Active History Teacher
JULY 1, 2024
The first week of school is crazy. From the first day of school through at least the first week, we have schedule changes, assemblies and all the chaos! I mean my class is nuts. I needed a first week of school activity I could do with kids that would get them interested in my class in a meaningful way. We all need an activity for the first week of school that goes beyond the normal “get to know you” games.
The Hechinger Report
JULY 1, 2024
Reports about schools squandering their $190 billion in federal pandemic recovery money have been troubling. Many districts spent that money on things that had nothing to do with academics, particularly building renovations. Less common, but more eye-popping were stories about new football fields, swimming pool passes, hotel rooms at Caesar’s Palace in Las Vegas and even the purchase of an ice cream truck.
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ED Surge
JULY 1, 2024
When Sheresa Boone Blanchard, a mother of three in North Carolina, started homeschooling her son during the pandemic, it might actually have saved her time. Isaiah, her middle child, had finished fifth grade in June 2020. With the health crisis going on, Blanchard switched him to virtual lessons when he started sixth grade. But he has ADHD and just couldn't focus without someone with him, she says.
Digital Promise
JULY 1, 2024
Co-design sessions with Jobs for Maine’s Graduates (JMG) & Talladega City Schools around micro-credential and LER implementation
The Hechinger Report
JULY 1, 2024
Higher education has finally come around to the idea that college should better help prepare students for careers. It’s about time: Recognizing that students do not always understand the connection between their coursework and potential careers is a long-standing problem that must be addressed. Over 20 years ago, I co-authored the best-selling “ Quarterlife Crisis,” one of the first books to explore the transition from college to the workforce.
Smithsonian Voices | Smithsonian Education
JULY 1, 2024
An afterschool club in partnership with the Smithsonian and the World Wildlife Fund aims to build environmental leadership skills through hands-on experiences and exposure to a wide range of "green" careers
Sapiens
JULY 1, 2024
A poet interrogates the garden of Eden origin story by reimagining it against the backdrop of East Africa’s coastal environment. Coastal Eden – Listen in the evening, frangipani fronds unfurl their lemon-yellow limbs into a cloud that fills the garden. the coastal breeze lifts palms and verdant leaves as if limp arms. coastal current, not salty brine but telluric, carrying memory thwarting geography, sea becoming alpine. coastal gusts sweet busy with heat, dizzying twisting twisting until
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Perspectives in Anthropology
JULY 1, 2024
Written by Keith Hart Saul Wainwright commented on the previous post in this series, CLR Jamesand the idea of an African revolution:“I have been wondering about how to tie the Egyptian revolution into thelarger world system. I was not aware that CLR thought there would be twomore revolutions, one being Russian and other being American.
Society for Classical Studies
JULY 1, 2024
2024-2025 Placement Service kskordal Mon, 07/01/2024 - 12:38 Image Annual maintenance for the SCS Placement Service is complete. As of Monday, July 1, the Current Ads page of the Placement Service is publishing job advertisements with application deadlines falling in academic year 2024-2025. Job seekers can subscribe or resubscribe to the service for the 2024-2025 year at any time by visiting the Placement Service for Job Seekers page.
Life and Landscapes
JULY 1, 2024
IMMUNITY, VAMPIRES, AND THE APOCALYPSE! In which order should we take them? In reverse? Alright, the apocalypse first! Is it happening? Nope. Different folks have different beliefs about the coming destruction, of which they are all certain. Mine? An asteroid. It has happened before. A two-mile wide asteroid [1998, OR2] just passed by! Remember the dinosaurs?
C3 Teachers
JULY 1, 2024
This is the third post in a series on sources as the Building Blocks of Inquiry. One of the most innovative features of IDM is its interconnectedness. Yes there are separate questions, tasks, and sources. However, a good IDM will always have questions, tasks, and sources that intertwine and rely on each other. To this end, each of the features of an IDM (including the assessment) should rely on each other, bringing out the essence of the content.
Living Geography
JULY 1, 2024
A cross posting from my new blog. 'At the Home of Geography' will share my work as the Vice President: Education of the Royal Geographical Society. It will also share more of the work that the RGS is doing to support teachers and advance geographical learning. One of the largest events connected with Higher Education is the RGS's Annual International Conference.
C3 Teachers
JULY 1, 2024
This is the third post in a series on sources as the Building Blocks of Inquiry. One of the most innovative features of IDM is its interconnectedness. Yes there are separate questions, tasks, and sources. However, a good IDM will always have questions, tasks, and sources that intertwine and rely on each other. To this end, each of the features of an IDM (including the assessment) should rely on each other, bringing out the essence of the content.
Political Science Now
JULY 1, 2024
Polarization of the Rich: The New Democratic Allegiance of Affluent Americans and the Politics of Redistribution By Sam Zacher , Yale University Affluent Americans used to vote for Republican politicians. Now they vote for Democrats. In this paper, I show detailed evidence for this decades-in-the-making trend and argue that it has important consequences for the U.S. politics of economic inequality and redistribution.
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