The Hechinger Report

APRIL 24, 2023

Hirsch, who developed the curriculum used in these schools and whose 1987 book Cultural Literacy inspired the common core standards movement in American education. It’s geography; it’s history; it’s science; it’s cooking; it’s athletics, whatever that broad knowledge is about the world we live in.

Charter School 145

Charter School Geography Public School Private School 145

Geography Education

MAY 1, 2024

’ This article highlights great, everyday examples that shows how cultural patterns and processes change and why they matter. Places and cultures are proud of what they see as their accomplishments that are foundational to their heritage. But perhaps we should reconsider our ideas about so-called ‘national dishes.’

Heritage 130

Heritage Cultures Economics Tradition 130

Anthropology.net

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

The Role of Technology in Unveiling Ancient Secrets The sheer vastness of the Nazca Pampa, covering an area of about 400 square kilometers (154 square miles), presents significant challenges for traditional archaeological fieldwork. The plateau’s immense size, combined with centuries of weathering, has obscured many of the glyphs.

Archaeology 98

Archaeology Geography Humanities Cultures 98

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 2, 2023

Regardless of geography, nearly all school districts face chronic challenges finding teachers for math, science, special education, foreign languages and bilingual education. This is especially true in lower-income urban districts, where academic challenges are the greatest and most persistent.

K-12 113

K-12 Geography High School Economics 113

ED Surge

APRIL 15, 2024

This variation reflects the diverse historical and cultural priorities of different states. Additionally, social studies encompasses a wide range of disciplines, including history, geography, civics and economics, each with its own set of disciplinary practices. We are just having an old conversation with new tricks.

Social Studies 113

Social Studies Civics Pedagogy Geography 113

Political Science Now

JULY 11, 2024

Her research agenda focuses on political science pedagogy, campus-based civic engagement, and pop culture & politics. In addition to teaching traditional political science courses, she serves as campaign manager for the campus-wide voter mobilization program Vote Oswego and coordinator of SUNY Oswego’s broader civic engagement efforts.

Civic Engagement 68

Civic Engagement Teaching Civics Political Science 68

Anthropology 365

DECEMBER 3, 2024

How do environmental, historical, and cultural factors influence human-javelina relations in Texas? The introduction stresses the significance of understanding human-javelina encounters within their specific socio-ecological contexts through a blend of historical, ecological, and cultural analysis.

Anthropology 40

Anthropology Humanities Cultures Research 40

Dangerously Irrelevant

OCTOBER 13, 2015

communities of geography – Connected learning gallery walk – Interrogating our instruction: Are these connected lessons any good? traditional classroom ‘projects’ (how is PBL different from what we normally do in our classes?) – Interrogating our instruction: Are these elementary and middle school projects any good?

Leadership 107

Leadership Professional Development Geography Project-Based Learning 107

ED Surge

JUNE 1, 2022

I do hope that things like the socioeconomic divide and geography divide can potentially be bridged in education because of some of these new technologies like VR,” he says. The culture, feel, nostalgia—all the things that go with being a student.” They have a thousand ideas of what’s possible,” she says.

Educational Technology 145

Educational Technology Geography Education Tradition 145

Digital Promise

AUGUST 9, 2019

“Challenge Collaboratives” are a model of research-practice partnerships that engage educators and researchers across contexts and geographies to create outputs and outcomes that benefit schools nationwide. Traditional stories rely on 2D technologies like paper or images. Challenge Collaboratives: Next Gen R&D.

K-12 86

K-12 Geography Humanities Economics 86

The Hechinger Report

JULY 16, 2018

Narrow nationalist parties of various sorts are on the rise around the world, and here in the United States religion, ethnicity, geography and politics increasingly define us. In Myanmar, the government has defined its Muslim minority as non-citizens. More than one million international students came to the U.S.

Geography 75

Geography Community Engagement Economics Government 75

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 27, 2019

Despite the course’s critical importance, students in juvenile-justice facilities are 25 percentage points less likely to have access to Algebra 1 than their peers in traditional schools. And within juvenile-justice schools, Native American students are much less likely to have access to Algebra 1 than their peers.

Geography 74

Geography High School Tradition Cultures 74

Society for Classical Studies

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

(The American Classical League) Queer Families in the Ancient Mediterranean World (Lambda Classical Caucus) Organization, Display, and Transfer of Knowledge (ASGLE and ASP Joint Panel) New Directions in Papyrology and Epigraphy in the 21st Century (ASGLE and ASP J… Re-evaluating Turnus in Vergil and the Vergilian Tradition (The Vergilian Socie… Medical (..)

Geography 52

Geography Pedagogy Tradition Cultures 52

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Researchers say that’s because they feel out of step with campus culture. It’s a Mississippi tradition where politicians come to make speeches. Just since 2016, the proportion of rural students who enroll in college has dropped even more. They’re also more likely to drop out than their urban and suburban classmates.

Education 135

Education High School Government Economics 135

Living Geography

APRIL 27, 2024

As part of a current writing project I am exploring some of the indigenous knowledge that we may look to introduce into the geography curriculum. I need to say at the beginning that I am not an expert in this field, and this post is a collation of other people's ideas and drawn from research and reading.

Geography 52

Geography Tradition Humanities Teaching 52

All Things Pedagogical

JULY 10, 2024

I am joining you from the traditional land of the Haudenosauneee and Anishinaabe peoples, but I grew up on the traditional land of the Abitibiwini Aki and lived for 30 years on the traditional land of the Mississaugas of the Credit. MAI: Feminism & Visual Culture , (6). Chicago University Press. & Gagné, A.

