How We’re Harnessing the Power of Project-Based Learning in the Republic of Georgia
Digital Promise
NOVEMBER 26, 2024
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When Students Miss School, Teachers Enjoy Their Jobs Less
ED Surge
NOVEMBER 26, 2024
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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Neanderthals: The First Fossil Collectors?
Anthropology.net
NOVEMBER 26, 2024
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.
How and When Did Humans First Move Into the Pacific?
Sapiens
NOVEMBER 26, 2024
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.
Bleeding-Edge Praxis: Leveraging Anthropology and Feminist Science for Emerging Issues
Anthropology News
NOVEMBER 26, 2024
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.
RGS-IBG response to the Curriculum and Assessment review
Living Geography
NOVEMBER 26, 2024
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
Towards an Anthropological Praxis of User Data
Anthropology News
NOVEMBER 26, 2024
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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Womens History Today – Autumn 2024 Edition
Women's History Network
NOVEMBER 26, 2024
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.
The stories we tell ourselves
Living Geography
NOVEMBER 26, 2024
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.
Call for Proposals: Approaches to Human Rights Pedagogy
APSA Educate
NOVEMBER 26, 2024
Call for Proposals| APSA Teaching & Learning Symposium: Approaches to Human Rights Pedagogy | Submit your proposal here → APSA Headquarters, Washington, DC | June 19-21, 2025 | Application Deadline: February 24, 2025 The American Political Science Association’s (APSA) Teaching … The post Call for Proposals: Approaches to Human Rights Pedagogy appeared first on APSA.
A World Outside the Classroom: Understanding Faculty Perspectives on Electoral Engagement in the Classroom
Political Science Now
NOVEMBER 26, 2024
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.
The Warriors Path and Civil War General George Morgan’s Retreat!
Life and Landscapes
NOVEMBER 26, 2024
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
This Native American Heritage Month, We Must Confront Our Nation’s Violence (Opinion)
Education Week - Social Studies
NOVEMBER 26, 2024
Presenting students with a fuller, authentic account of U.S. history is no easy task. It is, however, a necessary one.
Going Native: Praxis
Anthropology News
NOVEMBER 26, 2024
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The Many Lives of Sojourner Truth
Teaching American History
NOVEMBER 26, 2024
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.
Facing legal threats, colleges back off race-based programs
The Hechinger Report
NOVEMBER 26, 2024
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.
Post-Election Reflection: An Expert Roundtable: APSA 2024 Engaging the U.S. Election Webinar Series
Political Science Now
NOVEMBER 26, 2024
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?
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