Tue.Nov 26, 2024

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When Students Miss School, Teachers Enjoy Their Jobs Less

ED Surge

Since the pandemic, the number of students who are missing class has risen. More than a quarter of students were “chronically absent,” meaning they had missed 10 percent of classes or more, during the 2021-2022 school year. That was a steep increase from the 15 percent of students missing that much class before the pandemic. In fact, absenteeism has become such a nationally notable problem that it was picked up by the White House in May.

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How and When Did Humans First Move Into the Pacific?

Sapiens

New archaeological research reveals insights into the first-known seafarers to brave ocean crossings from Asia to the Pacific Islands more than 50,000 years ago. This article was originally published at The Conversation and has been republished under Creative Commons. ✽ In the deep human past , highly skilled seafarers made daring crossings from Asia to the Pacific Islands.

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Neanderthals: The First Fossil Collectors?

Anthropology.net

A groundbreaking discovery 1 from Prado Vargas Cave in northern Spain is reshaping perceptions of Neanderthals, highlighting their advanced cognitive and cultural practices. A collection of 15 marine fossils, deliberately transported to the cave over 39,800 to 54,600 years ago, reveals that Neanderthals may have been the first fossil collectors in human evolutionary history.

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How We’re Harnessing the Power of Project-Based Learning in the Republic of Georgia

Digital Promise

The post How We’re Harnessing the Power of Project-Based Learning in the Republic of Georgia appeared first on Digital Promise.

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RGS-IBG response to the Curriculum and Assessment review

Living Geography

A cross-posting from my new(ish) RGS-IBG blog on the Curriculum and Assessment review's Call for Evidence. Following the release of the Geographical Association's response to the Call for Evidence yesterday, today saw the release of the Royal Geographical Society's response, which I had a small part in producing alongside Catherine South and the rest of the Education team - particularly Claire and Simon, Joe Smith, the RGS Education Committee (myself, David, Emma and Emily) and members and Fello

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A World Outside the Classroom: Understanding Faculty Perspectives on Electoral Engagement in the Classroom

Political Science Now

A World Outside the Classroom: Understanding Faculty Perspectives on Electoral Engagement in the Classroom By Rachael Houston , Texas Christian University During each election cycle, resources encourage higher education faculty to integrate electoral engagement initiatives into their classrooms, empowering informed voters. However, not all faculty use these resources.

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Agbogbloshie - old habits die hard, and those involved die young

Living Geography

For about 10 years, we used the area of Agbogbloshie on the edge of the Ghanaian capital city of Accra as an area to study. There was a video on Vimeo called e-Wasteland. It is still available to view. It has no narration, but some text captions and the sounds of the activity in this area. It was made by David Fedele in 2012 - which was when we started using it.

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The Warriors Path and Civil War General George Morgan’s Retreat!

Life and Landscapes

My hike in Paint Gap where Union General George Morgan began his retreat from Cumberland Gap, Kentucky. General Morgan and his 8,600 able men had been had been surrounded by Confederate General Kirby Smith’s Confederate Army when they swept over Cumberland Mountain and invaded Kentucky from Chattanooga. For two weeks and 200 hundred miles, Morgan would elude the Confederates by traveling the rugged trails running across the Eastern Kentucky Mountains until finally reaching the Ohio River a

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This Native American Heritage Month, We Must Confront Our Nation’s Violence (Opinion)

Education Week - Social Studies

Presenting students with a fuller, authentic account of U.S. history is no easy task. It is, however, a necessary one.

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Going Native: Praxis

Anthropology News

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The stories we tell ourselves

Living Geography

A chapter by Nick Dennis from an Open Access UCL Press book on History teaching. A reminder of the importance of stories. the stories we are tell and the stories we are told. (to quote Oliver Jeffers as I have done several times before.

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Womens History Today – Autumn 2024 Edition

Women's History Network

The Autumn 2024 issue of Women’s History Today is now available for purchase or downoad. This special issue of Women’s History Today marks thirty years since the first ‘journal’ was published by the Women’s History Network back in 1994 as Women’s History Notebooks.

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Bleeding-Edge Praxis: Leveraging Anthropology and Feminist Science for Emerging Issues

Anthropology News

In January of 2021, I was employed as a postdoctoral researcher in a division of public health at a medical school. This provided early access to the COVID-19 vaccine. Although there was great discussion of the ethics of receiving vaccines in the early part of the vaccine roll-out, I opted to get the vaccine once it was available for all hospital employees, after prioritizing front-line healthcare workers, the elderly, and other vulnerable groups.

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Facing legal threats, colleges back off race-based programs

The Hechinger Report

As might be expected of someone working toward a Ph.D. in neuroscience at Stanford School of Medicine, Jocelyn Ricard has impressive credentials. There are scholarships — Knight-Hennessy and, last year, a Ford Foundation Fellowship — and publications in journals like Nature Neuroscience and The Lancet Psychiatry. Plus, Ricard has done research at Yale and Cornell; and in Chiang Mai, Thailand; Berlin; and elsewhere.

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Towards an Anthropological Praxis of User Data

Anthropology News

The Inescapable Category of “User” Increasingly—and in unevenly distributed ways—user data informs the borders we’re permitted to cross , the care we’re eligible to receive , and our access to housing , insurance , and employment. Corporations and governments alike now routinely create, purchase, and exchange user data—and not just in the Global North.

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The Many Lives of Sojourner Truth

Teaching American History

Sojourner Truth died on November 26, 1883, aged 86. Yet reports of her death began circulating decades earlier. Abolitionists and women’s rights advocates had built Truth into a prophetic figure, wise and therefore old. Truth, who never learned to read and write, relied on her abolitionist and feminist allies to put her life story into print, primarily through the Narrative of Sojourner Truth.

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Post-Election Reflection: An Expert Roundtable: APSA 2024 Engaging the U.S. Election Webinar Series

Political Science Now

Join APSA for our fifth and final webinar in a series exploring the 2024 U.S. campaign and election from multiple perspectives. Registration is free. How are political science experts reflecting upon with the results and administration of the 2024 election? What can we glean from this election about U.S. electoral behavior? Are there any surprises or learning opportunities?