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Tracing the Genetic Threads of Wallacea’s Complex History

Anthropology.net

JANUARY 8, 2025

Wallacea, the sprawling chain of islands in eastern Indonesia that includes Timor-Leste, has long been a crossroads of cultures, languages, and genetics. Dr. Gludhug Ariyo Purnomo from the University of Adelaide, who led the research, noted that the findings emphasize the importance of West Papua as a bio-cultural hub.

History

History Ancestry Archaeology Geography

Webinar Series: Teaching the 2024 U.S. Election

Political Science Now

JULY 11, 2024

Her research agenda focuses on political science pedagogy, campus-based civic engagement, and pop culture & politics. King is an assistant professor of political science and geography at Old Dominion University. Allison Rank is an associate professor of American Politics at SUNY Oswego. Dr. Athena M.

Civic Engagement

Civic Engagement Teaching Civics Political Science

Closing the Digital Learning Gap

Digital Promise

JANUARY 8, 2019

They are connecting across cultural and national borders to promote global awareness and tolerance. Still, huge gaps exist in educational outcomes, high school graduation rates, college readiness and workforce advancements based on race, class, and geography. Students are designing, making, coding, composing, animating, and publishing.

Primary Sources

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The Politics and Limits of Aspiration

Anthropology News

JULY 17, 2024

Adults in the audience responded with knowing and affirming sounds, signaling their recognition of the persistent apartheid geography that maintains racialized access to spaces and opportunities in their city. When we met in 2014, he was a confident grade twelve student who saw his Launch education as “a ticket” to a life beyond the township.

Pedagogy

Pedagogy Anthropology Geography Private School

The school district where kids are sent to psychiatric emergency rooms more than three times a week — some as young as 5

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 4, 2023

In interviews, dozens of students, parents, educators, lawyers and advocates for students with disabilities in Wicomico County said that a lack of resources and trained staff, combined with a punitive culture in some of the schools, are behind the misuse of emergency petitions. The Department of Justice declined to comment.

Middle School

Middle School Professional Development Geography Public School

Open letter to teachers who feel trapped in racist schools

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 28, 2017

Communities, ones organized by race, socioeconomic class and geography, use schools to cover blatant housing discrimination, school financing bias and white supremacy. Government Accountability Office found the percentage of all schools with racial or socio-economic isolation grew from 9 percent to 16 percent from 2001 to 2014.

Economics

Economics Geography Civics History

A school district is building a DIY broadband network

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 12, 2017

There’s been a real positive change in the culture.”. Nobody can own spectrum, but they can get a license to use specific frequencies, which the FCC grants by geography. Towers are critical parts of the broadband network, but they’re expensive (a new tower can cost $100,000 or more to erect), and getting the permits can be tricky, too.

Library

Library Middle School High School Government

10 years of the 'Detectorists'

Living Geography

OCTOBER 16, 2024

It's ten years since the Detectorists was first shown - in early October 2014. Alright geography degree, where should we be searching?" Detectorists' instantly grabbed me when the first episode of the first series was broadcast on the BBC on 2nd of October 2014. It was the focus of an article in today's Guardian newspaper.

Geography

Geography Archaeology Museum Cultures

Saint Leo University plans the nation’s first veteran studies bachelor’s degree program

The Hechinger Report

JULY 2, 2021

The students at Saint Leo will start with a course that takes a holistic look at the veteran experience, McLees said, and then move to a class that looks at “legendary warriors” from wars across time and geography outside the United States, and a course specifically focused on Native American veterans serving two sovereigns.

Psychology

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After years of inaction, Delta teacher shortage reaches ‘crisis’ levels

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

Teacher shortage is primarily a function of race and geography,” the authors wrote. These factors are situated squarely in enduring cultural, social, and historical issues of race in Mississippi.”. A lack of morale and cultural competency. Related: Former educators answer call to return to school.

Charter School

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Why students are ignorant about the Civil Rights Movement

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 1, 2017

The book was valuable for state geography and basic vocabulary, she said, but using it to teach about the Civil Rights Movement was out of the question. In a 2014 report, the group said the state had improved somewhat, covering 50 percent of recommended content. Her assigned ninth-grade textbook back then? And not just in February.

K-12

K-12 Social Studies History Archiving

Nurturing Global Citizenship Through ‘British Values’ (Book Release: Developing Quality PSHE in Secondary Schools and Colleges)

Geogramblings

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Our world has shrunk due to the spread and influence of popular culture and branding; we are more connected whether physically through higher speed extensive transportation or digitally through the internet. Not just between cultures and groups but also harmony within. The keyword for me is ‘harmony’. The keyword for me is ‘harmony’.

Human Rights

Human Rights Geography Humanities Controversial Topics

California finally ended a ban on bilingual education. Now it can’t find enough teachers for these classes

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 9, 2024

As the grandchild of Mexican immigrants, she didnt find her language or culture welcome in the school. Little Mexican girls see their culture celebrated on the walls of every classroom. They can learn social studies in Spanish; its still history and geography. Flores was punished for speaking Spanish in this classroom in 1953.

Elementary School

Elementary School Education K-12 History

Elevating Social Studies with High-Quality Instructional Materials

TCI

OCTOBER 28, 2024

This broad field draws upon various disciplines, such as anthropology, archeology, economics, geography, history, law, and philosophy. History and Civics scores for eighth-grade students sounded an alarm: scores have dropped by an average of five points since 2018 and nine points since 2014.

Social Studies

Social Studies Civics K-12 Geography

Refugee girls want to improve the world. Will we let them do so?

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 7, 2019

In the camp and elsewhere, agencies work to change cultural beliefs that girls don’t need to be educated or should be married off as teens to the highest bidder. The report also found that refugee education projects received less than 1 percent of all global education aid in 2014. Photo: Yannick Ruhimbasa for The Hechinger Report.

High School

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Tracing the Genetic Threads of Wallacea’s Complex History

Webinar Series: Teaching the 2024 U.S. Election

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Closing the Digital Learning Gap

The Politics and Limits of Aspiration

The school district where kids are sent to psychiatric emergency rooms more than three times a week — some as young as 5

Open letter to teachers who feel trapped in racist schools

A school district is building a DIY broadband network

10 years of the 'Detectorists'

Saint Leo University plans the nation’s first veteran studies bachelor’s degree program

After years of inaction, Delta teacher shortage reaches ‘crisis’ levels

Why students are ignorant about the Civil Rights Movement

Nurturing Global Citizenship Through ‘British Values’ (Book Release: Developing Quality PSHE in Secondary Schools and Colleges)

California finally ended a ban on bilingual education. Now it can’t find enough teachers for these classes

Elevating Social Studies with High-Quality Instructional Materials

Refugee girls want to improve the world. Will we let them do so?

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