Women's History Network
MAY 27, 2024
2024 marks the centenary of the founding of the Electrical Association for Women (EAW), an organisation that urged women to equip themselves with pliers, scissors, and screwdrivers and learn how to maintain and fix their electrical appliances – no repairman required!
The Hechinger Report
MAY 27, 2024
Every time educators suspend students from school, they have to select a formal reason. In Texas, they have 42 options to pick from — fighting, school-related gang violence, even arson. Despite those choices, 88 percent of suspensions in Texas last year were marked in state reports as a “violation of student code of conduct” with no additional detail.
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ED Surge
MAY 27, 2024
Thinking back to her days as a bilingual teacher to fourth graders, Crystal Gonzales recalls that some of the suggestions offered by curriculum materials to adapt lessons for English learners were downright insulting. Parsing education data into snack-sized servings. “They were very simplified,” she says. “They were like, ‘Show them a picture.’ Not very rigorous at all.
The Hechinger Report
MAY 27, 2024
Schools spend billions of dollars a year on products and services, including everything from staplers and textbooks to teacher coaching and training. Does any of it help students learn more? Some educational materials end up mothballed in closets. Much software goes unused. Yet central-office bureaucrats frequently renew their contracts with outside vendors regardless of usage or efficacy.
C3 Teachers
MAY 27, 2024
First blog post in a series on sources as the Building Blocks of Inquiry In the short story mystery, The Copper Beeches , Dr. John Watson inquires to his flat mate, the famous literary detective, Sherlock Holmes, how he can sit for hours on end in wait for the next break in the case. “‘Data! data! data!’ he cried impatiently. ‘I can’t make bricks without clay.
The Hechinger Report
MAY 27, 2024
Clouds of doom continue to hover over the debate about teens’ mental health and the role of technology. This spring, the warnings come from the bestselling book “The Anxious Generation” by sociologist Jonathan Haidt. Some parents and educators are calling for a ban on smartphones and laptops in schools. Others are trying to press pause on the panic by pointing to research that needs a longer look.
Anthropology.net
MAY 27, 2024
In a remarkable discovery 1 along the Baltic coast, scientists have unearthed evidence of a Stone Age megastructure submerged beneath the waters—an archaeological marvel that sheds light on ancient hunting strategies and early human interactions with the environment. The Discovery and Initial Observations The story begins in 2021, when Jacob Geersen, a geophysicist from the Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research, and his team were conducting routine sonar mapping exercises off the Germa
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Anthropology.net
MAY 27, 2024
The study of pottery in Central Europe offers a unique window into the culinary practices and cultural evolution of early societies. Recently published in PLOS ONE 1 , research by scientists from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB) and the State Office for Heritage Management and Archaeology (LDA) of Saxony-Anhalt explores the rich tapestry of culinary traditions spanning from the Early Neolithic to the Late Bronze Age.
Political Science Now
MAY 27, 2024
Logging in to Learn: The Effects of Online Civic Education Pedagogy on a Latinx and AAPI Civic Engagement Youth Conference By Matt Lamb , Texas Tech University Civic education is essential to the health of any democracy. When COVID-19 emerged in the spring of 2020, almost all civic education efforts went online. This increased interest in the effectiveness of online civic education.
Heinemann Blog
MAY 27, 2024
How can we help students move beyond basic comprehension to deeper understanding and critical thinking about texts?
The Hechinger Report
MAY 27, 2024
SPOKANE, Wash. — Before giving birth to her daughter, Kaleeya Baldwin, 19, had given up on education. She’d dropped out of school as a seventh grader, after behavior problems had banished her to alternative schools. Growing up in foster homes and later landing in juvenile court had convinced her to disappear from every system that claimed responsibility for her.
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