Cult of Pedagogy
OCTOBER 14, 2024
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ED Surge
OCTOBER 14, 2024
On a bright, sunny day, a group of first-graders eagerly begins a science investigation called “Shadow Town.” The teacher gathers them in a circle and asks, “What causes shadows?” It’s a good question. The students are all familiar with shadows, have had fun with them and no doubt played shadow puppets, but that’s different from being able to explain them.
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Anthropology.net
OCTOBER 14, 2024
Archaeological discoveries in East Timor’s Laili rock shelter have unveiled evidence 1 of ancient human habitation dating back approximately 44,000 years. This finding, led by an international team of archaeologists, contributes significantly to understanding the migration and adaptation patterns of early humans in Southeast Asia. The evidence gathered from stone tools, animal bones, and sediment analysis paints a picture of human life in this region over 35,000 years before the constructi
Life and Landscapes
OCTOBER 14, 2024
“Early one morning, the children grabbed their utility belts and hurried down the creek to the old quarry. Flint flakes were to be the object of their mission. And the hunt for the past enabled its reliving. They discover paw prints in the cracked mud, and track the animal while continuing their search for pieces of flint. But this is another human, and the game is on!
Society for Classical Studies
OCTOBER 14, 2024
CFP: A Memory More Powerful than Lethe’s Shores: New Approaches to Lucan’s Bellum Civile kskordal Mon, 10/14/2024 - 08:38 Image Call for Papers: “A Memory More Powerful than Lethe’s Shores: New Approaches to Lucan’s Bellum Civile ” University of California, Davis May 15 and 16, 2025 In the third book of Lucan’s Bellum Civile , Pompey is visited in a dream by a vision of his deceased wife.
Political Science Now
OCTOBER 14, 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 Saad Gulzar, Durgesh Pathak, Sarah Thompson, and Aliz Tóth, “Can Party Elites Shape the Rank and File? Evidence from a Recruitment Campaign in India” Political parties, often constrained by limited financial resources, must find creative ways to recruit activists t
Society for Classical Studies
OCTOBER 14, 2024
CFP: ISAW Graduate Student Conference: Itinerancy and Agency across the Ancient World kskordal Mon, 10/14/2024 - 08:54 Image ISAW Graduate Student Conference Itinerancy and Agency across the Ancient World March 13-14th, 2025 Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, New York University Keynote address by incoming ISAW Director Greg Woolf, “ Makers and Stayers in Mediterranean cultural change: configurations of collaboration in the 1st millennium CE.
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Passion for Social Studies
OCTOBER 14, 2024
Tuesday, November 5th is quickly approaching! So, students will see more political ads and commercials than ever. While some years involve quieter elections, this is definitely not one of them. There are a lot of emotions, discussions, and debates over who will help the United States support its citizens and pay off debt. So, students must have lessons that focus on teaching the election.
The Hechinger Report
OCTOBER 14, 2024
View of the Tennessee State Capitol, where lawmakers were the first in the nation to pass a law in 2014 to make community college tuition free for future high school graduates. Credit: Joe Sohm/Visions of America/Universal Images Group via Getty Images The free community college movement effectively began in 2014 when Republican Gov. Bill Haslam of Tennessee signed the Tennessee Promise Scholarship Act, which offered the state’s high school graduates free tuition to attend any two-year public co
ED Surge
OCTOBER 14, 2024
When Eve, a mother in Colorado, received a legal settlement, she found herself suddenly flush. She drove over to the office of Eric Dearing, who was working with her as a family advocate for Head Start, and she gave him a shirt. Even though the shirt wasn’t his style, and he never wore it, he kept it in the closet. That was one of the few times that he’d seen a family, through “pure luck,” get a spike in income.
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