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Poor Pedagogical Choices: When task design derails your lesson

Becoming a History Teacher

They struggle to distinguish between high value and low value tasks (Hall, 2021). He therefore thought the students should be considering how to categorise causes as social, economic, political and intellectual, as well as grappling with notions of short- and long-term causation. History and Literacy in Year 7, History in Practice.

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PROOF POINTS: The number of college graduates in the humanities drops for the eighth consecutive year

The Hechinger Report

In the post-war boom of the 1950s, college students were confident of their economic futures and many studied liberal arts subjects such as English, history and philosophy. Unemployment dropped below 5 percent and the stock market soared, posting one of the best decades in history. That’s true for college students too.

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Doctors Are Taught to Lie About Race

Sapiens

The very notion that one could segregate people into groups that roughly approximate ancestry assumes those ancestral groups have remained separate throughout history. The reason lies deep in human history. In 2021, for every 100,000 live births, nearly 70 Black mothers died compared to about 27 White mothers.

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Voices at the Center: Asian American Educators Rising

ED Surge

On March 16, 2021, a 21-year-old white man went on a targeted shooting rampage across Atlanta, driving 30 miles to three massage businesses and killing eight people, the majority of whom were Asian women. A vigil attendee honored the victims of the anti-Asian spa shootings in Atlanta by remembering their names on March 21, 2021.

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Elevating Social Studies with High-Quality Instructional Materials

TCI

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.

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Ancient Human Habitation: New Discoveries from East Timor’s Laili Rock Shelter

Anthropology.net

Southeast Asia’s Ancient Cultural Heritage Beyond East Timor and Sulawesi, Australia holds some of the oldest continuous cultural heritage sites globally, reflecting its Indigenous populations' long history. Archaeological evidence in Australia dates back at least 60,000 years, highlighting the ancient roots of Aboriginal cultures.

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PROOF POINTS: Schools staff up as student enrollment drops

The Hechinger Report

The first act followed the Great Recession of 2008, as schools added back staff that they had been forced to cut in the economic downturn. The second act came with seven consecutive years of strong economic growth beginning in 2013. School hiring has taken place in three acts, Roza says.

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