Living Geography

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

It says that climate change and sustainability must become embedded across the curriculum for all children up to age 18, and not just be restricted to science and geography. The lead signatory is someone very well known to the geography community: Nicola Walshe. She said: History and English have a role, as do all other humanities.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 17, 2023

where our school buildings are crumbling, where our students are not being adequately prepared to face the realities of the climate crisis, where there are vast inequities across race and class,” said Shiva Rajbhandari, a Sunrise Movement organizer and a 2023 graduate of Idaho’s Boise High School.

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Teaching American History

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

He did, and Livingston soon found herself sitting in an introductory college course in US history. The next semester, she took two more US history classes, then realized she’d found her major. When a position teaching geography to ninth graders at a private high school opened, she took it. The professor’s lecture fascinated her.

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Teaching American History

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Two graduates of the Master of Arts in American History and Government (MAHG) program submitted essays on how they teach these skills to the Bill of Rights Institute’s 2023 National Civics Teacher of the Year Award , placing among the top ten finalists. Peters agreed. Civic engagement involves more than just showing up to vote.

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Living Geography

JANUARY 10, 2024

A cross-posting from my GCSE Natural History blog. Six Inches of Soil is a new film, which explores the value of this material, which many people undervalue - not understanding its critical importance. Huge thanks to award-winning creative agency @Chinagraph_L for producing it for us. We hope you love it as much as we do.

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Living Geography

AUGUST 24, 2024

A cross posting from my GCSE Natural History Blog. pic.twitter.com/T9wXXMdNpR — James Gilbert (@jamesgilbertmr) September 25, 2023 Solastalgia was mentioned in the Guardian last year in a piece by Damien Gayle. I got to know this land; to it I let myself attach meaning & importance. But I can’t protect it, so must face up to loss.

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Dr. Preece

JULY 29, 2023

Gives great history and context for what’s happened and where the negotiations have been in the past. Great resource for Departments, mentors, ITE/ECT providers to upskill teachers on climate change education – not just in Geography! There’s a significant update as of June 2023, with new options, features and land modelling.

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Strange Maps

JANUARY 31, 2024

Zooming out from individual casualties to the overall death toll, the dead of Everest start to form a morbid geography of sorts, which does more than simply horrify. Credit: pointofnoreturn.org) This first map shows the geography of the mountain, with a flag planted for each place where one or more climbers died.

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Zinn Education Project

JANUARY 8, 2024

While right-wing legislatures restrict the teaching of Black history, we are pleased to support teachers who work to teach truthfully about U.S. This included 4,000 hardback copies in 2022 and 2023 — and 10,000 copies of the 2024 paperback edition. In a class with teachers , Delmont explained the relevance of learning this history.

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Geogramblings

DECEMBER 14, 2023

While an individual or group may think that they are an island, the geography teacher in me can see that their island, like everyone else’s, is in the middle of concentric circles of scale. As such, there are references throughout to other parts of the chapter. To magpie a Disney catchphrase, it really is a small world after all.

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Political Science Now

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Her research focuses on early modern political theory and the history of International Relations Thought. She is a co-author of the book Checks in the Balance: Legislative Capacity and the Dynamics of Executive Power (Princeton University Press, 2022), which received the 2022 Alan Rosenthal Prize and the 2023 Richard E. Neustadt Award.

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Anthropology.net

FEBRUARY 15, 2025

” This study not only refines our understanding of Fulani history but also challenges long-standing assumptions about African population genetics. This study provides compelling evidence that their history is even deeper and more complex than previously imagined. But one thing is certain: the Fulani are not an isolated anomaly.

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Sapiens

DECEMBER 10, 2024

To understand Operation Christmas Drop, it helps to have some history and geography. In December 2023, packages dropped by U.S. In ignoring this history, she says, They made [a] mockery of us as happy natives. The holiday ritual is more about militarism, exceptionalismand what it means to be an American.

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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.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 24, 2024

We’re setting up a system in which students, by the accident of geography, are getting very different kinds of education,” Ross said. “Do In 2023 alone, the American Library Association tracked challenges to more than 9,000 books in school libraries nationwide. Do we really want that to be the case? Is that fair?”

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 12, 2024

Walz, the governor of Minnesota, worked for roughly two decades in public schools, as a geography teacher and football coach. He has championed investments in public education: For example, in March 2023, he signed a bill to make school meals free to all students in public schools. Harris, a former U.S.

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