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The Roots of Knowledge and Learning

The Effortful Educator

It was March of 2024 when my family rented a cabin with another family in Gatlinburg, Tennessee during spring break. It was to be a time of relaxation and enjoyment with friends in the splendor of The Great Smoky Mountains. And it wasalthough Im not sure there was any parental relaxation since there were six kids ranging in age from one to ten. One day we all decided to drive into the national park for a little hike to really immerse ourselves in nature.

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This School Librarian Thinks Her Job Is the ‘Best-Kept Secret in Education’

ED Surge

Jami Rhue thought her first stint as a school librarian would be a quick detour in her career as a classroom teacher. But by the time she was heading up her own elementary school classroom in Chicago, she found herself missing the library and longing to teach media literacy again. So it was back to the bookshelves for her. Since 2010, Rhue has been a school librarian at Providence Englewood Charter School, a preK-8 school on the South Side of Chicago serving primarily Black and brown students wh

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Tracing the Dawn of Humanity: Hominins in Eurasia Before 2 Million Years Ago

Anthropology.net

A New Chapter in Early Human Dispersal The story of humanity's expansion out of Africa has long been marked by unanswered questions about the timing, routes, and survival of early hominins in Eurasia. A new study published in Nature Communications 1 explores evidence from the Grăunceanu site in Romania, pushing the presence of early humans in Europe to at least 1.95 million years ago.

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Opium Wars: CNN Millenium & The Story of China

World History Teachers Blog

Here are two clips about the Opium Wars. One is from CNN Millenium , which I often show my students and the other is from Micheal Wood in The Story of China. Both are short, about 8 to 10 minutes. In the CNN Millenim video, the Opium War starts at 28.49 and runs to 36.50. The clip from The Story of China is eight minutes long.

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Building Language Proficiency through Community Engagement

Digital Promise

The post Building Language Proficiency through Community Engagement appeared first on Digital Promise.

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In Honor of Martin Luther King, Jr.

Teaching American History

On this day, we are pleased to post this essay by Lucas Morel , Class of 1960 Professor of Ethics and Politics at Washington and Lee University and long time former faculty member at Teaching American History, who considers the lasting legacy of King’s great speech: Equality, Fairness and Brotherhood: Common Ground for the Nation’s Diverse Citizenry August 28th, 2013, marks the 50th anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.s I Have a Dream speech, which ranks among the most famous speech

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Codes of Conduct at Political Science Conferences: Prevalence and Content

Political Science Now

Codes of Conduct at Political Science Conferences: Prevalence and Content By Lucie Lu , Columbia University and Nora Webb Williams , University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Academic conferences are important institutions for promoting new research and facilitating conversations about the field. As a venue for knowledge exchange, professional development, and networking, conferences ideally promote positive environments that make scholars from underrepresented groups feel welcome.

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Meet DFP Fall Fellow, Josiah Jacobs, Johns Hopkins University

Political Science Now

Josiah Jacobs , a San Francisco native, graduated magna cum laude from Howard University with a degree in political science and a minor in Africana studies. While at Howard, he worked as a research assistant under Dr. Elsie Scott, studying the representation of Black politicians at the state level. Currently, he is a second-year Predoctoral Fellow at Johns Hopkins University, assisting Dr.

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This Is How ‘Woke’ Schools Really Are—According to Students

Education Week - Social Studies

Students don't report evidence of systemic political bias, but do say teachers discuss controversial issues.

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The Strange Power of Laughter

Sapiens

An anthropologist explores laughter as a far more complex phenomenon than simple delightreflecting on its surprising power to disturb and disrupt. WHEN I WAS LITTLE, I tended to fall into bouts of uncontrollable laughter. Basically, once I started laughing, I found it very difficult to stop. The problem was particularly acute in contexts where I wasnt supposed to laugh, when the urge to laugh would become utterly overwhelmingto the extent that I quickly acquired the moniker Giggling Gertie.

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How Trump executive orders on immigration, transgender rights may affect schools

The Hechinger Report

This story was produced by Chalkbeat and reprinted with permission. Sign up for Chalkbeats free weekly newsletter. As President Donald Trump took office for a second time, he almost immediately used his executive power to roll back rights for transgender people and immigrants actions likely to reverberate in American schools. Trumps 29-minute inaugural address described a nation in decline, where the pillars of our society lay broken and seemingly in complete disrepair.