Strange Maps

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Professor Blavatskyys study on BMI and corruption won him the Economics prize at the 2021 Ig Nobel Awards, the annual celebration of quirky research. For the original paper, see Pavlo Blavatskyy, 2021. Still, there are some problems with the findings. 29(2), pages 343-356, April.

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FEBRUARY 14, 2021

Below is Sofia's story in her own words: When it was announced that our school district would begin the 2020-2021 school year fully remote, I knew it would be a challenge to engage my Pre-K students remotely while still adhering to developmentally appropriate practices and maintaining fidelity to our curriculum.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

While 25 percent of white students passed algebra in eighth grade in 2021, only 13 percent of Black students did, according to the most recent data from the U.S. Researchers are trying to understand why so few Black and Hispanic students and low-income students of all races are making it through this early gate. Department of Education.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Child care: Washington state : Initiative 2109 aimed to repeal a capital gains tax that passed in 2021 and has since provided child care subsidies and money for select child care programs. Here’s a look at how early childhood fared this election: (This story will be updated as vote tallies are finalized.)

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Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 1, 2024

Source: Environmental Policy and Governance, 2021. Source: Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, 2021. Challenges and Innovations in IPBES Reports Reviews the innovative elements and challenges encountered during the implementation of the IPBES Conceptual Framework. Source: Ambio, 2022.

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Anthropology.net

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

Nature Communications , 16(107). DOI:10.1038/s41467-024-55740-7 ​ Vernot, B., Unearthing Neanderthal population history using nuclear and mitochondrial DNA from cave sediments. Science , 372(6542), eabf1667. DOI:10.1126/science.abf1667. Zavala, E. Pleistocene sediment DNA reveals hominin and faunal turnovers at Denisova Cave. Gelabert, P.,

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MARCH 10, 2025

Related: The buzz around teaching facts to boost reading is bigger than the evidence for it A separate survey of middle school teachers published in 2021 echoes these observational findings that very little reading is taking place in classrooms.

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Anthropology.net

NOVEMBER 30, 2024

Source: Cambridge Archaeological Journal , 2021. Source: Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports , 2021. Paleoindian Bone Needle Manufacture: Implications for Clothing and Culture Examines needle production in the context of tailoring and its cultural significance, focusing on evidence from Wyoming and neighboring regions.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

More than a quarter of students were “chronically absent,” meaning they had missed 10 percent of classes or more, during the 2021-2022 school year. Since the pandemic, the number of students who are missing class has risen. That was a steep increase from the 15 percent of students missing that much class before the pandemic.

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The Effortful Educator

MARCH 2, 2025

You can find me on Twitter , Bluesky , or feel free to contact me through my website. A scandal in Bohemia. Strelbytskyy Multimedia Publishing. Forrin, N. McLean, D. Siklos-Whillans, J., … & MacLeod, C. Attention spreads between students in a learning environment. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, 27(2), 276.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

Stanford University studies in 2021 and 2023 identified him as being among the top 2 percent of scientists in the world. With over 200 published articles and more than 50 books on reading education, Rasinski has dedicated nearly 40 years to studying reading fluency and helping struggling readers become proficient.

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MARCH 17, 2025

One former school, Gatewood Elementary, became the Gatewood Early Learning Center in 2021, with eight classrooms serving infants, toddlers and preschoolers. Several of the schools the district shuttered in 2019 have since become sites for early learning programs.

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Sapiens

MARCH 11, 2025

This narrative of Whiteness and of Argentina as the Europe of South America persists today, as highlighted in a 2021 speech by then Argentine President Alberto Fernndez. The Mexicans came from the Indians, the Brazilians came from the jungle, but us Argentines came from boats. And they were boats that came from Europe, Fernndez claimed.

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OCTOBER 30, 2024

Motivated to change this conversation and influence policy at the state and local levels, I ran for school board in 2021.

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Anthropology.net

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

The ichnology of White Sands (New Mexico): Linear traces and human footprints, evidence of transport technology? Quaternary Science Advances. DOI: 10.1016/j.qsa.2025.100274 2025.100274 Bustos, D. Footprints preserve terminal Pleistocene hunt? DOI: 10.1126/science.abg7586 Pigati, J. Footprints evidence of the earliest Americans?

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 17, 2024

As of 2021, fewer than 150 such facilities operated in the United States, according to Donna Butts, executive director of Generations United, a nonprofit that advocates for intergenerational policies and programming. Intergenerational shared sites we think they really are the way of the future.

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A Psychology Teacher Writes

JUNE 11, 2024

However, it can be challenging to ensure that group provision includes a sufficient number of mechanisms that underpin effective professional development (Sims & Fletcher-Wood, 2021; EEF, 2021). EEF (2021). Sims & Fletcher-Wood (2021). References Coe, R. Evidence Based Education blog.

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MARCH 19, 2025

In the 2021-2022 academic year, the Ohio Department of Education and Workforce found more than 43,000 individuals with active teaching credentials were not employed as teachers or staff members in a public school.

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MARCH 6, 2025

Math literacy often contributes to economic success: A 2021 study of more than 5,500 adults found that participants made $4,062 more per year for each correct answer on an eight-question math test. Sherry Smith understands that kind of anxiety. She didn’t even want to step foot into a math class. I hated to disclose that to people.

