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‘Easy to just write us off’: Rural students’ choices shrink as colleges slash majors

The Hechinger Report

The University of Alaska System scaled back more than 40 , including earth sciences, geography and environmental resources and hospitality administration. Youngstown State University in Ohio, for instance, axed Italian, religious studies and other majors in 2021 , then six more three years later.

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2021 Geography symposium

Geography Teacher Sharing

Myself and Arman shared on Harnessing Technology for GI for the 2021 Geography symposium. Harnessing Technology for GI Please see the padlet for the link to the resources shared: [link]

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Tracing the Genetic Threads of Wallacea’s Complex History

Anthropology.net

These movements have blurred the relationship between genetics and geography, making it difficult to reconstruct the origins of its inhabitants. “There’s been so much movement in Wallacea in the past couple of thousand years that it obscures the relationship between geography and genetics,” Tobler added.

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The buzz around teaching facts to boost reading is bigger than the evidence for it

The Hechinger Report

More schools around the country, from Baltimore to Michigan to Colorado , are adopting these content-filled lessons to teach geography, astronomy and even art history. 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.

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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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Decolonising Geography: A journey for #GAConf23

Geogramblings

Each year since 2021, the Decolonising Geography group put together a pick of sessions at the Geographical Association Annual Conference, which have the potential to progress the geography teaching profession the most, with a healthy focus on decolonising education. Need a Decolonising Geography 101?

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The Cats Before the Cats: How Leopard Cats Lived Among Ancient Chinese Societies for Millennia

Anthropology.net

2025), continue to refine our understanding of how humans and felines have interacted across time and geography. 2025), continue to refine our understanding of how humans and felines have interacted across time and geography. DOI: 10.1038/s41559-017-0139 Haruda, A. The earliest domestic cat on the Silk Road." 1 Han, Y., Doherty, S.,