Cult of Pedagogy

JUNE 8, 2025

Listen to the interview with Laurie Rabinowitz and Amy Tondreau ( transcript ) Sponsored by Alpaca and The School Me Podcast This page contains Bookshop.org links. When you make a purchase through these links, Cult of Pedagogy gets a small percentage of the sale at no extra cost to you. What’s the difference between Amazon and Bookshop.org? Over the past few decades, significant strides have been made in the field of special education to make every classroom a place where students, regardl

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 9, 2025

Misinformation is rampant and increasingly dangerous. Americans are losing trust in journalism and turning away from legacy media. Local newspapers are closing at an alarming rate, while national news organizations are capitulating to government pressure. There is a great way to address these challenges: School newspapers. Working on a student news publication teaches critical thinking, writing, research, leadership and teamwork — skills valued by colleges and employers.

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ED Surge

JUNE 4, 2025

Chronic absence, defined as missing 10 percent or more of school or about 18 school days in a year, is a national crisis. It peaked in the pandemic, when about 31 percent of students nationwide 14.7 million kids were chronically absent during the 2021-22 school year, according to data from the U.S. Department of Education. The rate dropped only slightly for the 2022-23 school year, the latest for which national figures are available, to about 28 percent.

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Economics Charter School Middle School Research 86

Sapiens

JUNE 4, 2025

An anthropologist explores how a phone call home may seem simple but carries layers of meaning for migrating nurses and their families in India. SOON AFTER I ARRIVED in Kerala in 2014, I met Alice, a widow living alone. (All names in this story are pseudonyms to protect peoples privacy.) Her daughter, a nurse, lived in Australia, and her son, who had a different profession, was in Dubai.

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Digital Promise

JUNE 4, 2025

The post Empowering Students Through Tech: How Our Student Tech Teams are Leading In-House Repairs appeared first on Digital Promise.

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Anthropology.net

JUNE 7, 2025

In paleoanthropology, the story is often written in bone. But sometimes, it's the fine details in enamel that rewrite what we think we know. A new study published in the Journal of Human Evolution 1 dives deep—microscopically deep—into pitting enamel hypoplasia (PEH) to explore a peculiar and previously underappreciated dental trait called "uniform, circular, and shallow" (UCS) enamel pitting.

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Anthropology News

JUNE 9, 2025

Bach’s Minuet cuts through the cacophony of the respiratory ward. A nurse emerges from the station, moving purposefully toward a patient’s room. This is just one moment in the sonic landscape of a hospital in suburban Osaka, Japan—a world where coughs, beeping monitors, footsteps, and countless other sounds create a complex auditory environment that medical staff must learn to navigate and interpret.

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Women's History Network

JUNE 9, 2025

We are pleased to announce the annual WHN book prize, which awards £500 for an author’s first single-authored monograph in women’s or gender history. Entries close on 15 August 2025 for books published from 1 Jan 2023 to 31 December 2024. 2023 and 2024 entries will be considered separately.

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Digital Promise

JUNE 10, 2025

Our Work Reports Blog About Popular Searches Research Digital Equity Micro-credentials Inclusive Innovation Networks & Programs League of Innovative Schools Verizon Innovative Learning Schools Our Work Reports Blog About Jobs U-GAIN Reading: Supporting a Tech-Enabled Vision for the Science of Reading June 10, 2025 | By Yenda Prado and Jeremy Roschelle Key Ideas This is the second post of a three-part series highlighting the efforts of Digital Promise’s U-GAIN Reading R&D Center (U-GAIN R

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Anthropology.net

JUNE 9, 2025

For decades, the story of Neanderthal migration into Asia has remained patchy—more shadow than shape. Fossil finds in Siberia and genomic data hinted at a major dispersal from Western to Eastern Eurasia sometime between 120,000 and 60,000 years ago. But how Neanderthals got there, what routes they took, and whether their migration was slow or swift have remained open questions.

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Marginal Revolution

JUNE 7, 2025

In my post Affordable Housing is Almost Pointless , I highlighted how point systems for awarding tax credits prioritize DEI, environmental features, energy efficiency, and other secondary goals far more than low cost. A near-comic example comes from D.C., where so-called affordable housing units now cost between $800,000 and $1.3 million dollars each !

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ED Surge

JUNE 4, 2025

As classrooms across the country become more linguistically diverse, educators face a growing challenge: ensuring that every student, regardless of English proficiency, can access learning, participate fully and feel included. Today, emergent bilingual (EB) students, also known as English learners, account for 10.6 percent of U.S. public school students more than 5.3 million nationwide up from 9.4 percent a decade ago.

