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Rethinking Inequality: What 50,000 Ancient Homes Tell Us About Power, Wealth, and Human Choices

Anthropology.net

” Measuring Inequality in Clay and Stone To capture economic inequality across time and geography, the research team calculated the Gini coefficient —a statistical tool commonly used today to assess income distribution—for each of more than 1,000 archaeological settlements. . ” Nature , 551(7682), 619–622.

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"What are we teaching? Powerful knowledge and a capabilities curriculum" - a review

Living Geography

The latest book by geography teacher Richard Bustin was published by Crown House Publishing in October 2024. GeoCapabilities began in 2012 with a pilot project led by the American Association of Geographers. It embraces in how geography is understood and expressed in national school standards.

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An unnoticed result of the decline of men in college: It’s harder for women to get in

The Hechinger Report

Toward the end of filling out the class, there would definitely be a push to look for more men to admit,” said Medley, who was in her role at Brandeis from 2012 to 2014. Brandeis accepted 44 percent of male applicants compared to 36 percent of female applicants in 2012-2013, according to data the university reports to the federal government.

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A study finds promise in project-based learning for young low-income children

The Hechinger Report

For this experiment, the researchers spent years developing four separate project-based units on history, geography, economics and civics. The curriculum development was the subject of a 2012 paper.)

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Webinar Series: Teaching the 2024 U.S. Election

Political Science Now

King is an assistant professor of political science and geography at Old Dominion University. She is the recipient of the Barbara Burch Award for Faculty Leadership in Civic Engagement (American Democracy Project, June 2024) and the Stand Out Faculty Award (ALL IN Campus Democracy Challenge, November 2019). Dr. Athena M.

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A school district is building a DIY broadband network

The Hechinger Report

Nobody can own spectrum, but they can get a license to use specific frequencies, which the FCC grants by geography. And a number of lease holders fell prey to economic realities —the company that had leased Albemarle County’s spectrum, for example, struggled in the great recession and had to back out of the deal in 2012.

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Activism in/as Scholarship

All Things Pedagogical

I mention this because I will be talking about geographies of activism and exclusion in a bit, and it is important to remember geographies help inform who we are and our responses and responsibilities to activism, scholarship, who we acknowledge in our citations, and the work that I do in accessibility awareness and inclusive practices.