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Reading Skills Are in Sharp Decline. Rescuing Them Won't be Easy.

ED Surge

BROWNSVILLE, Texas Its nearly 5 p.m. on a Friday, and Dolores S. Perez is hard at work in the Brownsville Public Library. Shes also one of the people having the most fun. Parsing education data into snack-sized servings. Perez, known as Ms. D to her pupils, sits at a table with one of the young students she tutors as they clap and sing as part of their lesson.

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The Genomic Legacy of the Picenes: Unraveling Italy’s Forgotten Civilization

Anthropology.net

The Italian Peninsula before the rise of Rome was a tapestry of diverse ethnic groups, each with unique languages, customs, and material cultures. Among them, the Picenes, who thrived along the Middle Adriatic coast from the 9th to 3rd centuries BCE, have remained an enigmatic presence in the historical record. A recent study, The Genomic Portrait of the Picene Culture 1 , published in Genome Biology , attempts to decode their past through ancient DNA analysis.

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GA EDI Report - newly published

Living Geography

When I was serving on the GA's Governing Body , work started on a report exploring the diversity and inclusion of all aspects of the GA's activity. This was going to be produced by a Working Group called the DIWG. It has taken a while to carry out the research that underpins the report. Thanks to all those who were involved in producing this. Thanks to Steve Brace for sending me a copy of the report.

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Surveying the Impact of Generative Artificial Intelligence on Political Science Education

Political Science Now

Surveying the Impact of Generative Artificial Intelligence on Political Science Education By Nicole Wu , University of Toronto , and Patrick Y. Wu , New York University Recent applications of new innovations in artificial intelligence have brought up questions about how this new technology will change the landscape and practices in a wide range of industries and sectors.

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How a Student Innovation Club Harnesses Solar Power for the Community

Digital Promise

The post How a Student Innovation Club Harnesses Solar Power for the Community appeared first on Digital Promise.

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Reconsidering the Political Economy of Care Work

Political Science Now

In the APSA Public Scholarship Program, graduate students in political science produce summaries of new research in the American Political Science Review. This piece, written by Ewa Nizalowska, covers the new article by Alyssa Battistoni, “Ideology at Work? Rethinking Reproduction.” In recent years, Western capitalist states have faced a deepening crisis of care.

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Jimmy Cornelison, Bybee Master Potter, Part Two

Life and Landscapes

Jimmy Cornelison, sixth generation Cornelison family potter. At the 200 year old Bybee Pottery Barn in Bybee, Kentucky. December, 2021. ( click the link or picture below to play my video!

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"Birthright Citizenship" 7 words vs 6 words. Why this change in construction?

Hayward "Blah, Blah, Blah" Blog

Below are two clauses that contain words within a phrase that will be beaten to death in the coming months as the nation mulls the meaning of "Birthright Citizenship". Highlights are mine. BOTH of these documents were proposed and discussed months apart in the SAME Congressional session by the SAME people in 1866.

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Envisioning a More Empathetic Treatment of Great Ape Remains

Sapiens

Many museums are reckoning with the colonial legacies of the human remains and cultural objects in their collections. Now anthropologists are advocating to pay similar respects to primates. HIS SKULL WAS FREE of visible trauma. No bullet holes. No caved-in fractures. Yet he had been shot eight times before he died, and his body was left to hang overnight in a tree.

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