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Professional Development Tradition Public School Humanities 58

Living Geography

JUNE 4, 2025

Jon Boden-Wright discusses the importance of embedding LGBTQ+ in the geography classroom to create a more inclusive, reflective, and empowering educational experience in a new GA Blog post.

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Digital Promise

JUNE 5, 2025

Our Work Reports Blog About Popular Searches Research Digital Equity Micro-credentials Inclusive Innovation Networks & Programs League of Innovative Schools Verizon Innovative Learning Schools Our Work Reports Blog About Jobs Celebrating the 2025 YouthMADE Festival Community Award Recipients June 5, 2025 | By Elyse Gainor Key Ideas The YouthMADE Festival is a global celebration of youth creativity and innovation from May 5-18.

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Leadership Humanities Research Education 72

Anthropology.net

JUNE 8, 2025

When the National Institutes of Health launched the All of Us Research Program , the idea was simple: collect DNA and health data from over a million Americans to better understand how genetic variation influences health. But a newly published analysis of over 230,000 of these genomes has laid bare just how much complexity lies behind the terms "race" and "ethnicity"—and how that complexity can shape everything from disease risk to the ethics of medical research.

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Marginal Revolution

JUNE 7, 2025

The town has amazing, quite intact walls from the 11th-14th centuries, and also three (!) of the most beautiful churches in Spain. It is only about ninety minutes from Madrid, yet I have not seen North American tourists here. This morning it struck me to see a large number of Avila children reenacting the “lucha entre los christianos y los moros” [fight between the Christians and Moors] with toy swords and costumes, some of them dressed up like Saudis in their full garb.

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ED Surge

JUNE 10, 2025

Kids aren’t as sneaky as they think they are. They do try, as Holly Distefano has seen in her middle school English language arts classes. When she poses a question to her seventh graders over her school’s learning platform and watches the live responses roll in, there are times when too many are suspiciously similar. That’s when she knows students are using an artificial intelligence tool to write an answer.

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Living Geography

JUNE 4, 2025

From Lucy Crehan's LinkedIn page: After 6 months, 70 focus groups, 149 submissions and 1432 survey responses I am thrilled to be sharing my report on the strategic curriculum review: "A Foundation for the Future: Developing Capabilities Through a Knowledge-Rich Curriculum in Northern Ireland" In this report, I set out the case for a new curriculum framework for Northern Ireland, that is: purpose-led knowledge-rich continuous and coherent specific and focused inclusive and flexible This seeks to

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Social Studies Success

JUNE 10, 2025

Year-Long Preparation For Texas teachers, preparing students for the U.S. History STAAR exam means more than covering content—it means teaching students to analyze, evaluate, and apply their knowledge in rigorous, STAAR-formatted tasks. That is why I combined forces with lead4ward to create socialstudies+. When used with fidelity, socialstudies+ offers a powerhouse combination of instructional support, content mastery, and STAAR readiness.

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Anthropology.net

JUNE 6, 2025

There are few things as quintessentially human as the act of teaching. Whether around a campfire, in a workshop, or beside a burial cairn, transmitting knowledge has been central to how societies grow, persist, and adapt. A recent study by Ivan Colagè and Francesco d’Errico takes a sweeping look at this process, offering what may be the most comprehensive timeline yet of cultural transmission in the human lineage.

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Marginal Revolution

JUNE 8, 2025

A new study has found that a thickly forested sliver of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula is the most complete ancient agricultural location in the eastern United States. The Sixty Islands archaeological site is recognized as the ancestral home of the Menominee Nation. Known to the members of the tribe as Anaem Omot (Dog’s Belly), the area is a destination of pilgrimage, where remains of the settlement date to as far back as 8,000 B.C.

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Digital Promise

JUNE 11, 2025

More than 100 community leaders gather to explore innovative solutions for strengthening education-to-workforce pathways

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Living Geography

JUNE 4, 2025

Antarctica is a place which I have always taught about, and always wanted to visit. The 2041 Schools project (referencing the date when the Antarctic Treaty will be reviewed) won a GA Gold Award at this year's Conference. These are quite rare. Check out the free resources on the website.

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Political Science Now

JUNE 4, 2025

Power in a Union: How Unexpected Group Partnerships Form By Boris Heersink , Fordham University and Matthew J. Lacombe , Case Western Reserve University While scholars have focused extensively on the consequences of partnerships between interest groups, less attention has been paid to the historical dynamics shaping when, how, and why such groups unite.

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Anthropology.net

JUNE 5, 2025

Tucked between dense woodlands and rugged rivers, Michigan's Upper Peninsula might seem an unlikely place for ancient agriculture. Yet, beneath the trees along the Menominee River, archaeologists have documented something extraordinary: a vast, millennia-old field system that challenges long-held assumptions about Indigenous subsistence, land management, and societal complexity in pre-Colonial North America.

