ED Surge
MAY 1, 2024
Throughout this academic year, I facilitated a training session on social-emotional learning (SEL) strategies for educators at a high-needs elementary school. During one of the sessions, a seasoned teacher's candid remarks struck a chord. He explicitly stated, “I know that that is what the book says we should do, but these kids are from Brownsville.
Geography Education
MAY 1, 2024
“ The news that the world has America, not Italy, to thank for the tomato base on pizza has gone down about as well as putting cream in carbonara among Italian gastro-nationalists. In a new book called La Cucina Italiana Non Esiste (literally “Italian Cuisine Does Not Exist”), food historian Alberto Grandi claims, among other things, that Italians only discovered tomato sauce when they emigrated to the Americas, where tomatoes are native, in the 19th century.
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ED Surge
MAY 1, 2024
When pueblos in New Mexico looked into running fiber into Jemez Day School, a K-6 school run by the Bureau of Indian Education, they were launching a complicated process. Upgrading the school’s connection meant jumping through hoops, even though there was fiber across the street. Early on, the U.S. federal government’s E-Rate program, which provides “universal service” funding to schools and libraries for telecommunications and internet, also said it wouldn’t pay for another project.
The Hechinger Report
MAY 1, 2024
A record share of children – about 35 percent of 4-year-olds and 7 percent of 3-year-olds – were enrolled in a state-funded preschool program last academic year , according to the 2023 State of Preschool report published last month by the National Institute for Early Education Research at Rutgers University. Notably, though, the actual number of 4-year-olds enrolled in state-funded pre-K is lower than pre-pandemic levels due to declining birth rates.
ED Surge
MAY 1, 2024
The advancements in technology are reshaping how we teach and learn, bringing new opportunities and challenges. To address such challenges, a concerted effort must be made to ensure that newer technologies are implemented thoughtfully and responsibly, with a focus on enhancing the educational experience for all students. Collaboration and open dialogue are key as we navigate this terrain, ensuring innovation meets the needs of today's educational institutions.
Strange Maps
MAY 1, 2024
There was no internet during the Enlightenment, but something surprisingly similar did exist in the 17th and 18th centuries. This was the Republic of Letters: a virtual, global community of scientists and intellectuals who exchanged information using the fastest technology available at the time — the postal service. 15,000 letters The clue is in the name: letters tied this self-proclaimed, transnational society together.
Digital Promise
MAY 1, 2024
The post 3 Ways We’re Engaging Educators in Learning Sciences Research appeared first on Digital Promise.
Social Studies Network brings together the best content for social studies educators from the widest variety of thought leaders.
Living Geography
MAY 1, 2024
A new version of the classic board game 'Catan' is coming out soon. Various websites give different dates. It can be pre-ordered from a number of places. I'm definitely interested in this. It’s the 21st Century and Catan is at a crossroads. Long gone is the agrarian society of the island’s Viking ancestors. Today’s Catanians need energy to keep society moving and growing, but pollution is wreaking havoc on the island.
Heinemann Blog
MAY 1, 2024
Unpack the importance of embracing, not resisting, AI programs in the writing classroom. A 3-part series by Dennis Magliozzi and Kristina Peterson.
Society for Classical Studies
MAY 1, 2024
Historical Marker Dedication: John Wesley Gilbert (c.1863 – 1923) kskordal Wed, 05/01/2024 - 08:33 Image Georgia Historical Society Historical Marker Dedication: John Wesley Gilbert (c.1863 – 1923) Thursday, May 2, 2024, at 10:30 a.m. Paine College’s Gilbert-Lambuth Memorial Chapel, off Druid Park Avenue in Augusta, Georgia, 30901 Dedicated by the Georgia Historical Society, the Lucy Craft Laney Museum of Black History, Paine College, and the American School of Classical Studies at Athens.
The Hechinger Report
MAY 1, 2024
The April 18 protests at Columbia University over the war in Gaza and Columbia’s investment in weapons manufacturers and companies doing business in Israel led to more than 100 arrests , and sparked widespread unrest not seen on campuses in decades. Barnard College, which is affiliated with Columbia, suspended at least 53 students and evicted them from their dorms, cut off their meal plans and barred them from campus.
Perspectives in Anthropology
MAY 1, 2024
Written by Keith Hart 4. Sex divisions in the Caribbean and West Africa I spent two years of fieldwork in Ghana for my PhD and published a book, The Political Economy of Agriculture, plus several articles on Ghana’s urban informal economy.
Political Science Now
MAY 1, 2024
Natalia Adams, Wake Forest University Natalia Adams is a rising senior at Wake Forest University majoring in politics and international affairs with minors in anthropology and Spanish. She is a 4-time Dean’s List recipient and has been awarded the Porter B. Byrum and Andrew B. McMerty Scholarships. Additionally, she is a member of the Pi Sigma Alpha Political Science Honor Society.
Zinn Education Project
MAY 1, 2024
We need to turn out in numbers as they did in Lowndes County, Alabama, on election day in 1966 — or young people won’t even be allowed to learn this history. Photo by Jim Peppler, ADAH. We urgently need to turn up for school board races. Each vote truly makes a difference. Across the country, right-wing politicians have been passing anti-history, anti-truth legislation in the guise of banning “divisive” curricula.
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