Advocacy 40

Advocacy Pedagogy Geography Tradition 40

Anthropology News

APRIL 24, 2025

This local geography of caste is more visible to me because I, too, belong to an allegedly lower caste community. According to Mukul Sharma, within such upper caste perspectives, an Untouchable or outcasteconsidered as possessing lesser human dignitydoes not fit neatly on either side of the nature-culture binary.

Anthropology 64

Anthropology Economics Geography Cultures 64

Anthropology News

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

He initially chose to study geography, but soon switched to anthropology, impressed by the introductory lectures in that field of study given by the renowned Africanist André Köbben. From 1973 to 1985, Blok was professor of cultural anthropology at the Radboud University in Nijmegen, the Netherlands.

Anthropology 52

Anthropology Geography Tradition Cultures 52

ED Surge

MARCH 13, 2024

With diverse perspectives, backgrounds, geographies, identities and areas of expertise, these writers offered a wide range of important stories — each one unique in its own way. I’ve struggled to balance representing the history and culture of my school with my desire to support our ongoing and ever-more-pressing need to adapt.

Education 105

Education Elementary School EdTech Geography 105

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

It’s built around a skills-based model that prioritizes student mastery, extensive community outreach and a culture that views college enrollment as an expectation rather than a long shot. All the traditional method does is sort students. The results have been dramatic. Ocon looked for an alternative approach.

Geography 100

Geography High School Charter School Cultures 100

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

Teacher shortage is primarily a function of race and geography,” the authors wrote. These factors are situated squarely in enduring cultural, social, and historical issues of race in Mississippi.”. A lack of morale and cultural competency. Related: Former educators answer call to return to school.

Charter School 108

Charter School Economics Middle School Public School 108

Ben Newmark

OCTOBER 7, 2024

Hereditary status and privilege were no better than what we have now and would do great harm if we tried to reintroduce it, especially now the world is more secular than it was with religion less able to offer the traditional counter-narrative that regardless of rank all would be judged as equals by God after death.

Tradition 108

Tradition Geography History Humanities 108

Strange Maps

AUGUST 24, 2023

When in doubt, send a scout Al-Idrisi also consulted older geographic compendia, notably Ptolemy’s Geography , as well as Islamic works. Accompanying each map was a description of that area’s terrain, culture, politics, and economy — descriptions that became more succinct the further away the maps were from Sicily. m) long. .”

Heritage 52

Heritage Geography Archiving History 52

Anthropology News

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

What made La Cantina a key place in my investigation of Oaxaca’s queer geographies is that it was not initially established as a gay bar; rather, La Cantina became a popular gay bar after one of Oaxaca’s oldest gay bars, La Chinampa, closed during the COVID-19 pandemic. A manly man with a beard and big arms like those!”

Anthropology 52

Anthropology Geography Tradition Cultures 52

Geogramblings

DECEMBER 9, 2022

I, like so many Geography teachers, jumped on this as a learning opportunity. Since then, having been a member of groups such as Decolonising Geography, and having conversation with folks from a range of perspectives and backgrounds, I certainly would approach this differently. Homosexuality is seen as a violation of these norms.

Geography 52

Geography Social Justice Humanities Cultures 52

Anthropology for Beginners

APRIL 29, 2021

Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 Definition: Urban Anthropology examines the social organization of the city, looking at the kinds of social relationship and pattern of social life unique to cities and comparing their different cultural and historical contexts. Roberts 1978).

Anthropology 130

Anthropology Economics Geography Cultures 130

Geogramblings

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Our world has shrunk due to the spread and influence of popular culture and branding; we are more connected whether physically through higher speed extensive transportation or digitally through the internet. Not just between cultures and groups but also harmony within. The keyword for me is ‘harmony’. The keyword for me is ‘harmony’.

Human Rights 40

Human Rights Geography Controversial Topics Humanities 40

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 9, 2024

As the grandchild of Mexican immigrants, she didnt find her language or culture welcome in the school. Little Mexican girls see their culture celebrated on the walls of every classroom. Traditional bilingual education essentially lets students use their first language while they learn English. Related: Widen your perspective.

Elementary School 124

Elementary School Education K-12 History 124

Anthropology.net

FEBRUARY 15, 2025

How did their nomadic culture evolve? It provides a rare glimpse into the genetic legacies shaped by climate shifts, trade networks, and cultural interactions stretching back thousands of years. ” This genetic variation aligns with linguistic and cultural differences among Fulani groups. Where did they come from?

History 113

History Ancestry Geography K-12 113

Anthropology.net

MAY 12, 2025

A genomic map layered not only with centuries of migrations and admixture, but also with lessons for how ancestry—understood through the language of DNA—shapes and is shaped by human history, cultural geography, and inequality. King Jordan. ” This granular structure offers more than genealogical trivia.

Ancestry 75

Ancestry Geography Archiving Archaeology 75

Sapiens

DECEMBER 10, 2024

An anthropologist takes a critical eye to a long-running holiday tradition: a U.S. To understand Operation Christmas Drop, it helps to have some history and geography. The region had, and still has, a rich cultural heritage: For instance, today eight Native languages are spoken in FSM alone.

Heritage 106

Heritage Archiving History Geography 106

TCI

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

Active learning can lead to increased student performance, reduced failure rates, and deeper critical thinking, but it may be hard to know where to start, especially if youre used to traditional lecture-based instruction. Traditional lecture-based teaching often places all the responsibility on the educator, leading to exhaustion.

Classroom Management 52

Classroom Management Civics Geography Critical Thinking 52

ED Surge

JANUARY 6, 2025

Its open to all disciplines, geographies, periods, methodologies, authors, and audiences across the humanities. Ortiz, directs the MA in Engaged and Public Humanities Program at Georgetown University, where hes a professor of Latinx literatures and cultures. Sarah Nuttall One of the journals editors, Ricardo L. and elsewhere.

Humanities 145

Humanities Oral History Archiving Pedagogy 145