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Marginal Revolution

JUNE 5, 2025

That is the title of my latest Free Press essay. Here is one relevant excerpt: The suburbs of Toronto are one of the world’s most neglected talent areas. Cities such as Mississauga or Brampton are now quite familiar to me, because so many Emergent Ventures winners grew up there. Virtually all of these young applicants from Ontario are either immigrants or children of immigrants.

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Edthena

JUNE 6, 2025

We’re excited to share that, thanks to your support, Observation Copilot has been honored with the SmartBrief EdTech 2025 Readers’ Choice Award , a powerful endorsement of the impact this tool is making in schools across the country. Helping principals spend more time on what matters After a 30-minute observation, principals often spend an additional hour (or more!

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All Things Pedagogical

JUNE 8, 2025

So I am back from Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences and what a wonderful 6 days it was. I have so many thoughts and concepts to process and I am sure that I will be taking the conversations I had with folk with me for many months to come. I wanted to use this blog to reflect on some of the themes and experiences over the 6 days I was there (and sorry I couldn't make it for the last day of one of the conferences I was registered for) and also an opportunity to open space for continui

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Life and Landscapes

JUNE 4, 2025

It was the 35 anniversary of this stellar art and sculpture conference in Louisville, Kentucky. A different sort of venue to set up and sell my Science, History, and Culture Books and Fiction Science Novels. But I do sell there and, more importantly, I forge many excellent connections with artists I admire and come to work with. I had Cheryl with me as my super setup expert!

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Moler's Musing

JUNE 7, 2025

I couldn’t feed a ball to save my life. That’s where it started. I was a teenager working at Ivy Hills Country Club, learning how to roll clay courts, line baselines, and scrape off the dried teneco when it got too thick. I knew how to hustle. I knew how to show up. But I didn’t know I had something to give. Enter Brett. He didn’t just teach me how to coach, he taught me how to carry myself.

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Marginal Revolution

JUNE 8, 2025

Convent San Esteban.  It is still there, you can just walk right in, though not between 2 and 4, when the guards have off.  Arguably the Salamancans were the first mature economists, and the first decent monetary theorists, as well as being critically important for the foundations of international law, natural rights, and anti-slavery arguments.  It is also difficult to find issues where they were truly bad.

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Political Science Now

JUNE 5, 2025

Zerah Lamorena is a first-year PhD student in the department of political science at UCLA, specializing in comparative politics and methodology, with minor interests in international relations. Her research lies at the intersection of political communication, gender, and the political economy of development, with a regional focus on Southeast Asia. In particular, she is interested in how social media shapes electoral outcomes and voter perceptions, especially of women candidates.

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ED Surge

JUNE 9, 2025

There was a moment in the mid-2010s when Montessori was inescapable. The century-old education philosophy, which prioritizes independence from a young age, had turned into a lifestyle brand. Blocks and other wooden activity sets were remarketed as “Montessori toys.” Parents flocked toward outdoor learning, which often involved livestock on a farm, sometimes dubbed “Montessori farms.

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The Conversation - Politics + Society

JUNE 5, 2025

Five of Detroit's mayoral candidates discuss their ideas for the future of the city. Detroit PBS Five of the nine candidates in Detroit’s mayoral contest debated on May 29, 2025, during the annual Mackinac Policy Conference. When asked about outgoing Mayor Mike Duggan’s 11-year tenure, many of the candidates praised him for skillfully steering Detroit through bankruptcy and attracting new business investment.

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Living Geography

JUNE 8, 2025

Happy 150th birthday to the Romanian Geography Society. The website gives information about the founding of the Society in 1875. Following the official linking to the royal family at an opening congress, Mr. Vice-President A.A. Cantacuzino, on behalf of the society’s members, responded: Most Exalted Lord, “When a society feels the need for a useful institution, then from all sides the desire to satisfy it manifests; the institution is born imperceptibly and develops through the cooperation of me

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Marginal Revolution

JUNE 4, 2025

Understanding differences in outcomes between social groups—such as wage gaps between men and women—remains a central challenge in social science. While researchers have long studied how observable factors contribute to these differences, traditional methods oversimplify complex variables like employment trajectories. Our work adapts recent advances in artificial intelligence—specifically, foundation models that can process rich, detailed histories—to better explain group differences.

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Political Science Now

JUNE 6, 2025

Akayla Henson (she/her/hers) is a second-year PhD student at the University of Illinois’ department of political science. Her research focuses on American politics, with particular interests in gender, representation, and race, ethnicity, and politics (REP). She is especially interested in how one’s identity shapes marginalized groups’ experiences and political behavior.

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