ED Surge

DECEMBER 19, 2024

The average math score among both fourth and eighth graders in 2023 was statistically the same as in 1995 when some of todays students' own parents were in grade school themselves. Looking at the Big Picture Fourth graders scored an average of 517 points in math in 2023, putting them just one point lower than the average score in 1995.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 11, 2024

At least 30 colleges closed their only or final campus in the first 10 months of 2023, including 14 nonprofit colleges and 16 for-profit colleges, according to an analysis of federal data by the State Higher Education Executive Officers Association, or SHEEO. Sign up for our higher education newsletter. Listen to our higher education podcast.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Less than 40 percent of teens surveyed reported having any media literacy instruction during the 2023-24 school year, according to the analysis. Just six states have guidelines for how to teach media literacy, and only three make it a requirement in public schools.

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Sapiens

JANUARY 9, 2025

I made this trip in November 2023 on behalf of University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, as a person holding several identities and roles: I am Native American/Indigenous (a citizen of the Chickasaw Nation), an American, an anthropologist, and a poet. We had minimal information to work with from the records of purchase.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

New Jersey had the nations lowest proportion roughly 2 percent of eligible students receiving these services in 2023. million who were eligible in 2023, the most recent year for which data is available. million in federal and state funds in 2023, the last year that complete data is available.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Both reading and math scores increased in districts in states like Mississippi, North Carolina and Tennessee, where the rate of ESSER spending per student was relatively high (over $1,000) from 2022 to 2023.

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Strange Maps

DECEMBER 17, 2024

The 2023 Corruption Perceptions Index in map form. Instead, to arrive at their Corruption Perceptions Index and Control of Corruption Indicator (respectively), they aggregate the opinions of experts in governance and corruption. Darker means a higher perception of corruption, and vice versa.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 13, 2025

For example, in two studies of Indiana students with disabilities published in 2021 and 2023 , researchers found that the more time that students spent in an inclusive setting, the better they did. Some recent studies with statistical sophistication still show that inclusion prevails.

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Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Sahala Conference : Ancient Language Processing Proceedings , 2023. Sonik Book : Routledge Handbook of Emotions in the Ancient Near East , 2023. Bennett Journal : Journal of Cuneiform Studies , 2023. PDF Link : ACL Anthology Love and Kindness in the Assyrian State Author : K. PDF Link : Helsinki University 1 Lahnakoski, J.

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Sapiens

JANUARY 13, 2025

In November 2023 , Ian Fry , the first U.N. A translators notes are refashioned into a poem calling for justice for Indigenous peoples in the Philippines displaced by a megadam. Translation Notes is part of the collection Poets Resist, Refuse, and Find a Way Through. Read the introduction to the collection here.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 23, 2025

The National Center for Education Statistics released its data for 2023-24 in December. It had about 76,800 students at the end of 2023-24. Most of the countrys 100 largest districts by enrollment have seen declines since the 2019-20 school year.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Across the San Carlos Unified School District, 76 percent of students were chronically absent during the 2022-2023 school year, meaning they missed 10 percent or more of the school year. A teacher and a truancy officer also reached out to Tommy’s family to address his attendance. He was one of many. Related: Become a lifelong learner.

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Anthropology.net

MARCH 18, 2025

million-year-old stone tools from Lomekwi 3, West Turkana, Kenya. Nature , 521(7552), 310-315. link] Plummer, T. Finestone, E. Expanded geographic and taxonomic evidence for early butchery in the Oldowan. Science , 379(6628), 561-566. link] Key, A. Lycett, S. The evolution of hominin tool use: A functional perspective on early stone tools.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

In 2023 and 2024, RAND surveyed more than 3,000 school principals and almost 1,000 math teachers across the country. The educators are part of a specially constructed national sample, designed to reflect all public schools and the demographics of the U.S. student population.

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Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 2, 2024

DOI:10.1073/pnas.1911137116 1911137116 Challenges assumptions about behavioral complexity in Neanderthals, providing context for tar production. Fajardo, S., Kozowyk, P. B., & Langejans, G. Measuring ancient technological complexity and its cognitive implications using Petri nets. Scientific Reports, 13 , 16578. DOI:10.1016/j.jas.2020.105116

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 12, 2025

Related: Students work harder when they think they are being watched Between October 2023 and October 2024, nearly 2,200 students, about 10% of the districts enrollment, were the subject of a Gaggle alert. After hearing about these experiences, the Durham Board of Education voted to stop using Gaggle in 2023.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

It only occurred by October of 2023 using federal relief dollars, according to economic analysis from the Economic Policy Institute. With the staffing shortages schools have been wading through, it’s hardly surprising that adding another challenge would make teachers feel the job is even more thankless and insurmountable.

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Digital Promise

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

We convened school leaders, educators, students, researchers, and thought leaders to advance R&D with and for students and communities.

