ED Surge

OCTOBER 31, 2024

What difference did $190 billion make for student success coming out of the COVID-19 health crisis? Not as much as you might think. An ESSER spending analysis by Edunomics Lab at Georgetown University found some puzzling instances where funneling more money into a pandemic-worsened problem didn’t help schools recover. The data ultimately points to no “silver bullet” in spending aimed at improving students’ academic performance since the pandemic, says Marguerite Roza, director of Edunomics Lab.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 31, 2024

The post Bridging the Digital Divide: A Path to Empowerment for Underserved Learners appeared first on Digital Promise.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 31, 2024

There’s a lot to consider when deciding where to apply to college. Tuition costs, financial aid offerings and student loans are high on the list, but so are questions about campus culture and free speech policies. We’ve created a whole suite of tools with brand new data that can answer your questions and help you research what life might be like at thousands of colleges and universities across the country.

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Cultures High School Teaching Research 126

Digital Promise

OCTOBER 31, 2024

The post Full Steam Ahead with Badge Engine: Introducing Our New Open-Source Badging Technology appeared first on Digital Promise.

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Anthropology.net

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Tracing Urban Beginnings Urbanization, a hallmark of ancient civilizations, is often linked to complex societies in regions such as Mesopotamia and the Levant. However, findings in northern Arabia indicate that urban development here took on a slower, more gradual trajectory during the Bronze Age. New research, led by Guillaume Charloux and published in PLOS ONE 1 , focuses on the third-to-second-millennium BCE town of al-Natah, shedding light on Arabia's unique urbanization process during this

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ShortCutsTV

OCTOBER 31, 2024

What seems like half a lifetime (but was actually around 20 years) ago I posted a YouTube Trailer called What is Sociology that was part of a much longer 3-part film called Introducing Sociology. Since then the trailer’s garnered around 350,000 views and, as far as I can tell, the original film is no-longer available.

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Sociology 52

Political Science Now

OCTOBER 31, 2024

The post Data on the Profession: 2024 APSA Annual Meeting Attendees appeared first on.

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Political Science Now

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Censoring the Intellectual Public Space in China: What Topics Are Not Allowed and Who Gets Blacklisted? By Xiaojun Yan and La Li , University of Hong Kong Censorship is one of the main forms of political coercion deployed by modern states to control and regulate public expression. In this article, we examine the political censorship of China’s intellectual public space, which has long been underexplored.

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Archiving 33

Sapiens

OCTOBER 31, 2024

A language scientist delves into historic and current efforts to catalog the planet’s 7,000-plus languages, uncovering colorful tales and Herculean challenges. ✽ As a scientist who has researched language diversity for a decade and a half, I recently joined a team to work on a task that even some linguists think is “ ultimately unobtainable ”: helping catalog and count the world’s complex and ever-changing languages.

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Zinn Education Project

OCTOBER 31, 2024

On Monday, November 18, documentary filmmaker Yoruba Richen will discuss American Coup: Wilmington 1898 , a new American Experience PBS documentary directed by Richen and Brad Lichtenstein that examines a white supremacist massacre of Black residents of Wilmington, North Carolina. Richen, and others from the film, will be in conversation with Teaching for Black Lives co-editor Jesse Hagopian.

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Anthropology.net

OCTOBER 31, 2024

A new study in Cell 1 has revealed that an ancient gene variant in the First Nations inhabitants of Oceania, inherited from Denisovans, could influence their immune response. The allele, known as KIR3DLI*114 , is widespread across populations in Australia, New Guinea, the Solomon Islands, and other regions of Oceania. Researchers believe it may have once provided protective benefits but could now contribute to modern health disparities.

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