ED Surge
JANUARY 23, 2025
Danielle Robinson desperately wants to help math teachers, but its a tough job. An instructional coach for K-5 math teachers in Milwaukee Public Schools in Wisconsin, Robinson can find herself zipping around several of the schools she works with in the city to assist teachers, give workshops or try to help vice principals grasp the nuances of math instruction.
Women's History Network
JANUARY 23, 2025
First Call for Papers Womens History Network 33rd Annual Conference Online via Zoom Thursday 4 & Friday 5 September 2025 Hidden in Plain Sight: Women in Archives, Libraries, Museums and Personal Collections.
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ED Surge
JANUARY 23, 2025
Recent federal data on school enrollment adds more detail to the picture we have about falling numbers of students in the nations public K-12 classrooms. Most of the countrys 100 largest districts by enrollment have seen declines since the 2019-20 school year. The National Center for Education Statistics released its data for 2023-24 in December. Nine out of the 10 biggest districts including New York City, Los Angeles and Miami-Dade have seen enrollment dip by up to 13 percent compared to the
Anthropology.net
JANUARY 23, 2025
Between 45,000 and 29,000 years ago, early human activity not only altered landscapes but also reshaped the complex web of interactions between scavengers and prey. A recent study, published in Quaternary Science Reviews 1 , suggests that the hunting behaviors of early Homo sapiens fundamentally changed the composition of scavenger guilds across Europe.
Living Geography
JANUARY 23, 2025
The third and final episode in Simon Schama's new series explores landscape. The whole series is as relevant to geographers as it is to social and cultural historians. The third episode is described as follows: Simon Schama explores the work of artists who have taken inspiration from the British landscape, and expressed how vital it is to people's sense of who they are.
Anthropology.net
JANUARY 23, 2025
For decades, scientists have studied the decline and eventual disappearance of Neanderthals, our closest extinct relatives. A recent study published in Scientific Reports 1 offers a unique perspective, focusing on the genetic makeup of their red blood cells. The research suggests that a rare blood group found in Neanderthals, linked to potential fatal complications in newborns, might have contributed to their downfall.
Becoming a History Teacher
JANUARY 23, 2025
Photo by Victoria Strelka_ph on Pexels.com One of the first blogs I wrote for the mentors of beginning teachers explored why mentees find changing teaching placements so hard. This blog contextualised the feelings that beginning teachers (although this is also true of more experienced teachers) can have when beginning roles in new school settings. It compared the experience to that of a toddlers shape-sorter, with the teacher represented by the blocks being pushed into the school-shaped spaces.
Social Studies Network brings together the best content for social studies educators from the widest variety of thought leaders.
Digital Promise
JANUARY 23, 2025
The post How One District Developed an Advanced Degree Equivalency with Micro-credentials appeared first on Digital Promise.
Anthropology News
JANUARY 23, 2025
In a country full of negative perceptions about China, Jehovahs Witnesses persist in reaching out to Chinese communitiesby learning to conduct church services in Chinese. Under the 1996 constitution, Zambia officially became a Christian nation, with 95.5 percent of the population being Christian. The Jehovahs Witnesses have enjoyed remarkable evangelical success in Zambia, and more than 3,000 Jehovahs Witness congregations have been established in the country since 1911.
Political Science Now
JANUARY 23, 2025
Deep Waters: Flooding and the Climate of Suffering in Nigeria By Daniel E. Agbiboa , Harvard University This article focuses on the everyday emotions of the populations impacted by the 2022 flood in Nigeria by exploring the affectivities embodied in flooding and the unfurlings of political emotions and agency in these dire circumstances. By foregrounding the everyday emotions of flooding, I address a subject that too often is overlooked in political science, too often shunted to the margins of p
Anthropology News
JANUARY 23, 2025
(1959 2024) Credit: Courtesy of the Grupo A Hora Jorge Luiz da Cunha Jorge Luiz da Cunha, a Brazilian historian and one of the leading authorities on the historiography of German immigration in Brazil, passed away on September 23, 2024, at the age of 65, at the Hospital Santa Cruz in Santa Cruz do Sul, due to a neurological illness discovered earlier in the year.
Life and Landscapes
JANUARY 23, 2025
A video of Jimmy Cornelison, sixth generation Cornelison family potter, part one. At the 200 year old Bybee Pottery Barn in Bybee, Kentucky. December, 2021.
Anthropology News
JANUARY 23, 2025
1933-2024 Credit: Penny de los Santos Sally McLendon (1933-2024) Sally McLendon was an American scholar of Indigenous languages, cultures, and histories in North America, with a special focus on the Indigenous languages and communities of Northern California. She was part of a pioneering generation of women academics who helped open the fields of anthropology, linguistics, and Native American Studies to women and Indigenous scholars.
Living Geography
JANUARY 23, 2025
Robert MacFarlane has a new book out in April. Robert is doing an event for Topping Books - my local independent bookshop. This event would be articularly of interest to those who are within a reasonable distance of Ely. I am very much looking forward to getting my hands on a copy of the book.
Steven V. Miller
JANUARY 23, 2025
I Have Other Musings on This That I Want My Students to Read Spiritually, this post is identical to one more focused on creating dyad- or state-year data for analyses of international conflict. {peacesciencer} talks a little bit about this as well. Likewise, Im assuming some familiarity with state classification systems, which I talk about a bit on my blog and for {peacesciencer}.
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