The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Higher Education newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes every other Thursday with trends and top stories about higher education. Erika Turner and her husband have 11 children between them. Four of them are already in college, two are graduating from high school this spring, and her husband has gone back to school in pursuit of a bachelor’s degree.

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ShortCutsTV

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Most a-level teachers and students will probably be most familiar with Per-Olof Wikstrom’s work on the Peterborough Adolescent Development Study (PADS), a longitudinal study of youth crime in a “provincial English town”. One that sits mid-way between the teeming Birmingham metropolis and Norwich.

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Heinemann Blog

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Navigating a multilingual classroom offers a unique set of challenges, but with the right strategies, educators can foster an environment that enhances fluency and expands vocabulary across multiple languages, such as English and Spanish. Here are 5 effective ways to achieve these goals.

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Political Science Now

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Contributions by Scholars of Color Interview Series: Highlights from Dr. Elsie Scott, Howard University Dr. Elsie Scott is the Director of the Ronald Walters Leadership and Public Policy Center at Howard University. She further discusses the political environment during her graduate school experience and her involvement in activism. My father’s activism taught me that you shouldn’t just accept things because maybe that’s what the state law said or even what the federal law said

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Oral History Political Science History Leadership 52

Anthropology.net

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Vittrup Man, a Stone Age individual sacrificed in Denmark, unveils a captivating tale of migration and dietary evolution, as revealed by a recent study 1 led by Anders Fischer and colleagues from the University of Gothenburg. The Journey of Vittrup Man Vittrup Man's remains were discovered in a peat bog in Northwest Denmark, dating back to 3300-3100 BC.

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History Cultures 52

Society for Classical Studies

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

CFP: CAAS 2024 Annual Meeting, Deadline Extended to March 4 kskordal Fri, 02/23/2024 - 09:04 Image The Classical Association of the Atlantic States (CAAS) has extended the deadline for all individual, panel, and workshop proposals for CAAS 2024. The new deadline for all proposals is Monday, March 4, 2024. Learn more and see the updated CFP on the CAAS website.

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Anthropology.net

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

In a groundbreaking collaborative effort, researchers from the University of Pennsylvania have delved into the intricate world of skin color variation among African populations. Their study, published in Nature Genetics 1 , provides a deeper understanding of the genetic factors shaping contemporary human skin tones and sheds light on the fascinating journey of human evolution.

Humanities 52

Humanities History Research 52

Zinn Education Project

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

By Mary Beth Tinker This February 24th marks 55 years since the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Tinker v. Des Moines that “state operated schools may not be enclaves of totalitarianism” and that public school students are “persons under our constitution, possessed of fundamental rights,” as Justice Abe Fortas wrote for the 7–2 majority. Mary Beth Tinker and her brother, John, display two black armbands, the objects of the U.S.

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Archiving K-12 Government Public School 138

Zinn Education Project

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

By Mary Beth Tinker This February 24th marks 55 years since the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Tinker v. Des Moines that “state operated schools may not be enclaves of totalitarianism” and that public school students are “persons under our constitution, possessed of fundamental rights,” as Justice Abe Fortas wrote for the 7–2 majority. Mary Beth Tinker and her brother, John, display two black armbands, the objects of the U.S.

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