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A Close Look at Competency-Based Learning

Cult of Pedagogy

APRIL 13, 2025

In schools that belong to the MTC, like Messer’s school, students demonstrate learning through artifacts evidence of their skills and understanding that are collected across content areas. I’ll reassess your research artifact. So students see that progression of skills in lots of different content connections.

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OPINION: As the coronavirus drives students apart, one college devises a course to keep them together

The Hechinger Report

JULY 5, 2020

The lesson featured two art historians, a microbiologist, a writing specialist, the library director and me, a historian in sports studies. Along with weekly discussions, we crafted assignments to help students understand their roles in creating what will be the history of this moment.

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OPINION: Too many students just aren’t interested in what is being taught

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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Ancient Genomes from South Africa Reveal Remarkable Genetic Continuity

Anthropology.net

OCTOBER 8, 2024

The Oakhurst rock shelter, nestled in the cliffs of South Africa’s southern coast, has long been a focal point for archaeologists due to its wealth of artifacts and human remains. The Oakhurst site, which dates back over 12,000 years, provides a unique opportunity to explore southern Africa's genetic and cultural history.

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Teaching for Black Lives Study Groups

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.

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Throwback Thursday: Primary sources and personal stories = awesome sauce

History Tech

OCTOBER 10, 2024

I got the chance this week to chat a bit with my kids – both now in Minnesota. And during the convo with the youngest, we ended up talking about a letter written by a Norwegian ski instructor in 1943. The guy was teaching US and Canadian special ops guys to ski as part of […]

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How Virtual Reality Is Restoring Liberia’s Culture

Sapiens

APRIL 23, 2025

Traveling Treasures is a new project led by a team of anthropologists that puts Liberians directly in touch with their dispersed cultural heritage through immersive technologies designed to bridge continents and histories. has a long, often poorly documented history. The transfer of Liberian objects to the U.S.

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Alt history: What if the U.S. lost a World War?

Strange Maps

JULY 27, 2023

Credit : Library of Congress / Public domain) By the late 1930s, the question was no longer whether a Second World War would break out, but when — and who would be drawn into it. Although the map describes a future that never happened, maybe it did have an impact on the things to come — if only on the future of dystopian alt-history fiction.

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How New Orleans Food Culture Shaped My View of School Lunches

ED Surge

JULY 14, 2023

When my class wrote a book last year about artifacts of New Orleans culture and what they mean to them, a third of the class wrote about food. I picked what I could afford from a fluorescently lit food court, ate alone between classes and trips to the library, and gave nutrition little thought.

Cultures

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Pulling reservation schools back from the brink

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 9, 2016

In 1978, just a few years before Helgeson’s birth, the American Indian Religious Freedom Act became law, finally affirming the right of country’s indigenous people to access sacred sites, worship in traditional ceremonies and use materials they consider sacred artifacts, like eagle bones, that are restricted to non-Indians.

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Why Grammar Instruction Stinks, and How We Can Change That

Cult of Pedagogy

MARCH 30, 2025

There is a very long and very clear history of scholarship that shows that many common approaches have minimal or no effect on student writing growth, and it is so widely disliked by students and ignored by many teachers that Brock Haussamen (2003) famously called it the skunk at the garden party of the language arts (p. Come back for more.

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Yemen: A Genetic Crossroads of Ancient Humanity

Anthropology.net

JANUARY 4, 2025

While much attention has been paid to early human dispersals out of Africa, Yemen’s role in shaping human history remains understudied. Figure was created using the Python libraries matplotlib and basemap using the basemap method ‘shadedrelie (URL: [link] Version: 1.3.2.). It shows Yemen governorates (black borders).

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The Battle to Protect Archaeological Sites in the West Bank

Sapiens

JANUARY 22, 2025

Trekking for thousands of hours through these sites, I have seen the destruction of critical remnants of ancient structures, the obliteration of numerous mosaic pavements and subterranean rock-cut features, and the demolition of incalculable layers of cultural history.

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A Close Look at Competency-Based Learning

OPINION: As the coronavirus drives students apart, one college devises a course to keep them together

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OPINION: Too many students just aren’t interested in what is being taught

Ancient Genomes from South Africa Reveal Remarkable Genetic Continuity

Teaching for Black Lives Study Groups

Throwback Thursday: Primary sources and personal stories = awesome sauce

How Virtual Reality Is Restoring Liberia’s Culture

Alt history: What if the U.S. lost a World War?

How New Orleans Food Culture Shaped My View of School Lunches

Pulling reservation schools back from the brink

Why Grammar Instruction Stinks, and How We Can Change That

Yemen: A Genetic Crossroads of Ancient Humanity

The Battle to Protect Archaeological Sites in the West Bank

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