Digital Promise

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

The post Advancing Digital Equity: Key Insights from the League of Innovative Schools Convening appeared first on Digital Promise.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

In the fall of 2019, four high schools in a San Francisco Bay Area district shook up many of their ninth grade math classes. Students had traditionally been separated into more than five math courses by achievement level, from remedial to very advanced, and the district wanted to test what would happen if they combined their bottom three levels into one.

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Smithsonian Voices | Smithsonian Education

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

In collaboration with USA TODAY, "America’s Veterans: Honor, Service, and Sacrifice" is a tribute to veterans—covering Veterans Day history, personal stories, military branches and awards, and intergenerational activities to honor the legacy of the country's veterans.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

How often have you heard someone say: “I’m just not a math person?” People are reluctant to say they are illiterate but proud to share their low math identity. We tend to think of math as a subject that’s accessible only to certain types of people. But that’s a false assumption, and it’s holding back achievement for far too many students. With the right instructional approach, everyone can learn and do math.

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Anthropology.net

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

The Origins of Burial Practices in Human Evolution Around 120,000 years ago, both Homo sapiens and Neanderthals began practicing intentional burial in the Levant region, shaping a complex cultural narrative in human evolution. This early practice of burying the dead suggests that burial may have emerged from intertwined cultural needs shared between the two species, indicating a surprisingly developed level of ritual and perhaps a response to intensified competition.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Evaluating and validating tech tools takes time and energy — resources that are always in short supply. An overwhelming variety of tools are available, each claiming to improve student outcomes in different ways, making it difficult to discern which will have the most meaningful impact. Added layers of complexity about compatibility, security and cost can lead to decision fatigue.

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Society for Classical Studies

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Introducing the SCS 2024 Census Rachel Philbrick Mon, 11/04/2024 - 11:20

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TCI

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Engaging students is about more than just presenting content. It’s about creating an environment where they actively participate in their learning. This involves encouraging students to talk, debate, and collaborate with their peers, turning passive listening into dynamic interaction. By integrating classroom discussion strategies that promote movement, speaking, and listening, educators can foster critical thinking and deeper engagement with the material.

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Living Geography

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

This Guardian piece explores a project to put a huge area of solar panels into the Mojave Desert in California. This has been positioned as being a positive use of what would otherwise be a 'useless' bit of land, but that assumes that the desert is not an important ecosystem and carbon store.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

As Alexandra Delano prepared to moderate a civil discourse event for fellow students at Providence College in anticipation of the presidential election, some people quipped “good luck with that” or “you’re brave for that.” They predicted that the event, whose blue and red flier read “There’s an election in two weeks? Let’s talk about it!,” would be tense.

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NCHE

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Shauna Liverotti, an education coordinator at NCHE, sat down with me to discuss her views on the current history education landscape. She has over 20 years of experience in the field and has seen the reality of this space change time and again. I wanted to know how the landscape has shifted during her career, particularly since she first collaborated with NCHE as a spotlight educator in 2017.

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Women's History Network

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Scanning Auntie Emmie’s attic with torchlight, a time-worn leather suitcase caught Susan’s eye. Emmie would regularly retrieve the suitcase from the attic, but its contents were never shared. Opening it up carefully, Susan was presented with material traces of a personal story her great-aunt Emmie Chester had only vaguely and fragmentally revealed.

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Living Geography

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

As National Parks turn 75, a new report highlights only 6% of their land is recorded as being in good health for nature - with the Yorkshire Dales having less tree cover than York and waterways across these special places heavily polluted by sewage released from storm overflows. pic.twitter.com/efHAHoGqdj — Channel 4 News (@Channel4News) April 9, 2024 Biodiversity: just 6% of national park land in England and Wales is being managed effectively for nature, say campaigners.

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