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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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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ED Surge

JUNE 3, 2025

Social media platforms like Instagram, X and TikTok have become landscapes for learning and increasing awareness of topics like mental health. But for children who are learning how to navigate virtual spaces, the pitfalls are many and hidden. Educators and researchers are becoming increasingly worried how much kids are absorbing the digital information they find online about mental health, which kids are unlikely to fully grasp even if the information is trustworthy.

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Ben Newmark

JUNE 2, 2025

A few years ago, in the Golden Era of Edu-Twitter, Berny Andrews and I suggested the Department of Education needed a team of philosophers. We were only half joking. Very often the success or failure of educational strategy and policy is not in technical formulation or implementation but in purpose, and purpose is always about belief and philosophy.

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Digital Promise

JUNE 3, 2025

The post 3 Strategies for Creating Collaborative Experiences that Engage Students appeared first on Digital Promise.

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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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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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Archiving Anthropology Humanities History 76

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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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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Anthropology.net

JUNE 3, 2025

The Case for Smoke Before Supper For decades, archaeologists have debated the moment our ancestors learned to tame fire—and more importantly, why they did so. Cooking, the story often goes, sparked the evolution of Homo erectus by softening food, improving digestion, and freeing energy for bigger brains. But a new hypothesis is challenging that assumption with a cooler, smokier narrative: fire may have been kindled not for cooking, but for keeping meat safe.

Humanities 52

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ED Surge

JUNE 2, 2025

The number of home-based child care programs is seeing a spike for the first time in five years but experts remain concerned that with a rising child care crisis, there are still not enough programs to meet demand. According to a report from Child Care Aware of America, the number of licensed home-based child care options increased by nearly 5 percent from 2023 to 2024.

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Edthena

JUNE 3, 2025

Results from the 2024 National Assessment of Educational Progress show a troubling trend: less than 33 percent of fourth- and eighth-graders tested demonstrated reading proficiency. Even before the pandemic, reading performance was low. Now, those challenges have grown, driving schools to search for targeted interventions and methods to improve literacy instruction.

Professional Development 52

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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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Dangerously Irrelevant

JUNE 3, 2025

[ I realized that I am way behind on posting recent podcast episodes, so this week I am catching up! ] Krista Leh was kind enough to invite me on her SEL in EDU podcast back in February. Krista is a widely-acclaimed expert on social-emotional learning (SEL) who is doing really great work with schools and educators (she also has an ed tech background!).

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Anthropology.net

JUNE 2, 2025

For years, the story of human evolution in southern Africa has been largely written from its caves. Rock shelters, with their stable conditions and stratified sediments, have preserved a rich archaeological record. But they represent only a narrow view. Outside the cool embrace of stone overhangs lie thousands of open-air sites, scattered across eroded plains, riverbanks, and dunes—sites that are far more difficult to study, but no less crucial for understanding how early Homo sapiens live

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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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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 9, 2025

When I was covering education research in the Before Times, I rarely worried about following the latest news. But the Trump administration has upended my beat. Last week was one of the busiest I’ve had in my 14 years at The Hechinger Report. Some highlights: a bewildering email, contradictory court rulings and a missed deadline. For details, read on.

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Women's History Network

JUNE 2, 2025

When researching diplomatic challenges in early nineteenth century Europe, such as the Eastern Question or the Congress of Vienna, the subject matter can appear male dominated. The former refers to the disintegration of the Ottoman Empire in the 19th century, and the latter to the peace-making efforts at the end of Napoleons reign over Europe.

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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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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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ED Surge

JUNE 2, 2025

On a Wednesday afternoon, a school district director emailed to say she might be late to the first community of practice session. She explained she was giving a board presentation that evening, right before the session. Her story isnt unique; its emblematic of the complexity educational leaders face as they navigate responsibilities, unforeseen demands and the need for human connection.

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Political Science Now

JUNE 2, 2025

Congratulations to the 2025-2026 APSA Diversity Fellowship Program Spring Recipients! The APSA Diversity Fellowship Program (DFP) , formerly the Minority Fellowship Program, was established in 1969 as a fellowship competition to diversify the political science profession. The DFP provides support to students applying to, or in the early stages of, a PhD program in political science.

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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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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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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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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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Political Science Now

JUNE 2, 2025

Polarization and the Democratic System: Kinds, Reasons, and Sites By Christian F. Rostbll , University of Copenhagen It is widely agreed that the increased polarization many countries experience is bad for democracy. However, existing assessments of how polarization affects democracy operate with simplified understandings of both polarization and democracy.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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