ED Surge

APRIL 3, 2024

Do you recall Mr. Lorensax from “ Ferris Bueller's Day Off ”? Anyone? Bueller? With his monotone voice and lack of enthusiasm, he could convince anyone that history is incredibly boring. Unfortunately, this portrayal isn't unique and reflects a broader issue with how social studies is perceived. As a high school history teacher, whenever I meet new adults and we talk about our professions, I often find myself being met with a familiar reaction: "I disliked the subject in school, but now I find i

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Sapiens

APRIL 3, 2024

Not all fossil discoveries happen in the field. In museum archives, researchers found photos of remains from Paleolithic children who had belonged to a group of early Homo sapiens in Eurasia. Please note that this article includes images of human remains. ANOTHER SET OF TEETH “These teeth don’t belong to Egbert!” In a museum basement, we huddled over a black-and-white photograph showing pieces of a lower jawbone and its loose teeth.

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ED Surge

APRIL 3, 2024

Frankenmuth School District has about 1,400 students, nearly 91 percent of whom are white. Its poverty rate is about 5 percent. In contrast, to its west, Saginaw City School District is home to nearly 5,200 students, 81 percent of them students of color. Its poverty rate is 50 percent. This large economic and racial divide between two adjacent districts in Michigan shows that school segregation persists in the 21st century.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 3, 2024

Interest in artificial intelligence has surged among K-12 and college educators, who are looking at ways it can be used to support both students and teachers. But in the early childhood arena, those discussions are still in the beginning stages. I asked Isabelle Hau, the executive director of Stanford Accelerator for Learning, to share about the potential benefits and challenges of AI in early learning.

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Digital Promise

APRIL 3, 2024

The post Using Data Visualizations to Boost Student Engagement in Humanities appeared first on Digital Promise.

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ED Surge

APRIL 3, 2024

Is your classroom technology falling short of its promise of changing the classroom dynamic? It's a question that often lingers in the background as district leaders navigate the vast array of options available. From projectors to interactive whiteboards, Chromebooks to iPads, the choices seem endless, and personal preferences can be tightly held. In a setting where budgets are tight, the pressure to make the right decision weighs heavily.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 3, 2024

LOS ANGELES — When Abram van der Fluit began teaching science more than two decades ago, he tried to ward off classroom disruption with the threat of suspension: “I had my consequences, and the third consequence was you get referred to the dean,” he recalled. Suspending kids didn’t make them less defiant, he said, but getting them out of the school for a bit made his job easier.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 3, 2024

Congratulations! You got accepted to college. The next notification you’ll get: a financial aid offer, telling you what it will cost. Those financial aid offers are notoriously indecipherable and misleading, making it difficult to make college cost comparisons or even know how much you’ll owe. Often crafted in a way that make a college look more affordable than it is, they’re full of technical jargon and abbreviations.

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Living Geography

APRIL 3, 2024

This piece by David Thomas of the University of Oxford is excellent reading. He starts by mentioning the Dune movies and moves on to an excellent look at how the sand we see is just the top layer of an ancient layer of sand which has many stories to tell. Another reminder that deserts are far from empty.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 3, 2024

Colleges make it hard to even understand what they will cost, with confusing financial aid offers full of indecipherable jargon. But that’s not where the trouble ends. In a kind of bait and switch, for instance, students typically get less institutional financial aid if they return as sophomores, since colleges figure they already have them on the hook, a surprise for which they haven’t budgeted.

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O-Level Geography

APRIL 3, 2024

Taiwan was hit by a 7.4 magnitude earthquake on 3rd April 2024. When did the earthquake occur? Where are the areas affected? Why is the damage greatest at Hualien? What are the impacts of the earthquake? [link] How will the earthquake impact on tourism? Taroko National Park will be closed until April 7 2024. The park named after its landmark gorge will be closed for five days to ensure the safety of tourists.

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Political Science Now

APRIL 3, 2024

War and Nationalism: How WW1 Battle Deaths Fueled Civilians’ Support for the Nazi Party By Alexander De Juan , Osnabrück University , Felix Haass , University of Oslo , Carlo Koos , University of Bergen , Sascha Riaz , University of Oxford , and Thomas Tichelbaecker , Princeton University Can wars breed nationalism? We argue that civilians’ indirect exposure to war fatalities can trigger psychological processes that increase identification with their nation and ultimately strengthen support for

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Perspectives in Anthropology

APRIL 3, 2024

Written by Keith Hart 2.

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Heinemann Blog

APRIL 3, 2024

Heinemann is on YouTube!

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Professional Development 40

Political Science Now

APRIL 3, 2024

The APSA Diversity and Inclusion Advancing Research Grant supports the advancement of research goals and professional development of early career political science scholars. The grant will award scholars whose research areas focus on one of the following target research areas. Apply Now! Target Research Areas: race, ethnicity and politics racial and social justice systemic racism, inequality and inequity gender, sexuality and politics LGBTQ+ politics accessibility politics Qualitative, quantit

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