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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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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 6, 2025

After his release from a New York prison in 2023, he moved to Rochester, New York, and is hoping to take the actuarial exam, which requires a lot of math. Havens is still involved in the Prison Mathematics Project, but handed leadership of the program over to Jeffers in October 2023. Related: It used to be a notoriously violent prison.

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TeachThought

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

The massive T-Mobile data breach in 2023, which exposed 37 million customers’ data, was a stark reminder: cybersecurity isn’t just IT jargon—it’s a necessity in our digital world. Two-Factor Authentication : According to Microsoft’s 2023 Security Report, adding this extra step has prevented 99.9%

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A Principal's Reflections

JULY 16, 2023

Tools like ChatGBT and Google Bard weren’t even a thing before 2023. You would be hard-pressed not to have heard how AI is evolving at such a fast rate. With any innovation, there is both excitement and fear. While there is room for caution, leaders can tap into the power of AI.

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TeachThought

AUGUST 27, 2024

2023, www.verywellmind.com/gardners-theory-of-multiple-intelligences-279516 Rosier, Lauren. Whether you are fighting an eating disorder or you know someone who is, this book offers advice for you every step of the way. Works Cited Cherry, Kendra MSEd. Gardner’s Theory of Multiple Intelligences.” Verywell Mind , Verywell Mind, 11 Mar.

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Teaching Anthropology

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

Teaching prompted us to reassess our skills and rediscover the motivations that led us to pursue archaeology originally.

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HistoryRewriter

APRIL 8, 2024

The writing framework for the NAEP offers the following advice: When students are asked to write about what they are reading, their comprehension of what they have read goes up 24 percentile points ( Gabriel, 2023, p.

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Anthropology.net

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

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? DOI: 10.1126/science.adj1721 1 Bennett, M. Bustos, D. Reynolds, S. Strehlau, H.

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Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 19, 2024

. “Understanding how these practices spread and their significance will help us uncover more about the relationship between early humans and their environment.” ” Related Research Morales, J., & Latini, R. Animal symbolism in Predynastic Egyptian burial practices." Antiquity , 97(392), 784-799. DOI:10.15184/aqy.2023.784

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Sapiens

JANUARY 29, 2025

As a paleontologist, I traveled in May 2023 to the Indonesian islands of the Riau Archipelago, just south of Singapore, as part of an ongoing quest for evidence of Homo erectus , one of our oldest ancestors who once lived in this region from about 1.9 million years ago to 110,000 years ago.

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Anthropology.net

MARCH 18, 2025

DOI: 10.1038/nature22336 This study presents evidence from Moroccan fossils suggesting that H. sapiens had a more widespread African origin than previously believed. Ragsdale, A. A weakly structured stem for human origins in Africa." Nature , 617(7962), 755–763. sapiens arose from multiple interconnected groups rather than a single lineage.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 17, 2024

Banning legacy admissions is promoted not only as a matter of fairness, but as a strategy for increasing Black, Latino and Native American student enrollment in elite universities after the Supreme Court restricted race-conscious admissions in 2023. Related: Interested in innovations in the field of higher education?

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Society for Classical Studies

MARCH 7, 2025

The previous North American Cicero Awayday was held at the University of Virginia in 2023. The departments of Classics and Philosophy at Wake Forest University cordially invite you to the second biennial North American Cicero Awayday on 12 April 2025 at the Wake Downtown campus in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 6, 2025

The government made a rightward shift in 2023 to the National Party, ending six years of leadership under former Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, who had an international profile. At May Road School in Auckland, students in Years 3 and 4, equivalent to second and third grade in the United States, work on fractions.

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Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 5, 2024

Journal : Quaternary Science Reviews , 2023. Related Research Studies These articles highlight significant debates and evidence regarding Homo sapiens and Neanderthal speciation, evolution, and interrelations. Were Neanderthals and Homo sapiens 'Good Species'? Authors : Meneganzin, A., & Bernardi, M. DOI : 10.1016/j.quascirev.2023.107892

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Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Journal : Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory , 2023. DOI : 10.1371/journal.pone.0309107 0309107 Summary : Investigates the role of children in creating ceramic objects and other forms of art during the early Upper Paleolithic. Adolescence and Innovation in the European Upper Palaeolithic Authors : Nowell, A., & French, J.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

A 2023 study of the Core Knowledge curriculum, which was not peer reviewed, received a lot of buzz. Does a content-packed curriculum translate into higher reading achievement years later? Putting knowledge to the test Researchers have been testing content-packed lessons in schools to see how much they boost reading comprehension.

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Anthropology.net

NOVEMBER 30, 2024

Source: Quaternary International , 2023. Paleoindian Adaptation and Faunal Processing at the La Prele Site Focuses on adaptations evident in faunal processing and tool production at the La Prele site, correlating archaeological and isotopic evidence.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 19, 2024

students did not make progress in catching up in the most recent 2023-24 school year and slid even further behind in math and reading, exacerbating pandemic learning losses. “At Curriculum Associates did not detect as much deterioration as NWEA, but did find widespread stagnation in 2023-24, according to a report released on August 19, 2024.

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