Sapiens

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

The Roti Collective, a community-based research project, explores the layered histories that brought a flatbread from the Indian subcontinent around the world. In Calcutta on Your Plate , her book on Bengali cuisine and gastronomic history, she points out the absence of roti in Bengali meals until the mid-20th century.

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TeachThought

AUGUST 20, 2024

Research about cognitively demanding skills provides formal academic content that we can extend to less formal settings, including K-12 classrooms. 12(2), Article 16. Critical thinking is an ongoing process emphasizing the fluid and continued interpretation of information rather than the formation of static beliefs and opinions.

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Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 4, 2024

By analyzing one million words of Akkadian cuneiform, researchers unearthed fascinating connections between emotional states and specific body parts, offering fresh insights into human emotional experience through time. However, researchers caution that linguistic descriptions alone may not capture the full scope of emotional experience.

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A Principal's Reflections

JUNE 15, 2011

As the summer break quickly approaches in the Northeast I have come across various articles focusing on summer learning loss and the negative impact that time off has on students. In 2010 Time Magazine published an article that clearly articulated The Case Against Summer Vacation.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 11, 2020

This 1959 book, known as the Conant Report, is the source of the 250-to-1 student-to-counselor ratio recommendation, according historical research conducted by Harvard graduate student Tara Nicola. The History of the Nationally Recommended Student-to-Counselor Ratio,” when I was writing another story on the growth in school counselors.

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Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 4, 2024

The Study of Ancient Alaskan Canids To explore this complex history, a team of archaeologists led by François Lanoë from the University of Arizona analyzed 111 sets of bones from canids unearthed at archaeological sites across interior Alaska. Selected terminal Pleistocene/Early Holocene specimens ( C. lupus/familiaris ).

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Sapiens

APRIL 9, 2025

This article was originally published at Knowable Magazine and has been republished under Creative Commons. For most of the history of linguistics, scholars have tended to focus on written language, in large part because thats what they had records of. Utterances like um, wow, and mm-hmm arent garbage, they keep conversations flowing.

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Teaching American History

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

A Conversation with Sonja Czarnecki Sonja Czarnecki, 2022 MAHG Graduate “In order to understand history, you have to do history,” Sonja Czarnecki insists. To give students insight into the work of historians, Czarnecki assigns research projects in all of the courses she teaches at Bishop Seabury Academy in Lawrence, Kansas.

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Moler's Musing

MARCH 1, 2025

The combination of these strategies helped students interact with history in meaningful ways while reinforcing critical thinking and writingexactly the kind of skills they need as we approach testing season. They have to use key terms and context clues to research. What does this headline tell us about how history is remembered?

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Sapiens

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

New archaeological research reveals insights into the first-known seafarers to brave ocean crossings from Asia to the Pacific Islands more than 50,000 years ago. This article was originally published at The Conversation and has been republished under Creative Commons. ✽

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Strange Maps

JANUARY 22, 2025

According to the researchers, this is historys first large-scale pollution event from industrial activities, and it happened a millennium and a half before the Industrial Revolution. To produce one ounce (28 grams) of silver, researchers calculated that Roman metallurgists would need to produce some 10,000 ounces (283 kilos) of lead.

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A Principal's Reflections

FEBRUARY 26, 2017

The purposeful use of technology can innovate assessment, transform time frames around learning, increase collaboration, enable learning about information and research thanks to unprecedented access, and provide a level of student ownership like never before. These are all outcomes that any educator would (or should) openly embrace.

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Anthropology 365

APRIL 7, 2025

Gizomodo titles their article on the topic “In a Historic First, Scientists Have Resurrected the Dire WolfSort Of.” ” New Scientist is even more bull, titling their article simply, “No, the dire wolf has not been brought back from extinction.”

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A Principal's Reflections

MARCH 7, 2011

In an article for SEEN Magazine Dr. Daggett provides some nice working definitions for these two terms: Rigor - Academic rigor refers to learning in which students demonstrate a thorough in-depth mastery of challenging tasks to develop cognitive skills through reflective thought, analysis, problem solving, evaluation or creativity.

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ED Surge

JULY 25, 2023

It was a podcast version of the BBC radio show In Our Time, where a panel of academics discussed the history of ideas. To research the volume, he interviewed 101 podcasters in education, asking them about their motivations and views on the craft. Let's let people in. What do you think of that take?

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Sapiens

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

This article was originally published at The Conversation and has been republished under Creative Commons. leading research excavations, the Durotriges project of the University of Bournemouth. While some of the press coverage about the new research portrayed the findings as a surprise, archaeologists were far from shocked.

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Anthropology News

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Courses in history, psychology, sociology, and political science are often part of the core curricula in journalism programs,” writes Paula Horvath in Journalism & Mass Communication Educator. I reached out to the authors of these articles and other scholars from that time to ask just that. What happened?

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 7, 2024

Over time, I pieced together the idea that my students would benefit most from a teaching model that emphasized shared readings of challenging works of literature; memorization of poetry; explicit grammar instruction; contextual knowledge, including history; and teacher direction — not time practicing skills. That shouldn’t be surprising.

