Anthropology.net
APRIL 16, 2025
Roughly 41,000 years ago, Earth’s magnetic field—our planet’s protective shield—flickered and faltered. The magnetic poles drifted from their usual places, the field weakened to a tenth of its modern strength, and aurorae flared over continents that rarely see them. This episode, known as the Laschamps excursion, did not just create celestial fireworks.
The Hechinger Report
APRIL 16, 2025
What if colleges started applying to you instead of the other way around? The anxiety-inducing college admissions game is changing. With declining birth rates and growing skepticism about the value of a degree, higher education is facing an enrollment cliff, set to hit hard in 2026. Thats 18 years after the Great Recession, when many American families stopped having babies.
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TeachThought
APRIL 16, 2025
Education seeks to empower individuals, enabling them to think critically, embrace learning, and better themselves and their communities.
Anthropology.net
APRIL 16, 2025
For at least 10,000 years, humans have worked the land to feed families, build communities, and form civilizations. But the way those lands were used—how they were divided, worked, and governed—did more than sustain life. It shaped who got rich, who stayed poor, and how power was passed on across generations. A new study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences offers 1 one of the most detailed archaeological analyses to date of the roots of economic inequality.
Edthena
APRIL 16, 2025
National Board Certification is one of the most prestigious milestones an educator can achieve. Its a rigorous, reflective process that pushes teachers to analyze their impact, refine their practice, and elevate their craft. Administrators understand the value of National Board Certification (NBCT)its a proven way to elevate teaching quality and improve student outcomes.
Digital Promise
APRIL 16, 2025
The post Announcing the 2025 Ciena Solutions Challenge Sustainability Awards appeared first on Digital Promise.
Political Science Now
APRIL 16, 2025
The American Political Science Association (APSA) and the Japanese Political Science Association (JPSA) are pleased to announce a Call for Applications for early-career scholars from the US and Japan who are interested in conducting civically engaged research related to the social and political impacts of demographic change. The second annual JPSA-APSA Working Group on Civically Engaged Research for Critical Issues in Society will be held alongside this years JPSA Annual Meeting , October 9-12 ,
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Political Science Now
APRIL 16, 2025
Reawakening a Revolutionary Party: The Ancient and Modern Princes in Wang Huis Political Theory By Simon Sihang Luo , Stanford University. Recent political theory has seen a revived interest in theorizing the political party, and, in particular, exploring what the political party can do to address its decline and revitalize itself. This renewed interest, however, draws largely on the political praxis of party politics of established liberal democracies in the United States and Europe.
Education Week - Social Studies
APRIL 16, 2025
Many teachers long to restore students trust in our institutionsbut how we do so matters.
Anthroholic
APRIL 16, 2025
Rituals, beliefs, and the way society was organized: the anthropologist spent years studying all of it firsthand. But today? That landscape is shiftingfast.
Sapiens
APRIL 16, 2025
Facing an increasing aging population and other societal shifts, people are looking beyond traditional family-based mortuary practices. Its August in Tokyo hot and muggy, as usual. So Ive scheduled my daily walk to be early and close to where Im staying with a friend in the western part of the city. I walk to Tama-Reien , Tokyos largest municipal cemetery.
The Hechinger Report
APRIL 16, 2025
I know something about standing up to the authoritarian impulses of the MAGA movement. I resigned as Kentuckys commissioner of education in late 2023 rather than enforce the GOP-dominated state legislatures shameful law aimed at erasing and marginalizing LGBTQ+ students. The Trump administration has escalated these attacks from hostile rhetoric directed toward students and K-12 and higher education to putting policies in place that are not just disruptive, but outright harmful especially to the
The Hechinger Report
APRIL 16, 2025
When this years legislative session launched in Idaho, early childhood experts and advocates were hopeful that the state, which has a shortage of child care, would invest more in early learning programs. Instead, lawmakers proposed what may be the most extreme effort yet to deregulate child care in America: The bill called for eliminating state required staff-to-child ratios altogether, instead allowing child care providers to set their own.
The Hechinger Report
APRIL 16, 2025
Most Americans would probably rather forget the Great Recession that began in 2007. But as long ago as it may seem, it triggered something that is about to become a big problem: Americans started having fewer babies, and the birth rate hasnt recovered since. That means a looming decline in the number if 18-year-olds. Since those are the traditional customers for universities and colleges, enrollment is projected to fall dramatically and campuses to close.
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