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3 Knowledge Domains For The 21st-Century Student

TeachThought

3 Knowledge Domains For Teaching And Learning by TeachThought Staff Thinking in the 21st century is just different. That doesn’t […] The post 3 Knowledge Domains For The 21st-Century Student appeared first on TeachThought.

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Excavating the Coexistence of Neanderthals and Modern Humans

Sapiens

An archaeologist explains how remains recently recovered from a cave in present-day Germany suggest that Neanderthals and modern humans populated Europe together for at least 10,000 years. This article was originally published at The Conversation and has been republished under Creative Commons. ✽ THE IDEA THAT TWO different human species, Homo sapiens (us) and Neanderthals, coexisted in Western Eurasia 50,000–40,000 years ago has long captured the imagination of academics and the public alike.

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An Educator’s Podcast Aims to Be an Antidote to School Culture Wars

ED Surge

Ken Futernick brings together people who disagree deeply on issues that are most dividing school communities these days — such as teaching about gender and sexual identity or about the history of racism in America. And he records the conversations. You might think the discussions would involve shouting matches or verbal fireworks. But Futernick — a longtime educator who has served as an elementary school teacher, a teacher educator and a leader of a national school turnaround center — aims to ke

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OPINION: After years of silent sacrifices and unseen struggles, Black women are still holding up the child care industry

The Hechinger Report

The impact of Black people in early care and education cannot be overstated. Black women, in particular, have played a crucial role in American society, caring for multiple generations of children. Recent reports indicate that 95 percent of child care workers are female. And although Black people make up only 13 percent of the total U.S. workforce, 18 percent of U.S. child care workers are Black.

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Rising Student Absenteeism: We Need to Change the Way We Do Things

Education Elements

Schools across the country are grappling with fewer students in classrooms, causing a ripple effect on learning, funding, and engagement. Research shows that the number of chronically absent students has nearly doubled , from about 15 percent in the 2018-2019 school year to around 30 percent in 2021-2022. Millions of students miss 10% of the school year or more—whether excused or unexcused—and substantial increases in chronic absenteeism were prevalent across every state that captures this data.

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How to Ensure Your School District is Data Ready

Digital Promise

The post How to Ensure Your School District is Data Ready appeared first on Digital Promise.

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Engaging Adolescent Multilingual Learners

Heinemann Blog

The following is an adapted excerpt from Andrea Honigsfeld’s forthcoming Growing Language and Literacy: Strategies for Secondary Multilingual Learners, Grades 6-12.

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Ancient Riches and Rituals: Discovery of a Gold-Filled Tomb with Sacrificial Victims in Panama

Anthropology.net

Archaeologists in Panama have made a remarkable discovery 1 at El Caño Archaeological Park, unearthing an ancient tomb believed to be approximately 1,200 years old. The tomb, belonging to an elite chief from the Coclé culture, reveals not only a trove of gold treasures but also a haunting glimpse into sacrificial rituals and burial customs of the past.

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Meet Jieun Park, 2023 APSA Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grantee

Political Science Now

The American Political Science Association is pleased to announce the Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant (DDRIG) Awardees for 2023. The APSA DDRIG program provides support to enhance and improve the conduct of doctoral dissertation research in political science. Awards support basic research which is theoretically derived and empirically oriented.

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The American Social History Project/Center for Media and Learning is hiring a new team member!

ASHP CML

The American Social History Project/Center for Media and Learning is hiring a new team member! Tuesday, March 5, 2024 - 14:23 The American Social History Project/Center for Media and Learning is hiring a new team member! If you have experience developing and coordinating digital history projects and a passion for teaching history, apply to become our Assistant Director of Digital Projects.

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Massachusetts Is Investing Big in Early Care and Education. It’s Paying Off.

ED Surge

Five months after federal stabilization grants expired, deeper cracks are beginning to show in the early care and education sector. Without the historic level of operational funding that was distributed monthly to child care programs across the United States through September 2023, many providers are experiencing staff departures and shouldering rising costs, leading many to increase tuition for families and some to close classrooms — or worse, close their doors entirely.

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Anna Lenardson Loves to Learn and Teach

Teaching American History

Anna Lenardson If you ask Anna Lenardson, a 2023 graduate of Ashland University’s Master of Arts in American History and Government (MAHG) program , why she enrolled in the challenging program, she replies, “I love to learn. I loved being with other teachers, talking about history and government.” True, she had to complete a lot of reading before arriving at the weeklong residential summer courses.

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An Outbreak of Selective Attribution: Partisanship and Blame in the COVID-19 Pandemic

Political Science Now

An Outbreak of Selective Attribution: Partisanship and Blame in the COVID-19 Pandemic By Matthew H. Graham , Temple University , and Shikhar Singh , University of Pennsylvania Crises and disasters give voters an opportunity to observe the incumbent’s response and reward or punish them for successes and failures. Yet, even when voters perceive events similarly, they tend to attribute responsibility selectively, disproportionately crediting their party for positive developments and blaming opponen