ED Surge
AUGUST 11, 2025
Academia is a high-stress, high-surveillance environment. Faculty are asked to do more with less: more students, more reporting, more unpaid labor — and less time, less support, and less say in decisions that shape our work. For many of us, the job has become a constant negotiation between our values and institutional priorities. And yet, I stay. Not for the salary.
The Hechinger Report
AUGUST 11, 2025
(Note: This is the second piece in a two-part series on absenteeism in schools. Read the first part , on seven insights from researchers.) Chronic absenteeism, when students miss 10 percent or more of the school year, is 50 percent higher across the nation than before the pandemic. Researchers say it’s difficult for schools to address the problem because it is both so intense, with students missing huge chunks of the school year, and so extensive, affecting both rich and poor students and even h
Leah Cleary
AUGUST 12, 2025
Every month, I like to take a step back and give a Teacher Reality Check…because sometimes the biggest challenges in education aren’t in the classroom, they’re in the policy decisions that shape it. This time, I’m diving into the high-stakes (and often unfair) world of teacher evaluations. You might think your rating as “effective” or “ineffective” is all about your teaching, but the truth is, it might have a lot more to do with your ZIP code than your skill set.
Political Science Now
AUGUST 11, 2025
The Benjamin E. Lippincott Award is presented annually by the American Political Science Association (APSA) to recognize a work of exceptional quality by a living political theorist that is still considered significant after a time span of at least 15 years since the original date of publication. Citation from the Award Committee: A decade before the Covid-19 pandemic radically reshaped the political landscape in ways that are still unfolding, Jane Bennett’s Vibrant Matter urged us to recog
The Conversation - Politics + Society
AUGUST 7, 2025
Two-party control of U.S. politics runs contrary to the vision of the Constitution's framers. Douglas Rissing/Getty Images As dissatisfaction with the two-party system grows in the United States , the idea of an alternative, however unlikely, gains traction. Elon Musk’s recent call for an America Party may be unserious, but it speaks to something real.
ED Surge
AUGUST 12, 2025
It became a routine as familiar as going to lunch or picking up a child after school. Each day started with students logging online and listening as a teacher taught through a screen instead of at the front of a classroom. While this shift to virtual instruction during the COVID-19 pandemic eventually boomeranged back to in-person learning for most children, for some families, it’s become their new normal.
Sapiens
AUGUST 7, 2025
As Argentina’s economic crisis worsens, an anthropologist discusses the biological consequences of inadequate food—and why the country’s community kitchens need support. THE PRICE TO EAT It’s the afternoon before the deadline for this article. I’m typing into Google: “How much does it cost to eat in Argentina?” The top results link to pages about the price of dining in restaurants in Buenos Aires, the country’s capital.
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Political Science Now
AUGUST 7, 2025
Co-sponsored by Division 46: Qualitative Methods In-Person Roundtable Participants: (Chair) Busra Nur Ozguler Aktel, Georgia State University (Presenter) Austin Knuppe, Utah State University (Presenter) Narmin Butt,; University of California, San Diego (UCSD) (Presenter) Tanya Bandula-Irwin, University of Toronto (Presenter) Shivan Fazil Sabr, Boston University (Presenter) Busra Nur Ozguler Aktel, Georgia State University Session Description: Recent developments in the Middle East, including the
The Conversation - Politics + Society
AUGUST 7, 2025
The right terms can help you properly express your views about Alligator Alcatraz. Chandan Khanna/AFP via Getty Images A July 2025 CBS/YouGov poll asked Americans, “Do you approve or disapprove of the Trump administration’s program to find and deport immigrants who are in the U.S. illegally?” The respondents were divided, with 49% of Americans approving and 51% disapproving.
ED Surge
AUGUST 6, 2025
This story was published by a Voices of Change fellow. Learn more about the fellowship here. Growing up as a sci-fi geek, the promise of humanity's future among the stars was bolstered by artificial intelligence. In “Star Trek,” the ship’s omnipresent computer was a font of knowledge, advice, and could even make a cup of Earl Grey. However, in today’s society, the specter of AI is often portrayed as a villain by the media and general society, particularly when it comes to AI in the classroom.
Becoming a History Teacher
AUGUST 12, 2025
Photo by Gratisography on Pexels.com “Great teachers are born, not made” is one of the great myths of teacher training. Unfortunately, it is also a myth which makes its way into the subconscious of prospective teachers. As we prepare to begin a new academic year in initial teacher education, I know there are soon-to-be beginning teachers allowing that concern to take hold, causing them to doubt if they should be entering teacher training at all.
Teaching American History
AUGUST 12, 2025
An interview with Morgan Lane, Teacher Programs Administrator We have some exciting updates to our multi-day seminars involving the application periods, hotel room accommodations, and travel stipends. Can you give a brief description of what a TAH multi-day seminar entails for those who have never attended? Each multi-day seminar runs for three days, often from Friday evening to Sunday midday.
