The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 1, 2025

This story about eighth grade algebra was produced by The Hechinger Report , a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education. Sign up for the Hechinger newsletter. BRAHAM, Minn. It was fourth-period Basic Algebra 8 class on a gray October morning at Braham Area High School. Teacher Rick Riccio had assigned an exercise on converting large integers to scientific notation, but fifteen minutes in, some students had lost focus.

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Anthropology.net

JANUARY 1, 2025

In the deserts of northern Peru, the remains of an ancient dynasty have been uncovered, their DNA revealing a story of power, sacrifice, and family. A recent study led by Harvard University researchers explored an elite burial group at Huaca Cao Viejo, a ceremonial site of the Moche culture, dating to around 500 CE. Their findings, published in PNAS 1 , confirm that family relationships played a central role in consolidating status and power within this ancient civilization.

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Zinn Education Project

JANUARY 1, 2025

It is more important than ever for students today to learn peoples history a history that looks honestly at the roots of inequality and shares lessons about how people can organize to make the world a better place. But truth telling in the classroom is under threat by right wing legislators. Lawmakers are trying to restrict teaching honestly about U.S. history.

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ShortCutsTV

JANUARY 1, 2025

Many of our Psychology films reference material from the past, either in the shape of psychological research or simply as background to a particular time period and this gives me the opportunity to spend time combing through sites like the Internet Archive looking for old film.

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Living Geography

JANUARY 1, 2025

2025 is a time to take stock. We are a quarter of the way through the century, and the last few years have been a bit of a roller coaster ride for the planet, and not in a good way. Whatever you are up to, don't forget to sign up to my new Substack, which is now available for you to read. For years, this blog had an option to subscribe using Feedburner.

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Perspectives in Anthropology

JANUARY 1, 2025

Written by Neil Turner The study of Maroon sites is a rich and virtually untapped area that can advance our knowledge of enslaved Africans in the Americas.

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Living Geography

JANUARY 1, 2025

An Unherd post from the farmer and best-selling author James Rebanks on the precarious state of the UK's food security. He suggests that the food supply chain that we assume will always provide food to fill our supermarket shelves is far from stable. Britain probably has less than a week of food supplies. The only food in the UK is whats on the shelves of our supermarkets now, and whats in their lorries on the way to the shops.

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