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Political Science Now

MAY 13, 2024

In the APSA Public Scholarship Program, graduate students in political science produce summaries of new research in the American Political Science Review. This piece, written by Komal Preet Kaur , covers the new article by Nicholas Haas and Emmy Lindstam, My History or Our History? My History or Our History?

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 1, 2024

Readers reacted, particularly teachers who were angry about how researchers characterized them as going “rogue” for pulling together their own resources. After reading Jill’s article, I decided to dig a little deeper and speak to some of those teachers.

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Teaching Anthropology

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

How might we recognise and engage with understandings of trauma, and what implications might this have for anthropological research and teaching? This special issue aims to draw together insights for deploying these findings in research and teaching with particular attention to reducing possibilities of harm.

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Society for Classical Studies

DECEMBER 2, 2024

This issue is still avidly researched and debated by scholars of different fields. The Fifth Interdisciplinary Conference is an opportunity for Polish and international speakers, considering and analyzing the issue from a variety of perspectives, to exchange research experience.

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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

When I taught United States history at a high school in New York City, I had a discussion with my students about finding sources for their upcoming research projects. Another strategy identified by researchers is lateral reading , or opening multiple tabs to check source information, as an effective way to evaluate online sources.

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Thrive in Grade Five

JUNE 30, 2019

A printable transcript of the broadcast is available if you want students to use it for research or ELA work. You’ll notice that the articles cover current events but they also mix in some history-themed articles. Another cool thing about this site is that you can assign articles to Google Classroom.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 17, 2021

Researchers at the American Institutes for Research, a nonprofit research organization, are digging into whether kids are reading less — perhaps distracted by their digital devices. But when the researchers broke the data down by state, the neat correlation between reading and comprehension fell apart.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 12, 2022

The best class I ever taught centered on the history of Washington, D.C. I was so excited to teach this class, I spent the summer collecting articles and artifacts from the local library and historical society. They learned about the history of their neighborhoods and the origins of the music they listened to.

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ED Surge

MARCH 23, 2023

This semester, the Community College of Aurora rolled out the first microcredentials in its history. Most were designed to educate clergy, according to research by Phillip R. Prior to the signing of the Declaration of Independence in 1776, nine institutions of higher learning known as the Colonial Colleges were established.

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Anthropology News

DECEMBER 27, 2024

As anthropologists, we study what we care about, making research an intimate undertaking. Here, Dr. Mecca Howe and Ariana Gunderson discuss the effects of our food research on our personal relationships with food, while considering the role of our eating choices within the food system and our research for the communities we study.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 2, 2017

This article originally appeared on Usable Knowledge from the Harvard Graduate School of Education. But these strategies aren’t always fully effective, according to literacy researcher Paola Uccelli. Uccelli’s research explores a new approach. Read the original version here. When Connecting Words are Unfamiliar.

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Anthropology News

JUNE 27, 2024

Christopher Lowman built a writing course for the era of ChatGPT, introducing anthropology majors to Large Language Models (LLMs) and their ability to prompt research topics and improve writing while teaching students to recognize AI’s limitations. Ian Straughn worked with students in an introductory archaeology course using Humata.ai

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

History class, approached me after the White House threatened to revoke temporary protected status (TPS) for immigrants from El Salvador. Armed with full knowledge of the issue, they dove into the research, recorded public service announcements and canvassed their community for advocates.

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Digital Promise

JUNE 30, 2016

This article originally appeared on Edutopia. Technology integration can be one of the most challenging topics to find quality research on. Edutopia’s tech integration review explores some of the vast body of research out there and helps you navigate useful results. What Is Successful Technology Integration?

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Teaching American History

MARCH 4, 2025

We are hosting seminars on a variety of topics in American history and politics. Native American Leadership, Identity, and Resistance at Mashantucket Pequot Museum & Research Center in Mashantucket, CT. Native American Leadership, Identity, and Resistance at Mashantucket Pequot Museum & Research Center in Mashantucket, CT.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 26, 2021

When we abruptly transitioned online in March 2020 because of the coronavirus pandemic, I thought the classes I teach at my flagship research university would resume in person in a matter of weeks — and for sure by the fall semester. I was naïve. I got to wondering, were such expenses a shared reality?

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Anthropology.net

JULY 6, 2024

Recent research 1 suggests a compelling answer. The Role of Human Hunting Researchers from the Danish National Research Foundation's Center for Ecological Dynamics in a Novel Biosphere (ECONOVO) at Aarhus University have concluded that human hunting played a decisive role in these extinctions.

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Studies Weekly

MAY 2, 2024

A Teacher’s Guide to Celebrating Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month May 2, 2024 • Studies Weekly Diverse perspectives strengthen education, according to Heather Singmaster’s EdWeek article from November 2018. They broaden students’ view of history and teach them to respect people from different cultures.

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Leah Cleary

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Check this one out for AP World History Unit 6: Take a moment if you need to, but please, come back to me. Generate Lesson Summaries Faster Save prep time by using Notebook LM to create student-friendly summaries of textbook chapters, articles, or curriculum documents. But here’s what’s really cool (and a little scary).

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