Living Geography

MAY 5, 2024

Earlier this week I spent an interesting day in Cambridge discussing the GCSE Natural History as a member of OCR's Consultative Forum. Time is tight to complete all the required steps for accreditation in time to start teaching the specification in 2025, and it may slip into 2026 - the timeline is very compressed from now on.

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Society for Classical Studies

OCTOBER 24, 2024

The series will feature ten, week-long visiting fellowships grouped around three main themes: the transmission of evidence (2024-5), the role of comparative work (2025-6), and the influence of uniquely modern ontological premises (2026-7). Fellowships will be distributed equally across the 2025-2026 academic year (i.e.,

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Society for Classical Studies

MARCH 4, 2024

Exploring the Assumptions of Cultural History: Call for Fellows kskordal Mon, 03/04/2024 - 13:37 Image The Future of the Past Lab and the Center for Premodern Studies at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities are excited to announce a three-year series of visiting fellowships titled “Exploring the Assumptions of Cultural History.”

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 16, 2025

With declining birth rates and growing skepticism about the value of a degree, higher education is facing an enrollment cliff, set to hit hard in 2026. Kirk] Some quick history. The anxiety-inducing college admissions game is changing. Thats 18 years after the Great Recession, when many American families stopped having babies.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 30, 2024

Eleven percent of the class of 2027 are legacies; the numbers were 12 percent for the class of 2026 and 14 percent for the class of 2025. percent , the lowest in recent history. The overall acceptance rate for the class of 2027 was 4.35 Yale had 602 Black undergraduates on campus last fall, making up 8.8

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Living Geography

MAY 28, 2024

A cross posting from my GCSE Natural History blog, which now has over 300 posts in preparation for supporting teachers if and when it appears as an option. It's unlikely to be earlier than 2026 before it will be taught for the first time? This means that the relevant steps to progress have not been taken.

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Society for Classical Studies

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

Kingdon Fellowship and Solmsen Fellowship Call for Applications 2025–2026 Deadline: Thursday, October 24, 2024 Through the generous bequests of Robert M. Kingdon Fellowships and four Solmsen Fellowships for the academic year 2025-2026, to be awarded to scholars from outside the University of Wisconsin–Madison.

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Tradition Humanities History Cultures 52

Anthropology.net

JULY 16, 2024

The innovative methodologies used in the research have revealed detailed information about past human history without relying solely on traditional artifacts. Professor Jules Blais, says,” "By analyzing pond sediment samples, we were able to construct detailed histories of site occupation. Biological Sciences , 291 (2026).

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Political Science Now

AUGUST 30, 2024

million dollar Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant (DDRIG) (2020-2023 and 2023-2026). million dollars in 2021; and serving as the co-Principal Investigator on the National Science Foundation (NSF) $1.4 Dr. Kimberly A. Mealy’s biography and LinkedIn profile are available upon request.

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Political Science Leadership Advocacy Human Rights 67

Zinn Education Project

MARCH 29, 2024

Now my students know that if I am wearing my BLM shirt or Black History Matters shirt at school it is not a performative act — it means that they can hold me accountable to what I have done in and out of class to show that I am living up to that belief. history, racism, and LGBTQ+ identity. history, racism, and LGBTQ+ identity.

Teaching 52

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Political Science Now

AUGUST 23, 2024

He is also serving as a Marine Corps University Non-Resident Krulak Fellow for academic years 2021-2026, is the Director of Professional and Educational Games for Mobius Worlds Publishing, and consults on organizational wargaming, crisis response exercises, and scenario planning. Air Force Academy.

Political Science 41

Political Science Pedagogy Teaching Civic Engagement 41

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

Darryl Baca — the student who praised Mariscal after his classroom speech — epitomizes the entire history of Pelican Bay. But now he hopes his academic progress will bolster his case for parole in 2026. “I He came to the prison in 1990, only months after it opened. I had to train to be a student,” he said.

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Education Leadership Government Teaching 131

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

We’re not teaching students the real history of democracy in this country. We’re not teaching about the ramifications of slavery and the Tulsa Race Massacre and the realities of police brutality, not just now, but throughout history. We need to repay that long-accumulated civic debt.

Civics 143

Civics Economics History Government 143

The Hechinger Report

MAY 30, 2024

Catherine Epstein: We have the papers of some relatively famous alums, and then we have lots of information just on the history of the college. Epstein gives me a sampling of some of the history department’s offerings, like ‘Birth of the Avant-Garde: Modern Poetry and Culture in France and Russia, 1870 to 1930.’

Humanities 94

Humanities Critical Thinking History Cultures 94

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 24, 2025

Also cut were fourth grade science in 2028, 12th grade science in 2032 and 12th grade history in 2030. But the vice chair, Martin West, a Harvard professor of education, said in an interview that the cuts were an effort to save the 2026 assessments. Science and history, though not mandated by Congress, are important to many.

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Government History High School Leadership 119

ED Surge

APRIL 21, 2025

As Head Start leaders wait for the White House to release its fiscal year 2026 budget, which is reported to include a proposal for the outright elimination of Head Start, rural providers reckon with the resulting consequences their communities will endure. But its worth noting the original planning committee did have a vision.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

history, and knew none of the literature her peers had read years earlier. Parents described how their children couldnt tell the difference between North and South America and, despite BIE regulations requiring Native culture in all curriculum areas, the students never had a class in Havasupai culture, history or language.

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Education Elementary School Government K-12 111

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 7, 2025

Congress requires that NAEP assess the reading and math abilities of fourth and eighth graders every two years, with the next administration scheduled to take place in the first quarter of 2026. But the timing was particularly worrisome as the digital test will be administered differently in 2026.

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Government Civics Research History 139

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 12, 2024

Walz also was behind Minnesota’s child tax credit increase in 2023, and successfully pushed forward a statewide paid family and medical leave law that takes effect in 2026. — In July 2023, Harris criticized a new history standard in Florida that said the experience of being enslaved had given people skills “for their personal benefit.”

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