ED Surge
MAY 28, 2024
One California family had a tough choice to make. Julie Lynem’s son had taken algebra in eighth grade, but hadn’t comprehended some of the core concepts. That left the family to decide whether to make him repeat the class in ninth grade — and potentially disadvantage him by preventing him from taking calculus later in high school — or to have him push through.
Living Geography
MAY 28, 2024
A cross posting from my Geography Teaching blog. I've developed this activity for Year 7, as part of our unit on food geographies called 'Food for Thought'. It's shared here without commentary or additional resources, which we've developed to help steer the lesson. It explores the rising price of food by focussing on one meal - a classic of UK food culture.
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Strange Maps
MAY 28, 2024
You’ve probably never heard of Baltoscandia. It sounds like a made-up country, and that’s because it is a made-up country. But even without a government, a flag, and most other trappings of actual nationhood, Baltoscandia has a history, a raison d’être , and perhaps even a future. Narva Castle in Estonia (left) facing the medieval fortifications of Ivangorod in Russia (right).
The Hechinger Report
MAY 28, 2024
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Jacqueline Strickland has spent nearly her entire life caring for children in Washington, D.C., starting at age 7, when she began babysitting her siblings after school, and then more formally at 14, when she began working at a daycare center. Despite the low pay, Strickland, 59, has stuck with her career, even as colleagues left child care for better-paying jobs at the post office or driving school buses.
Digital Promise
MAY 28, 2024
The post Announcing the 2024 YouthMADE Festival Community Awards appeared first on Digital Promise.
Education Elements
MAY 28, 2024
Anyone who follows education news and trends across the country will agree that there continues to be no bigger buzzword than “science of reading”. As we noted earlier in the year, over 35 states have committed formally to implementing the science of reading. Let’s look in more detail at what this actually means and some of the systems that will help with successful implementation.
Digital Promise
MAY 28, 2024
The post Introducing Pathways: Expanding Our Reach in Adult Learning and Working appeared first on Digital Promise.
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Sapiens
MAY 28, 2024
SAPIENS’ 2024 poet-in-residence imagines a wordless conversation with a troubled figure from the past and considers legacies of marginalization during the figure’s life and in archives. The Visit – Listen the bedroom is a chamber of whispers. the midnight wind blows the curtains, pushing air into silk lungs. she sits in the corner, outlined faintly by the soft glare of the moon. she does not wear clothes, no nightrobe, no plush slippers. there is no spine to turn, no torso to twist, only t
Dr. Shannon Doak
MAY 28, 2024
As we stride into an era increasingly shaped by artificial intelligence, it’s high time we re-evaluate our education system. The traditional content-heavy curriculum, obsessed with low-level content mastery and memorization, no longer fits the bill for our rapidly evolving society. Let’s dive into the areas we need to reconsider to ensure the viability of education in this new AI-infused world.
Anthropology News
MAY 28, 2024
Performances of panhandling in Guangzhou teach us about public space in modern Chinese cities and elsewhere. Guangzhou—also known as Canton—is a city of zuo shengyi , of “doing business.” As one of the oldest trade harbors in the south of China, Guangzhou opened up early when the country’s reform program of 1978 reintroduced the importance of money and markets.
Living Geography
MAY 28, 2024
A cross posting from my GCSE Natural History blog, which now has over 300 posts in preparation for supporting teachers if and when it appears as an option. Earlier today, this diagram was shared on Twitter, which looks from the formatting to be a panel from a recent copy of the i newspaper. It shows the Government policies that were announced, but never came to fruition because of the early call for a General Election.
Studies Weekly
MAY 28, 2024
Educator’s Guide to Improving Student Attendance May 28, 2024 • By Studies Weekly Education in the United States has changed since the 2020 pandemic and still faces many lingering challenges due to the shutdown. One of the most pervasive issues is chronic student absenteeism. A student is considered chronically absent if they miss at least 10% of the total school year, around 18 full days.
Political Science Now
MAY 28, 2024
Hope Martinez is a second-year Ph.D. student in Georgia State University’s Doctoral Program of Political Science. Her subfields are public law and American politics. Hope’s research focuses on Indigenous law and politics with a broad interest in judicial politics, methods, and the effects of colonialism. She is currently working on projects about state effort to limit Native sovereignty including state use of the U.S.
Teaching American History
MAY 28, 2024
On May 28, 1892, a group of university professors and interested citizens met in the San Francisco law office of Warren Olney to found the nation’s first nongovernmental wilderness protection organization, the Sierra Club. Naturalist John Muir, whose popular magazine articles had done much to bring about the 1890 Congressional act creating Yosemite National Park , was unanimously named president of the new organization.
Political Science Now
MAY 28, 2024
In the APSA Public Scholarship Program, graduate students in political science produce summaries of new research in the American Political Science Review. This piece, written by Dirck de Kleer , covers the new article by David Szakonyi, George Washington University, “Corruption and Co-Optation in Autocracy: Evidence from Russia.” In 2018, Alexey Navalny’s Anti-Corruption Foundation used different data sources to reveal that Russian Duma deputy Leonid Slutsky drove two Bentleys and a Merced
Political Science Now
MAY 28, 2024
The Puzzle of Chile’s Resilient Support for Gender Parity By Catherine Reyes-Housholder , Political Science Institute , Pontifical Catholic University , Julieta Suárez-Cao , Political Science Institute, Pontifical Catholic University and Javiera Arce-Riffo , University College London, United Kingdom ; Instituto de Economía Aplicada Regional (IDEAR), Universidad Católica del Norte Chile’s 2021–22 Constitutional Convention was the first in the world to feature mechanisms that guaranteed gender par
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