Zinn Education Project
DECEMBER 16, 2024
Every Zinn Education Project session not only impacts my teaching, but unravels the damage done by whitewashed histories. You give me more tools to educate my students and make me a better teacher today. Tara Micham, social studies teacher, Kansas City, Kansas Tara Micham is one of thousands of teachers learning the history missing from their own education in our Teach the Black Freedom Struggle classes.
Digital Promise
DECEMBER 16, 2024
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Living Geography
DECEMBER 16, 2024
Crisps are popular snacks, and we eat a lot of them. Although they're not the best thing for us health wise. This video follows the story of a brand called Lays, from the potato to the pack. I am looking to update my Year 7 'Food for Thought' scheme of work to add in more references to potatoes, and this is one option. We already have a video about their journey to Scottish fish and chip shops and this will be a nice companion piece.
Digital Promise
DECEMBER 16, 2024
Hear how the League of Innovative Students made strides in 2024 toward shaping educational experiences for their peers and driving systemic change.
Living Geography
DECEMBER 16, 2024
From 2009 - when Michael Palin took over as RGS President. "For some reason, geography is not seen as a popular subject in school. It's seen as very unglamorous. Yet when I was at school, I can remember geography offering me the chance to get out and go on field trips and go on walks, and I loved maps, I loved atlases, I loved learning about other countries and places where things were different from our own and that's all covered by geography.
Society for Classical Studies
DECEMBER 16, 2024
2024 Erich S. Gruen Prize kskordal Mon, 12/16/2024 - 08:56 Image In 2024, the fifth year of the SCS Erich S. Gruen Prize , the selection committee received submissions from graduate students across North America who present exciting new approaches to race, ethnicity, and cultural exchange as they pertain to the ancient Mediterranean. The committee was impressed by the papers quality and wide range of disciplinary perspectives, methodologies, types of evidence, and time periods.
Living Geography
DECEMBER 16, 2024
What are climate change allowances? Climate change allowances are predictions of anticipated change for: peak river flow peak rainfall intensity sea level rise offshore wind speed extreme wave height To increase resilience to flooding and coastal change, allowances for climate change should be made in any flood risk assessments. There are allowances for different climate scenarios over different epochs, or periods of time, over the coming century.
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Living Geography
DECEMBER 16, 2024
I was involved in ERASMUS projects for 12 years. It brought me into contact with a great many talented international geographers working for international organisations in various roles. Erasmus+ is an initiative funded by the European Union. It aims to support education, training, and development. It offers opportunities in higher education, school education, vocational education, training, adult education, youth services, and sport.
Anthropology.net
DECEMBER 16, 2024
In a remarkable feat of ancient DNA analysis, researchers have reconstructed the genetic story of a baby boy who lived over 17,000 years ago in Ice Age Europe. The findings, published in Nature Communications 1 , reveal a wealth of information about the boy's ancestry, physical traits, health, and the environment in which he lived, offering a rare glimpse into the lives of prehistoric humans.
Becoming a History Teacher
DECEMBER 16, 2024
Photo by Binti Malu on Pexels.com Every newspaper/ magazine article I read at the moment seems to be a countdown of one sort or another: 10 best fiction books of the year, 20 top gifts for the men in your life, 10 best Christmas movies you should absolutely watch now. Last week, as the first term of the PGCE drew to a close, I asked my beginning teachers to consider how much progress they had made since September.
Political Science Now
DECEMBER 16, 2024
Meet Dr. Cyril Ghosh APSA Member since 2004 Associate Professor and Lloyd B. Politsch ’33 Chair of Law Clark University How did you learn about APSA? When did you become a member of APSA, and what prompted you to join? I started graduate school at Syracuse University in 2001. During my first few years there, several of my professors and mentors encouraged me to start attending conferences.
Living Geography
DECEMBER 16, 2024
There is availability to join me on the Royal Geographical Society's Education Committee, which I joined in June as Vice President Education. We have an important job to do - particularly at the moment with a focus on the Government's Curriculum and Assessment review. The process is explained on the link below if you'd like to put yourself forward. You will need to fill in a few forms online and get them to the Director's office by the 20th of March 2025.
ED Surge
DECEMBER 16, 2024
When she moved her daughter into a reputable private school in Washington at the beginning of the pandemic, Ashley Jochim never imagined that she was preparing her daughter for failure. Jochim, a mother of four and an education researcher, thought her second-grader would do better in the smaller, more flexible environment the private school offered.
Living Geography
DECEMBER 16, 2024
I have a few programmes which I always sit and watch if they are on. They are sometimes called 'slow TV' because nothing much happens in them, but they are also calming as as well as being informative. I am currently on Series 6 of one of them. It is called 'Canal Boat Diaries' and follows the life and travels of Robbie Cumming , who has lived for over ten years aboard his boat which is called the 'Naughty Lass'.
Political Science Now
DECEMBER 16, 2024
How to Be a Good Dissertation Adviser: Guidance From Some of Our Fields Most Successful Mentors By Peter K. Hatemi , The Pennsylvania State University , and Rose McDermott , Brown University The academy has undergone substantial change in the last decade with many new internal and external pressures. Fewer full-time faculty are asked to do much more.
The Hechinger Report
DECEMBER 16, 2024
The number of book bans in schools and libraries nearly tripled during the 2023-24 school year to more than 10,000, across red and blue states, according to a recent PEN America report. But that alarming statistic does not necessarily reflect how most voters feel about this growing form of censorship. As President-elect Donald Trump promises to withhold federal funding from schools that do not comply with executive orders restricting curriculum content, state and local officials must take steps
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