Passion for Social Studies
APRIL 30, 2024
When students think about history, they often talk about the past. While the past does allow us to shape the future, history is more than this. It also includes civics lessons, which show students their rights and duties as citizens. One day, they will not be attending school each day. Instead, they will interact, work, and assist in various aspects of a community.
ED Surge
APRIL 30, 2024
A program that began in Kentucky as a novel idea to rebuild the early childhood workforce — and, in effect, buoy the broader labor market — has quickly spread to states across the country. To draw early educators back into classrooms , legislators in the Bluegrass State made a change in fall 2022 that expanded the eligibility requirements of Kentucky’s child care subsidy program to include all staff who work at least 20 hours per week in a licensed early care and education program.
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Anthropology News
APRIL 30, 2024
“Based on the Incredible True Story.” So begins the trailer for the film Arthur the King , starring Mark Wahlberg, Simu Liu, Nathalie Immanuel, and Ali Suliman: a heartwarming story about a stray, scruffy dog and an endurance athlete who find each other during an epic adventure race across the Dominican Republic. The tale—told in three different books in dozens of languages—has already captured the hearts of millions.
ED Surge
APRIL 30, 2024
When Felecia Russell was a high school student growing up near Los Angeles, she was getting good grades and plenty of encouragement to go to college. But when it came time to do the paperwork of applying to a campus and financial aid, Russell asked her mom for her social security number. “My mom was like, ‘yeah, you don’t have one,’” she remembers. Russell didn’t have a social security number because she didn’t have permanent legal status in the U.S.
Anthropology News
APRIL 30, 2024
In the dim light of a Monday morning in August 2018, Meng, a 33-year-old woman living near Beijing, began her day with a sense of urgency. Rising at 5:40 a.m., she navigated her morning routine with haste, quietly brushing her teeth, washing her face, and skillfully applying makeup, careful not to disturb her still-sleeping family. Her mission: to reach her neighborhood in time for the 6:15 a.m. company bus that awaited her, marking the start of another workweek.
Zinn Education Project
APRIL 30, 2024
When students begin to defy established authority it often appears to besieged administrators that “someone must be behind this,” the implication being that young people are incapable of thinking or acting on their own. — Howard Zinn, 1971 University presidents are using “outside agitators” as their rationale for calling the police against student encampments.
Education Elements
APRIL 30, 2024
Teachers have a tremendous impact on the learning and lives of their students and communities, and planning a unique and powerful teacher appreciation week is one way to celebrate their incredible contributions. School and district leaders can use the strategies below as a starting point to plan meaningful ways to recognize all that they do, every day.
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Strange Maps
APRIL 30, 2024
Look toward Sagittarius. Beyond lies the Central Molecular Zone (CMZ): the cold, dusty heart of our Milky Way. The CMZ contains 60 million solar masses’ worth of particles at -432 degrees Fahrenheit (-258°C). This dust is the stuff from which planets and stars are built — a process that depends on the interaction between the dust and the CMZ’s magnetic fields.
Political Science Now
APRIL 30, 2024
APSA is pleased to announce the 2024 Ralph Bunche Summer Institute (RBSI) Class. This year, 14 undergraduate students will participate in the annual, intensive five-week program hosted by Duke University. The 2024 institute is being held May 26 – June 27, 2024, under the direction of Dr. Paula D. McClain. This is the 38th year of the program. RBSI is designed to introduce aspiring political scientists to the world of doctoral study.
Education Week - Social Studies
APRIL 30, 2024
Through the use of primary sources, and students' own critical thinking skills, this Texas teacher navigates the current political climate.
Pedagogy and Formation
APRIL 30, 2024
Foundations for Change in Secular Education While this blog has focused largely on pedagogy in faith-based schools, I've been reminded recently that secular schools face similar challenges with students, and also in relation to teacher development, I think there is more common ground than we might imagine. Having started my teaching life as a non-Christian in secular government run education, I have spent many years helping to develop teachers and schools in both sectors.
