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Mentorship in motion: Student perceptions of experiential learning in forensic anthropology

Teaching Anthropology

Cristina Abbatangelo, Brendan Newton, Ellie Wan, University of Toronto, Canada The experiential learning course FSC485: Professional Opportunity in Forensic Science at the University of Toronto Mississauga (UTM) provides upper-year students a unique opportunity to engage in self-directed professional forensic experiences that enhance their career readiness.

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From Her Perch at the Front Desk, This School Staffer Helps Kids Show Up Each Day

ED Surge

Nancy Muoz is on her second act this time, in a school and she feels shes finally where she belongs. After a long career working in health care, the pandemic led her to seek a new opportunity. She found it in the form of an operations coordinator role inside a middle school in Camden, New Jersey. In that position, Muoz sits at the front desk what she calls the face of the house answering phone calls, sending emails, receiving visitors.

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2024 Mary-Kay Gamel Outreach Prize

Society for Classical Studies

2024 Mary-Kay Gamel Outreach Prize kskordal Mon, 03/10/2025 - 08:52 Image Following the unanimous recommendation of the Outreach Prizes Committee, we wish to deliver the exciting news that Candida R. Moss has been awarded the 2024 Mary-Kay Gamel Outreach Prize by the SCS. Dr. Moss is the Edward Cadbury Professor of Theology at the University of Birmingham, but is also a public intellectual who has written as a columnist for The Daily Beast and is most recently the author of Gods Ghostwriters: En

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How Large Print Books Create a ‘Virtuous Cycle’ for All Readers

ED Surge

Americas schools are facing a crisis in reading achievement. The recently released National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) found that only 31 percent of 4th graders and 30 percent of 8th graders were reading at or above a proficient level. Dr. Julie A. Evans, the CEO of education nonprofit Project Tomorrow , has found that educators across the country are grappling with the intertwined challenges of declining student engagement and persistent social-emotional issues.

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A Window Into the Early Epigravettian: Grotta della Lea and Italy’s Final Ice Age Hunters

Anthropology.net

Nestled within the limestone cliffs of Uluzzo Bay in southern Italy, Grotta della Lea has remained largely untouched since it was first documented in the 1970s. Unlike many other archaeological sites that have been repeatedly excavated over decades, this cave has only recently been investigated systematically. That lack of disturbance makes it an exceptional place to study how humans occupied the region during the final millennia of the Upper Paleolithic.

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2024 Forum Prize

Society for Classical Studies

2024 Forum Prize kskordal Mon, 03/10/2025 - 08:50 Image Following the unanimous recommendation of the Outreach Prizes Committee, we wish to deliver the exciting news that Max Miller of Tasting History has been awarded the 2024 Forum Prize by the SCS. Tasting History is a vibrant, engaging public resource on living history available to a mass audience.

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Elevating EduProtocols with Depth and Complexity

Moler's Musing

This past weekend, I presented at the Gifted Fair conference at the Hamilton County Educational Service Center and had the chance to attend a session on depth and complexity. It really got me thinking. Developed by Dr. Sandra Kaplan, depth and complexity is a framework designed to push students beyond surface-level understanding by helping them think like experts in any subject.

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Drive and Listen

Living Geography

This looks like a rebrand of a site I've used for a while. Videos have been filmed from cars driving through cities around the world. You can listen to music on the local radio station or in the car, and also opt to hear the background sounds as well, which include the engine and street noise, sat-nav instructions etc. This site has more cities and different versions of the city in some cases, with multiple videos.

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The Moral Case for Minimum Wages

Political Science Now

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 Ewa Nizalowska, covers the new article by Christian Schemmel and Georg Picot, “Why We Need Minimum Wages: Pay, Recognition, and Economic Citizenship.” Why do we need minimum wages, and what, if anything, makes them preferable to other forms of labor market regulation?

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ISAW Graduate Student Conference: Itinerancy and Agency Across the Ancient World

Society for Classical Studies

ISAW Graduate Student Conference: Itinerancy and Agency Across the Ancient World kskordal Mon, 03/10/2025 - 08:29 Image Institute for the Study of the Ancient World Graduate Student Conference Itinerancy and Agency Across the Ancient World 13th-14h March, 2025 Lecture Hall (2nd Floor) Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, NYU 15 E 84th St. New York, NY 10028 Registration link: [link] Learn more: Itinerancy and Agency Across the Ancient World poster Conference Schedule Thursday 13th March

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Tallahassee Ghazal

Sapiens

Using an ancient Arabic poetic form, a poet-archaeologist from Florida cycles through feelings of entrapment growing up queer in the U.S. South. But in the end, they celebrate love for this placeand that most of us are breathing. Tallahassee Ghazal is part of the collection Poets Resist, Refuse, and Find a Way Through. Read the introduction to the collection here.

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Reading comprehension loses out in the classroom

The Hechinger Report

Nearly a half century ago, a landmark study showed that teachers werent explicitly teaching reading comprehension. Once children learned how to read words, no one taught them how to make sense of the sentences and paragraphs. Some kids naturally got it. Some didnt. Since then, reading researchers have come up with many ideas to foster comprehension.

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Teaching Irish American History

Studies Weekly

Teaching Irish American History Mar. 10, 2025 By Studies Weekly NEWSLETTER You only need to walk into a store and see St Patricks Day decorations to know Irish Americans have profoundly impacted our countrys culture. But what brought so many Irish immigrants to the United States? This overview of Irish American history can help you teach students why they see so many Irish influences today.

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STUDENT VOICE: What losing the Department of Education would mean for special education

The Hechinger Report

My familys first and only move was for the sake of special education. My twin brother, Rohan, had just been diagnosed with profound nonverbal autism. We were 2 years old, and my parents realized the urgency of getting us both into preschool. They were confident I could make the most of any school, but Rohan would need more support than schools near our Missouri apartment could provide.

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Direct Attacks on Science/Social Science in Higher Education through Capping Indirect Cost Rates: Why Anthropologists Should Care

Anthropology News

Congress should cap the indirect cost rate paid to universities so that it does not exceed the lowest rate a university accepts from a private organization to fund research efforts. This market-based reform would help reduce federal taxpayer subsidization of leftist agendas (Project 2025, p. 388) The Trump Administration, in line with ideas laid out in the Project 2025 plan, has taken dramatic steps to undermine higher education and constrain the pursuit of knowledge on university campuses.

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Coal plants are closing. For some schools, that means lost revenue and fewer jobs for graduates

The Hechinger Report

CRAIG, Colo. Noah Pike nearly had the money in hand. Growing up in Colorados coal belt, Pike constantly heard his father, uncles and both grandfathers talk about how much they earned in the mines. Most bought starter homes in their early 20s and never borrowed a penny. After graduating from high school last spring, with no desire to attend college, Pike couldnt resist the lure of Craig Station s starting hourly wage of up to $40 for maintenance workers on heavy mining equipment.

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