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Youth Civic Solutions Winners Shine at NCoC 2024 Conference

Institute for Citizens & Scholars

Citizens & Scholars Youth Civic Solutions Competition winners shared their innovative ideas for civic engagement at the 2024 National Conference on Citizenship.

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From Insights to Action: Students Lead Research on Education Challenges

Digital Promise

Three learners in the League of Innovative Students share reflections and learnings from their research to understand causes of education-related challenges in their communities.

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Butchered Remains at Bronze Age Charterhouse Warren Reveal Prehistoric Atrocity

Anthropology.net

At a site known as Charterhouse Warren in Somerset, England, archaeologists have uncovered a haunting scene from Britain’s Early Bronze Age. The remains of at least 37 individuals—men, women, and children—were found deep within a 15-meter shaft, their bones telling a story of violent death, butchery, and likely cannibalism. This new analysis, published in the journal Antiquity 1 , sheds unsettling light on the darker side of prehistoric human behavior.

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Mapped: The strange link between obesity and corruption

Strange Maps

Country-level corruption is a tough KPI to quantify. So how do organizations like Transparency International and the World Bank do it? Not by comparing the fiscal, economic, and financial data of each country theyd only end up comparing (rotten) apples to (spoiled) oranges. Instead, to arrive at their Corruption Perceptions Index and Control of Corruption Indicator (respectively), they aggregate the opinions of experts in governance and corruption.

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Leaders of Today: Celebrating the Impact of Youth-Led Sustainability Projects

Digital Promise

The post Leaders of Today: Celebrating the Impact of Youth-Led Sustainability Projects appeared first on Digital Promise.

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Climate Change Survey results

Living Geography

The DfE has published the results of a survey of Climate Literacy amongst school leavers. Syliva Knight of the Royal Meteorological Society has responded on her LinkedIn account. She was one of the authors of the report: The DfE have just published the results of the 2023/ 2024 Climate Literacy Survey of school leavers (year 11 students), which builds on the initial survey we developed in 2022.

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Intergenerational Care Benefits Children and Seniors. Why Is It Still So Rare?

ED Surge

Several times a week, teachers at Tiny Images, an early learning program in Fairmont, Nebraska, load up babies and toddlers into four- and six-seater carts and take the children on buggy rides through the building. They stop first to visit residents in the assisted living wing before continuing on to those in the nursing home. Just walking down the hall and seeing kids faces light up or residents faces light up it makes your whole day, says Kaci Brandt, director of Tiny Images, which is locate

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Introducing our Spring 2025 Webinar Series, Books that Changed the National Conversation

Teaching American History

For the past year, Teaching American Historys webinars have been about the presidential election. Last spring, we broke down the presidential election cycle. We spent this fall diving into the rhetorical traditions of American politics. We dont know about you guys, but we need a break from politics! So lets take a step back and look back at an entirely different aspect of US history.

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CFP: NYU Graduate Collective for Ancient Studies Undergraduate Conference 2025

Society for Classical Studies

CFP: NYU Graduate Collective for Ancient Studies Undergraduate Conference 2025 kskordal Tue, 12/17/2024 - 08:14 Image The NYU Graduate Collective for Ancient Studies (GCAS), formerly the Society for Ancient Studies, is a cross-departmental graduate student group at New York University seeking to foster an interdisciplinary community of scholars with interests in the ancient world.

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Remembering Nikki Giovanni (1943-2024)

ASHP CML

Its a season of change: a new year and a new presidential administration; changes in political power throughout the world; climate change; technological changes, and more. The ASHP staff knows that such changes dont emerge overnight; as we look backward and ahead, we remain committed to making our work as history educators help generate greater understanding of the current historical moment.

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Lessons From Dragons: Teaching Political Science With HBO’s House of the Dragon

Political Science Now

Lessons From Dragons: Teaching Political Science With HBOs House of the Dragon By Zach Lang , University of Missouri and Ronnie Olesker , St. Lawrence University This paper analyzes the first season of House of the Dragon (HOTD) with two goals in mind. First, we demonstrate how pop culture is impacted by real-world politics by examining the change in gender and racial representation in HOTD as compared to Game of Thrones (GOT).

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Looking for internships? They are in short supply

The Hechinger Report

Not only are there growing concerns about the supply of apprenticeships meeting demand; theres a shortage of another important workforce training tool internships. There were an estimated 5.7 million fewer high-quality internships last year than learners who wanted to intern, according to the Business-Higher Education Forum, or BHEF. Employers last year provided 2.5 million high-quality internships, compared to 8.2 million people who wanted one, the BHEF found.

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How to Use Carbon Brief’s Attribution Interactive Part 1 – How Climate Change is Impacting Extreme Event Trends

Geogramblings

Welcome to this mini-series giving teaching ideas for Carbon Brief’s Extreme Weather Attribution Interactive Map. A little while ago I made a #GeogramblingsReacts video on the map’s release. If you haven’t heard of Carbon Brief or their extreme event attribution interactive map before, then best give the short video below a watch before you go on.

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Flood risk - a new Environment Agency report

Living Geography

According to this BBC report a report from the Environment Agency suggests that as many as one in four properties could be at risk of flooding by 2050. This is not necessarily increased because of more river and coastal flooding, but due to an increased risk of surface water flooding: due to more extreme rainfall events and changing urban infrastructure (as well as new homes being built on floodplains.

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Apprenticeships are a trending alternative to college — but there’s a hitch

The Hechinger Report

Joey Cook was 17 and a junior in high school when he heard about a way to learn a profession while getting paid: by landing an apprenticeship, a path into the workforce that everyone was suddenly talking about as an alternative to college. I didnt want to go get an associate degree. I didnt want to get a bachelors degree, said Cook. He wanted to get a certification in heating, ventilation and air-conditioning, an in-demand field in his rural western Texas hometown of Hamlin.