ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

HOUSTON — On a Saturday morning in August 2023, a crowd gathered outside the Houston Independent School District administration building with protest signs in hand. The brutal, sticky heat of Texas summer already had people wiping sweat from their brows and handing out bottled water from ice-filled coolers. Teachers, parents and politicians took turns at the microphone, united in their criticism of the controversial state takeover of Texas’ largest school district.

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Anthropology News

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

A Reflection on the 2023 Ivan Karp Workshop in Museum Anthropology, organized by the Council for Museum Anthropology Spot-lit sweeping ceramic vases made by the artist Dame Magdalene Odundo were the centerpieces of the exhibition Magdalene Odundo: A Dialogue with Objects presented at the Gardiner Museum from October 2023 to April 2024. Organized by Sequoia Miller and Dame Odundo, the presentation was a transhistorical and transcultural journey through Odundo’s methodology and approach to makin

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Anthropology.net

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

For centuries, the narrative of Easter Island (Rapa Nui) has been steeped in stories of environmental collapse and societal downfall. The prevailing theory, widely believed by historians and ecologists alike, suggested that the ancient Rapa Nui people exhausted their natural resources to build massive stone statues, leading to a population crash. This view, largely based on reports from European explorers in the 18th century, painted a grim picture of ecological disaster as the island’s on

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Anthropology News

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

Meetings are where people come together in time and space. We meet to heal, to build, to resist, to govern, to share, to change. People who have experienced state torture while in prison often use meetings to share their stories with those who have no such experiences. In order to listen well to them, to be moved, we must meet in person. Anthropology has been quite slow to embrace Helen Schwartzman’s insight in The Meeting: Gatherings in Organizations and Communities (1989) that meetings offer a

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Sapiens

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

In a personal essay, a mixed-race and Native anthropologist draws strength from his ancestors. ✽ Who should I be today? I ask myself this question in the mirror of my undergraduate dorm room. Not aloud, of course. That would defeat the whole point. The answer isn’t for me. I leave for class early, saving enough time to sit outside by the anthropology building and watch people go by.

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Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

The post 5 Research-Backed Strategies to Help Learners Build Spatial Skills appeared first on Digital Promise.

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Living Geography

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

A nice reminder of the need to exercise your geographical lens on a daily basis from David Rogers I'm always reminded of Massey's writing when walking down the high street. I've heard at least five different languages, as well as the links around the world. We don't have to go far to see everyday geography and provide fieldwork opportunity pic.twitter.com/y556bjug3r — David Rogers (@davidErogers) September 8, 2024 Reminds me of an activity I do called GlobELY connected where students hunt out gl

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Living Geography

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

A new opportunity has been developed by the GA. The Scholar programme is an eight week online course. It is led by Becky Kitchen and the course fee includes a whole range of additional benefits including GA membership and delegate fees for the 2025 GA Conference at Oxford Brookes University. This eight-week online course is designed for geography trainees who haven’t previously studied a geography (or a similar) degree.

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Political Science Now

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

Misinformation and Support for Vigilantism: An Experiment in India and Pakistan By Sumitra Badrinathan , American University , Simon Chauchard , University Carlos III of Madrid and Institute Carlos 3-Juan March , and Niloufer Siddiqui , University at Albany—SUNY Vigilante violence, often targeting religious and sectarian minorities and preceded by unsubstantiated rumors, has taken the lives of many citizens in India and Pakistan in recent years.

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Anthropology News

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

We could hear pigs crying, but the ten-foot wall topped with electrified barbed wire made it impossible to see what was happening. Working together, a few of us stacked up large rocks to stand on, giving ourselves an elevated view. Yelling and cracking whips, workers were herding hundreds of pigs from a corral into a single-file line entering a slaughterhouse.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

College has become a new battleground in the culture wars, and it’s affecting where students enroll and what they’re learning. Divisive protests, police crackdowns, and a chilling backlash against free speech are among the reasons that a growing number of students say they don’t feel welcome on some college campuses. In this election year, we talk about the politics of higher education, how it affects you and how to pick a college where you’ll feel welcome.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

This is an edition of our Future of Learning newsletter. Sign up today to get it delivered straight to your inbox. What you need to know Hechinger’s executive editor, Nirvi Shah, joins us this week to share what she learned at the recent Moms for Liberty summit and how the organization’s targeted focus on transgender students helped lead to a temporary block to portions of President Joe Biden’s new Title IX regulations in some states.

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