The Hechinger Report

MARCH 6, 2024

Our colleague at The Hechinger Report, Fazil Khan, died February 23. Please consider donating to a fund in his name that will support a data journalism internship at Hechinger. Consider this a head’s up: This week’s newsletter is about poop. Specifically, potty training. In January, Utah Rep. Doug Welton introduced a bill that would require kindergarten students be potty trained before parents enroll them in school.

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ED Surge

MARCH 6, 2024

For years, I’ve worked with young people during one of the most significant transitions of their lives. After 12 years of compulsory schooling, they approach the edge of the nest — and many feel unprepared, realizing they are about to lose the comfort of seeing their friends every day, the support of trusted adults outside their families and the predictability of a daily school schedule.

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Digital Promise

MARCH 6, 2024

The post How These Teachers Have Fostered Design Thinking, Creativity, and Innovation appeared first on Digital Promise.

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ED Surge

MARCH 6, 2024

When Adriana Cervantes-González started school in California as a child, it was at a time when state policy was determined to get all English-learning students proficient in the language within one year. That meant that bilingual education was out, in favor of English immersion. Parsing education data into snack-sized servings. As a kindergartener who spoke only Spanish, Cervantes-González had a part-time bilingual aide in her otherwise English-only classroom.

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ShortCutsTV

MARCH 6, 2024

This new PowerPoint Presentation introduces students to some (okay, 9) of Sociology’s founders, from the Big Three of Marx, Durkheim and Weber to lesser-known, but equally important in their own way, names such as Harriet Martineau and William Du Bois.

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Heinemann Blog

MARCH 6, 2024

An activity with heart shaped paper, seeded with wildflowers, for writing poems of hope.

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Living Geography

MARCH 6, 2024

A new article in the TES from Steve Brace. It explores the persistence of some topics in the school curriculum, instead of exploring some of the newer curriculum thinking and relevant topics for an age of climate breakdown. I first heard the term being used by John Morgan at a seminar at the Institute of Education, although I had explored this idea in 2007-8 when I worked as one of the CfBT Regional advisors at the time of a new curriculum, and put together a presentation of such case studies (w

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Studies Weekly

MARCH 6, 2024

Ways to Increase Student Memory Power Mar. 6, 2024 • By Studies Weekly Every teacher knows the sheer joy that students take in becoming experts on their favorite topics! From dinosaurs to planets and everything in between, if they are interested, they have a remarkable ability to retain and remember a huge amount of information. What if we could harness this enthusiasm to encourage this type of interest and memory power in other school topics?

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Political Science Now

MARCH 6, 2024

The American Political Science Association is pleased to announce the Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant (DDRIG) Awardees for 2023. The APSA DDRIG program provides support to enhance and improve the conduct of doctoral dissertation research in political science. Awards support basic research which is theoretically derived and empirically oriented.

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O-Level Geography

MARCH 6, 2024

Amazing innovation in creating water from air. Water is an essential resource and as mentioned in the article half of Kenya population suffer from water shortage and 10000 people died yearly because of water shortage. How can water be created from air? Why is creating water important in countries such as Kenya? How will water availability affect people?

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Political Science Now

MARCH 6, 2024

Join students, educators, policymakers, and leaders in the public and private sectors, during Civic Learning Week , March 11–15, 2024, to highlight and further energize the movement for civic education in states and communities across the nation. Goals of Civic Learning Week Providing elementary and secondary school students with positive and engaging civic learning opportunities; Engaging the public around the importance of civic learning and elevating it as a national priority; Providi

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Anthropology.net

MARCH 6, 2024

Recent research from Binghamton University reveals a groundbreaking application of ancient DNA extraction techniques in forensic anthropology. Originally designed for studying woolly mammoths and Neanderthals, these methods can now potentially identify badly burned human remains. Published in the Journal of Forensic Sciences 1 , the study explores the systematic degradation of DNA across various temperature ranges, crucial for effective identification processes.

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Political Science Now

MARCH 6, 2024

Contested Killings: The Mobilizing Effects of Community Contact with Police Violence By Kevin T. Morris , Brennan Center for Justice and Kelsey Shoub , University of Massachusetts, Recently, we have witnessed the politicizing effects of police killings in the United States. This project asks how such killings might (de)mobilize voters at the local level.

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Political Science Government 48

Anthropology.net

MARCH 6, 2024

Unveiling Early Hominin Technological Complexity A groundbreaking study led by Prof. Pei Shuwen and Prof. Ignacio de la Torre sheds light on the tool-making abilities of hominins in East Asia. Published in PNAS 1 , the research suggests that hominins in the Nihewan basin of China possessed advanced knapping abilities comparable to Mode 2 technological features as early as 1.1 million years ago (Ma), challenging previous timelines.

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Life and Landscapes

MARCH 6, 2024

“The Horsefly” a short, Short Story by Reggie Van Stockum, read by the author as part of “The New Reggie Van Stockum Show” at Studio 223, Shelbyville, Kentucky on March 1,2024. “Everywhere I Go,” a new tune on my tenor banjo, sung in “The “New Reggie Van Stockum Show” at Studio 223 in Shelbyville, Kentucky, on March 1, 2024. www.vanstockum.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 6, 2024

DERRY TOWNSHIP, Pa. — On a bright fall morning last year, a shimmering, human-sized Hershey’s Kiss with bright blue eyes greeted delighted children and their parents outside of the first early childhood education center launched by the Catherine Hershey Schools for Early Learning. Inside the new nearly 51,000-square-foot facility, built to accommodate 150 students, children funneled into their bright, well-stocked classrooms.

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