Political Science Now
AUGUST 6, 2025
Co-sponsored by Division 21: Conflict Processes In-Person Full Paper Panel Participants: (Chair) Francesca Parente, Christopher Newport University (Discussant) Carly Nicole Wayne, Washington University in St. Louis (Discussant) Lauren E Young, University of California, Davis Session Description: This panel brings together four papers that answer causal questions about violence and political behavior using experimental methods, including two survey experiments, one field experiment, and one lab-i
The Conversation - Politics + Society
AUGUST 10, 2025
Ghanaian special forces take part in U.S. military-led counterterrorism training near Jacqueville, Ivory Coast, on Feb. 16, 2022. AP Photo/Sylvain Cherkaoui Staff at the State Department’s Office of Countering Violent Extremism and Bureau of Conflict and Stabilization Operations , which led U.S. anti-violent extremism efforts , were laid off, the units shuttered, on July 11, 2025.
The Hechinger Report
AUGUST 11, 2025
This story is part of Hechinger’s ongoing coverage about rethinking high school. Read about high school apprenticeships in Indiana , a new diploma in Alabama that trades chemistry for carpentry, and “career education for all” in Kentucky. ELKHART, Ind. — The numbers were discouraging, and in some cases getting worse. Nearly 30 percent of Indiana’s high schoolers were chronically absent in 2022.
ShortCutsTV
AUGUST 10, 2025
It’s probably fair to say that Philip Zimbardo’s Stanford Prison Experiment (SPE) has, particularly over the last few years, attracted a great deal of critical attention – something that should, on the face of things, make it relatively easy for students to evaluate.
Anthropology.net
AUGUST 7, 2025
The Island That Time Forgot Rising from the marine depths between Borneo and the Banda Sea, the island of Sulawesi holds clues to one of the least understood chapters in the human story. Though modern humans didn’t arrive until the Holocene, archaeologists have long suspected that earlier hominins reached these shores far earlier. Now, stone tools unearthed 1 from the island’s southern interior point to an astonishing timeline: hominins were shaping tools and living on Sulawesi at le
Political Science Now
AUGUST 7, 2025
The Merze Tate – Elinor Ostrom Outstanding Book Award is presented annually by the American Political Science Association (APSA) to honor the best book on government, politics, or international affairs. Citation from the Award Committee: In Uprooted: How Post-WWII Population Transfers Remade Europe , Volha Charnysh draws on vast and varied sources of evidence to support the strikingly original hypothesis that mass migration flows of diverse populations at first pull communities apart but then
The Conversation - Politics + Society
AUGUST 8, 2025
Texas state lawmakers board a bus following a press conference at the DuPage County Democratic Party headquarters in Carol Stream, Ill., on Aug. 3, 2025. Scott Olson/Getty Images The gerrymandering drama in Texas – and beyond – has continued to unfold after Democratic state legislators fled the state. The Democrats want to prevent the Republican-controlled government from enacting a mid-decade gerrymander aimed at giving Republicans several more seats in Congress.
Marginal Revolution
AUGUST 8, 2025
Studies of income and regime type typically contrast democracies and autocracies, ignoring heterogeneity in the character of authoritarian regimes. We focus on the consequences of personalist rule, where power is concentrated in an individual or small elite. Extending the dynamic panel strategy of Acemoglu, Naidu, Restrepo, and Robinson (2019), we estimate the differential growth performance of democracies, institutionalized autocracies, and personalist autocracies.
The Hechinger Report
AUGUST 11, 2025
As the spring semester got under way in January at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, a dozen military veterans waited for their GI Bill student benefit checks to show up. Then they waited, and waited some more, until the money finally arrived — in April. By that time, three had left. Getting GI Bill benefits from the Veterans Administration, which student veterans use to pay for their tuition, textbooks and housing, already took weeks.
Anthropology.net
AUGUST 12, 2025
In a limestone cave on the Ligurian coast, archaeologists have uncovered something extraordinary: the earliest known example of intentional cranial modification in Europe. Buried during the last breaths of the Pleistocene, the elongated skull of an individual now known as AC12 shows 1 that reshaping the human head was already part of cultural life more than 12,000 years ago.
Political Science Now
AUGUST 8, 2025
The Sage/CQ Press Award is presented annually by the American Political Science Association (APSA) to honor both research-based projects and those that may involve activism that has focused on advancing social justice and addressing inequality and inequity in society. Citation from the Award Committee: This is a scholarly intervention in the literature on LGBTQI rights that is on the level of the contributions of scholars such as Barrington Moore and Theda Skocpol.
The Conversation - Politics + Society
AUGUST 6, 2025
FEMA workers help residents who lost homes in the 2025 Los Angeles wildfires apply for aid. Allen J. Schaben/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images When the head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s urban search and rescue team resigned after the deadly July 4, 2025, Texas floods, he told colleagues he was frustrated with bureaucratic hurdles that had delayed the team’s response to the disaster, acccording to media reports.
