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Why the Dire State of the Early Learning Workforce Is ‘Alarming and Not Surprising’

ED Surge

The state of early care and education today is, in a word, unsustainable. Thats what a recent survey of 10,000 early childhood educators found, and its what providers continue to share anecdotally. With the pandemic in the rearview and the accompanying funding it brought the field now a fading memory many early education providers find that they cannot keep up with rising costs, staff shortages and low morale.

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Children's Role in Upper Paleolithic Cave Art

Anthropology.net

Deep within the shadowy recesses of Upper Paleolithic caves, ancient artists left behind a legacy of mesmerizing paintings and engravings. Amidst these artworks, evidence suggests the participation of an unexpected group: young children. Handprints, footprints, and finger flutings attributed to individuals as young as two years old adorn the walls of these subterranean galleries.

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APSA Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant Now Accepting Applications | Deadline: June 1, 2025

Political Science Now

The Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant project provides support to enhance and improve the conduct of doctoral dissertation research in political science. Awards support basic research which is theoretically derived and empirically oriented. The APSA Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant program intends to award between twenty and twenty-five yearly of between $10,000 and $15,000 to support doctoral dissertation research that advances knowledge and understanding of citiz

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Rethinking the Dawn of Agriculture: Human Agency in the Neolithic Transition

Anthropology.net

The shift from a hunter-gatherer existence to an agrarian lifestyle stands as one of the most profound transformations in human history. Traditionally, scholars have attributed this Neolithic transition to external factors like climatic shifts or the allure of fertile lands. However, recent research challenges this narrative, emphasizing the pivotal role of human interactions and demographic dynamics in this monumental change.​ Credit: Barnabas Davoti from Pexels Human Dynamics Over Enviro

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The Railroad Tunnel through Pine Mountain, Kentucky

Life and Landscapes

On Thursday, January 29, 1948, the Mountain Eagle newspaper of Whitesburg , Kentucky, reported that, on the following Tuesday, the first train would travel through the 3, 600 feet of tunnel bored through the the 3/4 mile high, linear-straight razor of a Mountain called Pine. It would travel from Jenkins, Kentucky, to the coal fields around Pound, Virginia, where coal seams were reputed to be 15 feet in thickness!

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Call for Pitches: Invisibility

Anthropology News

Submit Posted: 3/31/25 Deadline: 5/1/25 Anthropology News invites submissions on the theme of invisibility. We are looking for stories about the concealed, the ethereal, the ghostlythe things unnoticed (or obscured) that shape our lives. Think unseen labor, subtle evolutionary forces, hidden architectures of mobility, or ciphers illegible to outsiders.

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Next Steps: My Career Moving Forward

Anthropology 365

After graduating high school, I began university in 2003, majoring in biology and psychology. My goal at the time was to work in conservation, ecology, and organismal biology. At the same time as I was attending university, the field was continuing its transition into more a molecular focus. While I am fascinated by molecular biology, that wasn’t what I was passionate about.

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Igniting a National Leadership Movement for AI-Enabled Reading Research

Digital Promise

The post Igniting a National Leadership Movement for AI-Enabled Reading Research appeared first on Digital Promise.

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The Case of Hostile Terrain ’94 at the University of Oregon 

Anthropology News

At the University of Oregon, we built a collaborative team of faculty and museum staff to bring students, campus, and community stakeholders together in planning and implementing an exhibition of an installation of the Undocumented Migration Project (UMP) Hostile Terrain 94 exhibition. The HT94 installation aims to do several things, including to raise awareness during a presidential election season about the realities of the U.S.

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Head Start is turning 60. The federal child care program may not make it to 61 

The Hechinger Report

NEW HAVEN, Conn. Bright morning sun is streaming through her homes windows as Sandra Dill reads a picture book about penguins to a room full of busy toddlers. While listening, the kids blow kisses, plop in a visitors lap, then get up to slide down a small slide. Dill has been running a family child care business from her home for 15 years, and every one of her 13 grandchildren has spent time here currently its 20-month-old Nathaniel, who has a puff of curly hair and a gooey grin.

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Special education and Trump: What parents and schools need to know

The Hechinger Report

President Donald Trump has pledged to shutter the Department of Education but also promised that students with disabilities will keep getting the services they need. Special education advocates, school district officials and teachers say mass federal layoffs mean that too few people are left to carry out a complicated law intended to protect some of the nation’s most vulnerable students’ right to an education.

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