we collaborate with to improve how we work, teach, and learn.
Zinn Education Project
MAY 23, 2025
More than 150 local actions confirmed to date and more are joining the growing chorus of voices to #TeachTruth WASHINGTON, D.C. The Zinn Education Project, in conjunction with more than 80 prominent racial and social justice organizations , will hold a national press call on Tuesday, June 3, 2025, to discuss the growing chorus of diverse voices speaking out against the state and federal attack on students freedom to learn and educators freedom to teach.
Living Geography
MAY 21, 2025
The Royal Meteorological Society has worked to produce a Curriculum for Climate Literacy. It has worked with a range of organisations including the Royal Geographical Society and the Geographical Association. From the website: The Core Principles of the Curriculum for Climate Literacy: All students should leave school with the necessary climate literacy required to thrive as citizens of a world where the climate is changing, irrespective of their subject choices.
The Hechinger Report
MAY 20, 2025
RAVALLI COUNTY, Mont. After years of putting it off, Montanas Florence-Carlton school district had to decide: Would it join the many smaller districts in the state with a four-day school week, or stick with a five-day schedule? Until recently, some local education leaders thought the four-day week was a poor fit for the town of Florence. Staffing problems, including having to cut nine employees,the end of pandemic-era education funding, and the loss of 50 students this school year, however, put
Political Science Now
MAY 19, 2025
Anti-Black Political Violence and the Historical Legacy of the Great Replacement Conspiracy By Andrew Ifedapo Thompson , University of Pennsylvania , Maxwell Beveridge , University of Pennsylvania , Stefan McCabe , George Washington University , Molly Ahern , George Washington University , Fryda Cortes , George Washington University , Noah Axford , Columbia University , and Jacqueline Martinez Franks , George Washington University Racial violence is central to the American polity.
All Things Pedagogical
MAY 22, 2025
I was tempted to just go to bed at 7 tonight because the weather has been cold rainy and miserable lately and I have been feeling equally miserable about the state of things I am seeing in Higher Ed lately. But I decided instead to write a bit of a blog post for this week since these thoughts have been running around my head as I have watched my friends, peers, colleagues, and myself be harmed by this thing that tends to happen in academic communication around institutions and conferences and th
ShortCutsTV
MAY 21, 2025
The belated follow-up to the best-selling Psychology Transition Materials arrives better late than never just-in-time to provide students with lots of lovely Summer Work to stop them wasting their time relaxing, watching That Was Rude TikTok movies or curating their Doesnt Know It Yet Instagram feeds (as Im reliably informed the Kids do nowadays when […]
Living Geography
MAY 18, 2025
I'm a fan of Robbie Cumming's 'slow TV' series which follows his life on the 'Naughty Lass' as he makes his way around the UK's river and canal network. He's been living on his boat for 10 years. It's a mixture of biography / history / social commentary and some geography along the way as he makes his journeys. In many places, the canals are not obvious as they weave their way through cities or behind warehouses.
Anthroholic
MAY 19, 2025
Jean Baptiste Lamarck was a visionary naturalist whose bold ideas about evolution laid the groundwork for one of sciences most transformative fields.
Political Science Now
MAY 21, 2025
Democratic Innovation and Representative Democracy By Mark E. Warren , University of British Columbia We live in a period of hopes and fears for democracy. The fears, however, are now foremost in our minds. Democratic erosion is now taking the perverse form in which institutions long associated with democracy, especially competitive elections, have become vehicles for authoritarian populists to undermine other institutions necessary to democracy, including rights and the rule of law.
O-Level Geography
MAY 24, 2025
Where are the areas which the forests are cleared? When are the development planned? Why was the forests cleared? How will this affect the terrestrial ecosystem? [link] How does the reclamation at Woodland affect the mangrove forests?
Living Geography
MAY 19, 2025
This latest Pelagic Guide to The Fens and its nature is a thing of beauty. It's written by Duncan Poyser and Simon Stirrup. It has a wealth of detail on the formation of the Fens and the different ecosystems that are found there today, as well as the threats to its future, and how it is already changing - having changed several times in the past. Description of the book: Beneath their huge and spectacular skies, the Fenlands of East Anglia are in dynamic flux.
Anthroholic
MAY 19, 2025
Julian Steward didnt set out to rewrite anthropology, but his ideas would transform the field forever. Best known as the founder of cultural ecology, Steward developed a groundbreaking approach to understanding how human societies adapt to their environments.
Political Science Now
MAY 20, 2025
Deepening or Endangering Democracy: Demonstrations and Institutions under Representative Government By Robert M. Fishman , Madrid’s Carlos III University Do demonstrations tend to deepen or endanger democracy? I examine this theme of major debate between scholars and among political actors, analyzing how the United States and other democracies have dealt withand been shaped bypopular pressure on representative institutions.
Life and Landscapes
MAY 21, 2025
I think that geography is the universal language of our inherited knowledge. Patterns and colors defining our passage through existence. And Kentucky is loaded with ancient diverse niches. So I use maps to understand their locations! Just click the link or picture below! The Life and Landscapes Blog Site is at: www.vanstockum.blog/lookin Also find me at: www.facebook.com/reggievanstockum www.instagram.com/reggievanstockum www.vimeo.com/reggievanstockum www.youtube.com @reggievanstockum1097 www.t
Steven V. Miller
MAY 18, 2025
Who's to say the separation doesn't play out like the end of this movie, but. The current moment has led to a spate of enthusiasm in the Western world, outside the United States, to wean itself off American products in favor of European (or Canadian) alternatives. The underlying rationale for why this movement emerged is tragic. The weight of the moment and the movement its generated is heavier than any individual-level consumption decision, and its more than silly, simple jingoism that motivate
Living Geography
MAY 18, 2025
Jonathon Porritt is speaking at an event at Norwich School for the RGS Eastern region. Jonathons view is that we now face an inflection point, ecologically, politically and economically, with some very turbulent times ahead. The current focus of his work is on intergenerational justice, supporting young people in their activities addressing the twin crises of the climate and biodiversity emergencies.
Anthroholic
MAY 18, 2025
H.D Sankalia was born on December 10, 1908, in Bombay (now Mumbai), during British colonial rule. He hailed from a Gujarati family and received his early education in Bombay.
Political Science Now
MAY 21, 2025
APSA is pleased to announce the members of the 2025-2026 Class of the APSA-Sponsored Congressional Fellows! The American Political Science Association (APSA) Congressional Fellowship Program is a highly selective, nonpartisan program devoted to expanding knowledge and awareness of Congress. Since 1953, it has brought select political scientists, journalists, federal employees, health specialists, and other professionals to Capitol Hill to experience Congress at work through fellowship placements
Life and Landscapes
MAY 24, 2025
Rocking the Mojave Desert National Preserve with Cheryl just southwest of Las Vegas, Nevada. We are hiking the Ring Trail and climbing up through Banshee Canyon, Just click the link or picture below to join us! The Life and Landscapes Blog Site is at: www.vanstockum.blog/lookin Also find me at: www.facebook.com/reggievanstockum www.instagram.com/reggievanstockum www.vimeo.com/reggievanstockum www.youtube.com @reggievanstockum1097 www.tiktok.com/@reggiesrealm Threads @reggievanstockum Bluesky @re
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