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The Mythological Tapestry of Humanity: Unraveling Ancient Stories through Genes and Geography

Anthropology.net

Yet, could these stories also encode the history of humanity’s migrations and interactions? “Our results reveal that correlations between mythemes and genetic patterns can be traced back to population movements that pre-date the Last Glacial Maximum,” the authors write, situating storytelling at the core of human history.

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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. Some educators are calling for schools to adopt a curriculum that emphasizes content along with phonics. Weve all been there.

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Talking Natural History

Living Geography

Earlier this week I spent an interesting day in Cambridge discussing the GCSE Natural History as a member of OCR's Consultative Forum. We had an update on the context within which the new specification will be appearing - this was similar to the OCR Geography Forum meeting that I'd attended the month before. or be opened this month.

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How States Can Take a Grassroots Approach to Training More Bilingual Teachers

ED Surge

Marvin Lopez is executive director of the California Center on Teaching Careers, which has plans to open a rural bilingual teacher residency program in 2025. Geography is another hardship for potential bilingual educators. He says that the challenges in increasing the bilingual teacher pipeline are multifaceted.

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CFP: Lost In Time: Intellectual History before the Guillotine

Society for Classical Studies

The 1st Lost In Time interdisciplinary intellectual history conference offers a platform for scholars from a variety of disciplines who are interested in concepts and their contexts, which have not traditionally predominated within intellectual history.

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Engaging with the RGS collections

Living Geography

A cross-posting from my 'At the Home of Geography' blog which covers my work as Vice President of the Royal Geographical Society. Deadlines for applications are in January 2025. The deadline is 7 January 2025. The deadline is 13 January 2025. The deadline is 13 January 2025. Find out more and apply.

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Worldly Wednesdays

Living Geography

. - blogging - a wide range of other blogs in addition to LivingGeography - work writing and reviewing for Oak National Academy as they develop their geography specifications for KS3 (having previously worked on the KS2 offering which is taking shape nicely - check it out!) - textbook authoring - which will be ongoing into 2025 - GCSE Natural History (..)