ED Surge
FEBRUARY 19, 2025
Reading fluency the ability to read accurately, automatically and with appropriate expression remains a critical yet often overlooked component of literacy development. According to the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), 68 percent of U.S. students are not reading at proficient levels. By fourth grade, students transition from learning to read to reading to learn.
Anthropology.net
FEBRUARY 19, 2025
The Mystery of the Transitional Industries For decades, archaeologists have puzzled over a key moment in prehistory: the transition from the Middle to the Upper Paleolithic, a period marked by the gradual disappearance of Neanderthals and the spread of Homo sapiens across Europe. Central to this debate are two enigmatic stone tool industries, the Châtelperronian and the Uluzzian, both dating to roughly the same period—between 44,000 and 40,000 years ago.
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ED Surge
FEBRUARY 19, 2025
When he teaches a math class, Tom Fisher wants students to feel confused. At least, he wants them to feel that way occasionally and temporarily. Mostly an administrator these days, Fisher still teaches honors algebra at Breakwater, a pre-K-8th independent school in Portland, Maine. For Fisher, its important to mingle math and play. Its not the conventional way to teach the subject, Fisher says.
TeachThought
FEBRUARY 19, 2025
By fostering these skills early, educators can empower students to take ownership of their financial future.
ED Surge
FEBRUARY 19, 2025
Have you ever made a student cry? I have. Earlier this year, one of my fourth grade students kept disrupting my instructions during class. This behavior was unusual for her. I had taught her all of last year, and she had always been attentive and engaged. I tried various classroom management strategies: positive narration, proximity and whole-class attention-getters.
Digital Promise
FEBRUARY 19, 2025
The post 3 Strategies to Achieve Human-Centered Leadership for Digital Transformation appeared first on Digital Promise.
Anthropology.net
FEBRUARY 19, 2025
The Ancient Hearths of Fuente del Salín Fire has long been a cornerstone of human existence, providing warmth, protection, and a means to cook food. But was its use during the Upper Paleolithic purely practical, or did it hold deeper cultural significance? A new study from the Fuente del Salín cave in Cantabria, Spain, seeks to answer this question by examining the role of fire in Gravettian hunter-gatherer life.
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Political Science Now
FEBRUARY 19, 2025
Project Title:Increasing Support for Reconciliation in Settler Colonial Societies: The Role of Informational Interventions Marco Mendoza Avia, Harvard University Marco Mendoza Avia is a third-year Ph.D. candidate and a James M. and Cathleen D. Stone Ph.D. Scholar in Inequality and Wealth Concentration in the Department of Government at Harvard University.
Living Geography
FEBRUARY 19, 2025
Back in the day when there were few geography websites, one of the best was Rob Chambers' GeoBytes. I made use of it quite a lot, especially when Rob taught the same GCSE specs as me, so I could make use of his revision and other materials. There were a range of materials that he created, including a very useful directory of websites. He has now closed the site down.
Political Science Now
FEBRUARY 19, 2025
Populist Attitudes among Teenagers: How Negative Relationships with Socialization Agents Are Linked to Populist Attitudes By Sebastian Jungkunz , University of Duisburg-Essen and Julia Weiss , University of Massachusetts While the origins and consequences of populist attitudes in adults are being studied extensively, it is still unknown when populist attitudes might emerge in a persons life.
Living Geography
FEBRUARY 19, 2025
No Worldly Wednesday today as it's half term. but a new Substack newsletter has now been published.
O-Level Geography
FEBRUARY 19, 2025
Where will the new airport be built? What are the pull factors which attract tourists to Bali? Why is Bali experiencing the stagnation stage in its tourism development? How would the building of the new airport helps Bali to rejuvenate its tourism? What are the positive and negative impacts of the development to Buleleng in Bali, economically, socially and environmentally?
Sapiens
FEBRUARY 19, 2025
When activist and anthropologist Graeber died unexpectedly in 2020, scholars gathered to mourn him. Contributors to a resulting volume, As If Already Free , reflect on his legacy. We both recall the exact moment when we heard that U.S. anthropologist and activist David Graeber had died in Venice, Italy, at the age of 59. I (Holly) remember the cold of the brown leather sofa where I was sitting.
The Hechinger Report
FEBRUARY 19, 2025
HOUSTON When Jefferson Early Learning Center first opened on the corner of a busy intersection in the citys west side in 2022, school officials started receiving calls from irritated residents. It wasnt the increase in traffic or the noise from loud preschoolers that was the source of the callers ire. It was the wild, unkempt landscaping. Residents wanted to know, Why arent you cutting the lawn?
The Hechinger Report
FEBRUARY 19, 2025
Since taking office Jan. 20, President Donald Trump has unleashed a flurry of orders and actions designed to reshape the federal governments role in education. He has called the Education Department a con job and said he wants to close it immediately. That would take an act of Congress; but in the meantime, the administration has taken steps to reshape the agency, overseeing hundreds of millions in cuts to education research, teacher training programs and other projects.
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