ED Surge

OCTOBER 17, 2024

One of Shane Woods’ favorite memories as executive director of Girlstart, a nonprofit that aims to empower girls in the sciences, was as a participant taking her own goddaughter to the organization’s back-to-school extravaganza. Parsing education data into snack-sized servings. They zipped through activities with rockets and robots, and Woods asked her goddaughter — named Sailor — what she thought of it all when they were heading home.

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Sapiens

OCTOBER 17, 2024

As toxic polarization deepens in the U.S., some global conflict prevention experts are now addressing political violence at home. An anthropologist shares three key insights from a community action program in Wisconsin. ✽ “So, what is one thing that you want Wisconsinites to know or do around the upcoming election?” the moderator asks. I’m in a conference room in a Civil War museum in Kenosha, Wisconsin, attending a keynote panel about preventing violence in the lead-up to the U.S. election in N

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 17, 2024

This story was produced by Grist and reprinted with permission. Three years ago, Erin Primer had an idea for a new summer program for her school district: She wanted students to learn about where their food comes from. Primer, who has worked in student nutrition within California’s public school system for 10 years, applied for grant funding from the state to kick off the curriculum, and got it.

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Strange Maps

OCTOBER 17, 2024

A rising tide, in the phrase popularized by JFK, lifts all boats. It’s a vivid allegory for the president’s preferred path to general prosperity. But its sunny optimism hides a more sinister aspect of the ebb and flow of the open seas. If you’re caught out on the foreshore of a place where the difference between low and high water is big enough to drown you — and you’re boatless and on foot — a rising tide can turn menacing, even deadly.

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Education 88

Anthropology.net

OCTOBER 17, 2024

A groundbreaking genetic study led by Jonghyun Kim and Jun Ohashi at the University of Tokyo has unveiled new insights into the immigration patterns that shaped Japan’s population during the Yayoi (3000 BCE - 300 CE) and Kofun periods (300 - 538 CE). Through the analysis of a complete genome from an individual of the Yayoi period, researchers have provided evidence linking the majority of ancient immigrants to the Japanese Archipelago directly to the Korean Peninsula.

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Institute for Citizens & Scholars

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Raj Vinnakota talks with Sharon McMahon, "America's Government Teacher," about her new book, The Small and The Mighty, combatting misinformation online, and the value of conversations across differences.

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Moler's Musing

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Brain-Book-Buddy-Boss-Link If you’re anything like me, you’re always on the lookout for strategies that actually work in the classroom—ones that not only engage students but also lead to real results. On my way to school last week, I tuned into Gene Tavernetti’s podcast, Better Teaching: Only Stuff That Works , where he had Blake Harvard as a guest.

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Women's History Network

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Hello Can you please add an event to celebrate a book launch at the Women’s Library at LSE?

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Life and Landscapes

OCTOBER 17, 2024

The Dawn of Dusk is a creative combination of the “fiction science” and “magic realism” writings of Ronald R. Van Stockum, Jr., and the lifetime of theatrical production on stages all over the country by Dr. Jack Wann. These three One-Act plays will transform your performance space into other worlds, often surreal, but always provocative and exciting.

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Humanities 52

Political Science Now

OCTOBER 17, 2024

What Is It Like To Be a Partisan? Measures of Partisanship and Its Value for Democracy By Kevin J. Elliott , Yale University What is it like to be a partisan? How do individuals experience their relationship to political parties? The most common answer today, both in popular discourse and much political science, is identity , but many individuals do not identify with parties.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Imagine sending your 4-year-old to preschool knowing they will spend nearly all day happily traipsing through the woods, climbing trees and resting in hammocks. Imagine that they also take part in what most of us would view as risky activities for a preschooler, like building fires and using knives to whittle figures out of sticks. For children growing up in Norway, this is a daily reality in the country’s “barnehagen”: child care programs designed for children ages 1 through 6.

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