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What Will Districts Do With All Those Empty School Buildings? Some Look to Fill Them With Younger Kids

ED Surge

Several years ago, Oklahoma City Public Schools shuttered more than a dozen of its school buildings. It was part of a realignment process in the district to right-size student populations within schools some were overcrowded, others were underenrolled and to make the school experience better and more consistent for students across the city. But what to do with all of those empty buildings?

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Brigadier Ronald R. Van Stockum, U.S.Marine Corps (Retired) Obituary

Life and Landscapes

Brigadier General Ronald R. Van Stockum, U. S. Marine Corps (Retired) Brigadier General Ronald R. Van Stockum died peacefully in his sleep on April 24, 2022, in Shelby County, Kentucky. He was born in Cambridgeshire, England on July 8, 1916. His father, Sergeant Reginald Bareham, had died a week earlier in the great Battle of the Somme, July 1, 1916, where 19,240 British soldiers had been killed in a single day.

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Why Digital Fluency, Adaptability and AI-Powered Learning Matter More Than Ever

ED Surge

The future isnt just approaching its moving fast. As industries evolve and workforce demands shift, schools and districts have a critical role in ensuring students are prepared for whats ahead. Traditional education models, which focus on knowledge retention alone, arent enough. Students need digital fluency and adaptability to succeed in an era of constant technological change.

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The Politics of Pottery: How Ceramics Mapped the Borders of El Argar’s Bronze Age World

Anthropology.net

Some 4,000 years ago, the southeastern corner of the Iberian Peninsula was home to one of Europe’s first state-level societies: El Argar. From its fortified hilltop settlements, this Bronze Age power controlled vast territories, imposing its influence over neighboring groups through trade, warfare, and the steady flow of resources like metal, textiles, and ceramics.

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6 Domains Of Cognition: The Heick Learning Taxonomy

TeachThought

The Heick Learning Taxonomy can be used to guide planning, assessment, curriculum design, and self-directed learning.

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A Classroom Teacher’s Take on AI

The Effortful Educator

If youre a teacher, you are probably quite aware of the seeping of AI into the classroom and PD. I believe the last few monthly professional development offerings at my school have had a portion of time dedicated to different AI tools available to teachers to assist with writing lesson plans or developing questions from text or organizing and presenting content.

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A Red Smile from the Silk Road: The Mystery of Cinnabar-Stained Teeth in Ancient Turpan

Anthropology.net

More than 2,000 years ago, a young woman was buried in the Turpan Basin of northwest China. She was laid to rest alongside leather boots, gold earrings, and finely crafted ornaments—objects that hint at wealth and status. But one detail stood out among the usual burial goods: her teeth were stained a deep, unnatural red. Multi-angle views of the stained teeth of 07TSM11:B.

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HQIM in Social Studies

4QM Teaching

We Finally Wrote A Curriculum When we first decided to try to spread the Four Question Method beyond our own classrooms, we were very naive. We figured wed go to conferences and give workshops, and teachers would go back home and implement the method. It turned out that we could get invited to conferences and we gave pretty good workshops that teachers liked a lot but very few of them went back home and revised their teaching materials to reflect the Four Question Method.

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Oklahoma Draft Standards Ask Students to Find 2020 Election 'Discrepancies'

Education Week - Social Studies

The standards intimate that the 2020 presidential election results might not be trustworthy.

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Erasure I and Erasure VI

Sapiens

In two erasure poems, a poet-anthropologist imagines alternative futures using text from the 1846 Treaty of Amritsar, through which the British sold Kashmir to a despotic Dogra ruler. The poems are from a six-part series titled Song of the First Spring. Erasure I and Erasure VI are part of the collection Poets Resist, Refuse, and Find a Way Through.

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Legalizing Abortion in the Southern Cone

Political Science Now

Legalizing Abortion in the Southern Cone By Cora Fernndez Anderson , Mount Holyoke College The Southern Cone has been at the forefront of the fight for abortion rights in Latin America. Due to the legacies of Hispanic legal traditions and the overwhelming political influence of the Catholic Church, the region historically has been known for its restrictive policies on abortion and reproductive rights more broadly. 1 However, in the past 15 years, Southern Cone countries began to challenge those

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How Oklahoma’s superintendent set off a holy war in classrooms

The Hechinger Report

NORMAN, Okla. Sometimes, Jakob Topper teaches his Christian faith to his six-year-old daughter using childrens Bible stories illustrated with teddy bears. Other days, he might use her kid-friendly Bible featuring Precious Moments figures as characters. One thing he knows for sure: The King James version is not on the reading list, given some of its adult themes of sexual assault and incest.