Sapiens
AUGUST 12, 2025
As all-out genocidal violence against Palestinians continues in Gaza, an anthropologist calls attention to how the Israeli state operates through quieter, bureaucratic means to displace and dispossess Palestinians living in East Jerusalem. Documents used as proof of residency by the Israeli authorities may include: -A rental contract -Electricity bills -The GPS log of a smartphone -Grocery receipts -School homework Objects that may cause bureaucratic problems for the Palestinians of Jerusalem: -
Digital Promise
AUGUST 7, 2025
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Steven V. Miller
AUGUST 10, 2025
An Eritrean soldier stands in front of a destroyed T-55A tank in 1999. This war starts in 1998 but the mutual military build-up for it arguably started in 1996. (Broń Pancerna/Flickr) This is a post I’m writing just to spam material to my blog, and also to pad material I need to prepare for my IRIII students in their quantitative methods sequence. It’s a challenge to teach them stuff that is super basic, but has a real-world application, and in the limited time I have with them.
Political Science Now
AUGUST 6, 2025
The Victoria Schuck Award is presented annually by the American Political Science Association (APSA) to honor the best book published on women and politics. Citation from the Award Committee: Cecilia Josefsson’s book, Defending the Status Quo: On Adaptive Resistance to Electoral Gender Quotas , engages the important yet under-studied subject of the strategic resistance to legislative gender quotas by party elites.
Geogramblings
AUGUST 8, 2025
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Zinn Education Project
AUGUST 12, 2025
The statue of Robert E. Lee in Richmond during a Black Lives Matter protest in June 2020. Credit: Ron Frazier via Flickr This administration is turning back the clock on advances made during the racial justice uprising that began in June 2020. Their policies are unabashedly racist. Just like the Daughters of the Confederacy, they are plastering names and images of white supremacists everywhere — erasing alternative visions of who “we” are and could become.
Anthropology.net
AUGUST 12, 2025
Perched just 1.5 kilometers from the Pacific and 6.5 kilometers from the mouth of the Huaura River, the ancient settlement of Vichama might seem like an obvious candidate for a seafood-heavy diet. Yet new isotopic analysis 1 of human remains suggests otherwise. Researchers examined the bones and teeth of 38 individuals from two distinct periods: the Early Formative-1 (1800–1500 BCE), when Vichama was rising as a center of monumental architecture, and the Late Intermediate Period (1000̵
The Conversation - Politics + Society
AUGUST 12, 2025
A person walks past a homeless encampment in the Skid Row community in Los Angeles in June 2024. Mario Tama/Getty Images Homelessness is on the rise in the United States, and in some places, it is becoming more common for the police to arrest someone for sleeping or living in a public space. In June 2024, the Supreme Court issued a ruling , Grants Pass v.
Political Science Now
AUGUST 8, 2025
In-Person Full Paper Panel Participants: (Chair) Amy G. Mazur, Washington State University (Discussant) Nermin Allam, Rutgers University (Discussant) S. Laurel Weldon, Simon Fraser University Session Description: In these challenging times for gender justice, democracy, and peace, Gender Equality Machineries (GEMs) – the state-based structures that promote the rights, status, and condition of women in their full complexity and seek to strike down gender-based inequities – play an important role
Marginal Revolution
AUGUST 11, 2025
We implement five different tests of whether grand juries, which are drawn from a representative cross-section of the public, discriminate against Black defendants when deciding to prosecute felony cases. Three tests exploit that while jurors do not directly observe defendant race, jurors do observe the “Blackness” of defendants’ names. All three tests—an audit-study-style test, a traditional outcome-based test, and a test that estimates racial bias using blinded/unblinded comparisons after purg
The Hechinger Report
AUGUST 6, 2025
Selina Likely, a child care director in Columbus, Ohio, understands the desperation that parents feel when they can’t find a good placement for their children with disabilities. When Likely’s daughter was a child, the little girl was abruptly kicked out of her daycare center for biting, leaving her mother with little recourse. “I was so angry and mad at the time,” said Likely, whose daughter is now an adult.
Living Geography
AUGUST 7, 2025
A New York Times report looks at how the set of 'Sesame Street' has changed over the years to reflect other changes in urban geographies including cities like New York. There has been some gentrification and improvements. The classic NY 'brownstones' appear of course, and there are changes in other small details too. Jane Jacobs is referenced in the piece.
The Conversation - Politics + Society
AUGUST 7, 2025
Palestinians crowd to get food in Gaza City on July 30, 2025. Abdalhkem Abu Riash/Anadolu via Getty Images Since World War II, the United States has repeatedly supported governments that have been committing mass atrocities, which are defined by genocide scholar Scott Straus as “large-scale, systematic violence against civilian populations.” This includes U.S. support for Israel, which has remained consistent despite President Donald Trump’s recent disagreement with Prime Minister Benjamin Netan
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