Anthropology News
APRIL 30, 2024
(In Mongolian) The semi-conductor radio made in Shanghai, Is a gift awarded to me. Because I do a good job at work, And it is this radio that encourages me. When I am out grazing, It is singing in my hand. When I am sitting in my yurt, It is speaking on my cabinet. (In Mandarin Chinese) The semi-conductor radio made in Shanghai, It is shyly lying in the corner.
TCI
APRIL 30, 2024
Videos are a powerful tool for educators, enabling them to captivate students and foster engagement. From captivating storylines to fun interactions, videos have the potential to transform the learning experience. Recently, Brian Thomas, a former classroom teacher and current curriculum developer at TCI, shared his insights on using videos in the classroom in a webinar alongside edWeb.
Anthropology News
APRIL 30, 2024
Based on a combination of stories, lived experiences, and lies from my research on not-knowing in Belo, this fictive ethnographic narrative recounts a night spent in fear of an attack by dahalo (local bandits). Over the course of the night, the narrator moves between waking and sleep as they try to make sense of the bandits’ attack based on bits of unreliable information.
Teaching American History
APRIL 30, 2024
This blog post, written by faculty member Sarah Morgan Smith , was first posted on January 19, 2021. An online resource guide at Library of Congress, U.S. Presidential Inaugurations: “I Do Solemnly Swear…,” showcases the development of the inauguration day ceremonies. For each president, library staff have collected primary materials illustrating what made his inauguration unique.
Anthropology News
APRIL 30, 2024
In Wayanad, a densely forested district in the state of Kerala, in South India, human-animal conflict is on the rise, with frequent reports of tigers preying on cattle, bears causing havoc, and elephants damaging property. Public sentiment is increasingly hostile toward the Forest Department, accusing them of prioritizing animal protection over human welfare due to the strict enforcement of the Wildlife Protection Act of 1972 in the state.
The Hechinger Report
APRIL 30, 2024
BALTIMORE – Jazz Lewis wound up at the University of Maryland not by luck or privilege but by the strings of a guitar. Now a member of the Maryland House of Delegates, Lewis said he paid for his college degree with a mix of scholarships and money paid from stints with his church band. As one of the first men in his family to attend college, he said higher education was by no means a given; he earned it.
Anthropology News
APRIL 30, 2024
Credit: Seema Krishnakumar The Palace, as encountered from the car, alongside the highway, on the way from the small town of Sangareddy toward the metropolis of Hyderabad Facades of buildings, like faces, can wear masks. They can masquerade as something they are not. Hotel: The Palace, situated on India’s National Highway-65, between the big city of Hyderabad and the small town of Sangareddy, is both and neither of its named components.
Anthropology News
APRIL 30, 2024
“You are too old to be a refugee.” “You can’t stay in this country unless you serve four years in the military. And then when your kid is old enough, he has to serve four years too.” “If you don’t have a police report that confirms what you’re telling me, you’re going to be deported. They’ll know you’re lying. You have to have proof to stay here.” “You are a liar.
Anthropology News
APRIL 30, 2024
August 9, 2016, was a good day for Phil Heasley, the CEO of a financial services company in Florida. Fishing with his crew of three off the coast of Maryland from his 68-foot luxury yacht, Kallianassa , he caught a white marlin that was six feet long and weighed 76.5 pounds. Heasley was competing in Ocean City’s annual White Marlin Open competition, the world’s largest billfishing tournament.
Anthropology News
APRIL 30, 2024
Airlock 1 : When air enters a diesel fuel system, preventing proper combustion. Usually caused by an empty tank. Airlock 2 [Zimbabwean slang]: When “gas” (alcohol) stops flowing, preventing a proper level of inebriation. Usually caused by empty pockets. Most people have heard the lie, “I don’t have money.” Indeed, some of us have told it. It is not the sort of claim one takes at face value, though.
Anthropology News
APRIL 30, 2024
As India gears up for national elections in summer 2024, the atmosphere across the country is uncharacteristically flat. There isn’t much of the usual suspense or festivity that marks the occasion, since Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) are set to return to power in what observers declare is “almost an inevitability.
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