ED Surge

JULY 16, 2024

It’s no secret that high school students are looking at the prospect of college more skeptically , and a large part of their hesitation comes from worry about taking on thousands of dollars in student loans. Parsing education data into snack-sized servings. It’s only natural that they would experience sticker shock after researching the annual cost of attendance at universities that have caught their eye — which might be equivalent to a parent’s annual salary.

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Heinemann Blog

JULY 16, 2024

Heinemann today announced the release of an updated version of Saxon Phonics and Spelling on its Heinemann Flight platform, with brand new content available for the 2024-2025 school year. Authored by special education teacher Lorna Simmons , Saxon Phonics and Spelling offers a science-based approach to explicit phonological and phonemic awareness, phonics and fluency instruction.

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Anthropology News

JULY 16, 2024

This summer, tthe AAA hosted three interns through the Virtual High School Internship , and throughout the summer, the interns engaged in a variety of enriching activities: Research Projects: They read scholarly research articles, took them apart to see how they were constructed, and communicated their methods and findings to diverse audiences. Professional Development: They explored the theory of praxis, the methods of autoethnography, the institutions of scholarly publishing, and the technique

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Living Geography

JULY 16, 2024

A good Opinion piece by Steve Brace has been published in Schools Week. It provides some thoughts on the direction that the new Government should take with regards to the curriculum and support for Green careers.

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Maitri Learning

JULY 16, 2024

How do we help young children crack the code of benchmark tests? The first step is teaching them concepts of print. In this video, you'll see some explicit and easy strategies all of which you can accomplish with an alphabet pocket chart. This first video in our "Crack the Codes" series, will share several ways that an alphabet pocket chart can assist in teaching concepts of print to young learners.

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Living Geography

JULY 16, 2024

A cross posting from my GA Presidents blog. This has a biography of every GA President, along with hundreds of other posts on the history of the Association. Utopia on Trial was written by Alice Coleman. The work featured here seems to have been completed by a large, mostly female team of geographers. Page 1 of the book references the Land Use Survey that was instigated by Dudley Stamp and which she was an integral part of.

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Let's Cultivate Greatness

JULY 16, 2024

Once kids are in high school, there usually isn’t time or the need to spend a whole week solely doing relationship-building activities. But you should still do something those first few days between finalizing the seating chart and your first unit. I might tweak my “Welcome to Civics class” activities a little year to year, but here are my tried-and-true favorite ones to do to establish a great foundation.

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Heinemann Blog

JULY 16, 2024

Awakening the Heart is now available as an audiobook! Listen to the book in the author, Georgia Heard's, own voice.

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Teaching American History

JULY 16, 2024

The post This is a Test Blog appeared first on Teaching American History.

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Anthropology.net

JULY 16, 2024

A recent groundbreaking study 1 provides new insights into the ancient cultures of Canada's Arctic, focusing on the Paleo-Inuit and Thule-Inuit peoples who inhabited the region over thousands of years. Led by Jules Blais, professor of biology at the University of Ottawa, the research team detected evidence of human presence and settlements on Somerset Island, Nunavut, by analyzing sediment samples.

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Political Science Now

JULY 16, 2024

Civic Learning on Campus: Bringing Political Science In Mini-Conference I Theme Panel Mini-Conference “Engaging Citizenship”: Teaching Democracy in an Era of Rising Authoritarianism Thursday, September 5, 8:00am – 9:30am Co-sponsored by Division 10: Political Science Education Roundtable Participants : (Chair) Lauren Marie Balasco, Stockton University (Presenter) Claire Abernathy, Stockton University (Presenter) Jennifer Forestal, Loyola University, Chicago (Presenter) Lauren A.

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Diane Ravitch

JULY 16, 2024

John Thompson, historian and retired teacher, brings us up to date with the latest shenanigans of Oklahoma’s State Superintendent Ryan Walters. Recently, he mandated that the Bible be taught in the state’s classrooms. Now Walters has appointed a list of rightwing luminaries to rewrite the state’s social studies curriculum. Just when you thought it couldn’t get worse, Walters proves that it can.

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