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Sapiens

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

To better understand roti through both the personal and the political, I created the Roti Collective in 2021. The collaborative research endeavor is dedicated to the study (and celebration) of roti and roti-making in all its forms, alongside the histories that have shaped rotis travels through space and time.

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Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Journal : Revista Portuguesa de Arqueologia , 2021. DOI : 10.1017/S095977430900015X PDF Link : ResearchGate Experimental Production of the Late Neolithic/Early Chalcolithic Engraved Schist Plaques of Southwestern Iberia Authors : Gonçalves, V. Blanco, G., & Rodríguez-Rodríguez, E.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 6, 2025

DUNEDIN, New Zealand When Principal Jen Rodgers took a 10-week sabbatical in 2021, she was on a mission to find a way to improve mathematics instruction at the primary school she leads here in one of the countrys oldest cities. Rodgers, who has led the 420-student St. Clair School since 2016, is hardly alone in worrying about maths.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

What started as a part-time gig for a couple of students in 2021 now keeps her busy six days a week. The retired public school teacher stands out in a burnt orange sweater, her curly hair adorned with a soft brown beret. Perez started tutoring students around the time the COVID-19 vaccine made it safe to meet in-person.

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Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Journal of Archaeological Research, 22 (4), 563–602. DOI:10.1007/s10814-013-9069-x Contextualizes fire-related behaviors, providing comparative insights into Neanderthal pyrotechnology. Langley, A., & Needham, A. Testing manganese dioxide as a fire-lighting aid in Neanderthal contexts. EXARC Journal.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 28, 2024

million students in the fall of 2021 and roughly 300,000 students in the early 2000s. During the 2022-23 school year, nearly 2.5 million high school students took college classes, simultaneously earning high school and college credits. That’s up from 1.5

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

If these efforts arent allowed to elbow sound reading instruction aside, they cannot hurt and, in the long run, they might even help, he wrote in a 2021 blog post. The long view Shanahan speculates that if knowledge building does improve reading comprehension, it would take many, many years for it to manifest. We are all waiting for answers.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 12, 2025

Senate investigation, over 7,000 schools or districts used GoGuardians surveillance products in 2021. When North Carolinas Durham Public Schools piloted Gaggle in 2021, surveys showed most staff members found it helpful. According to a U.S. Vancouver schools apologized for releasing the documents. But community members raised concerns.

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Anthropology.net

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

21 , and photos taken of the remaining artefact collection at the Institut des Sciences Anthropologiques de Développement (ISAD) in 2021. Quarrying activity at Anyama between 2020 and 2021 irreversibly damaged much of the Bété I site, erasing priceless evidence of our past. "It

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Anthropology.net

MARCH 15, 2025

In 2021, it was revealed that Princeton University had been storing and using remains of two Black children who were killed in the 1985 Philadelphia MOVE bombing for forensic anthropology classes—without the knowledge or consent of their families. Several high-profile cases have highlighted the issue.

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ED Surge

MARCH 5, 2025

When I began my classroom career in 2021, I expected my school would embody the same tech-forward identity I observed at the district level. During the pandemic, our district embodied this tech-forward identity by providing Chromebooks and hotspots for all students to go fully remote for an entire academic year of virtual learning.

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Political Science Now

MARCH 18, 2025

Read about previous grantees and their projects: 2020 Grants | 2021 Grants | 2022 Grants | 2023 Grants | 2024 Grants The post Call for Applications: 2025 APSA Advancing Research Grant for Early-Career Scholars | Deadline: May 6, 2025 appeared first on. Applications are due May 6, 2025.

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Living Geography

JANUARY 29, 2025

Another useful interactive from ONS to unpick the Census 2021 data. This comes after yesterday's news stories about projections of how fast migration is going to be changing the UK's population over the next decade. The UK Population projection explorer is a new tool launched yesterday.

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NOVEMBER 12, 2024

State Evaluations Reveal Gaps in Civics Education In 2021, The Thomas B. Download our free eBook , which offers a comprehensive guide on selecting and implementing high-quality instructional materials and includes practical tips, checklists, and case studies to help you get started.

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OCTOBER 16, 2024

I don’t know if there’s one thing — I think it’s a blend,” said Louie Rodriguez, vice provost and dean for undergraduate education at UC Riverside, where in the 2021-22 school year 46 percent of freshmen received Pell Grants and 75 percent of Pell recipients graduated within six years.

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Catlin Tucker

JULY 19, 2020

2020-2021 promises to be an unpredictable school year. Most of the teachers I know, including my husband and most of my friends, are not sure whether they will be returning to school on a hybrid schedule or teaching entirely online. That is making it a challenge to prepare for the new school year.

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Teaching Anthropology

DECEMBER 13, 2024

New York: Wiley, 2021. Merrill Singer, PhD Senior Research Scientist, Center for Health, Intervention and Prevention Emeritus Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Connecticut, USA Recent Books Ecocrises Interactions: Human Health and the Changing Environment. A Companion to Medical Anthropology. 2 nd Edition. Abadia-Barrero.

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Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Journal : Human Ecology , 2021. Mothering the Orphaned Pup: The Beginning of a Domestication Process in the Upper Palaeolithic Authors : Germonpré, M., Van den Broeck, M.,

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