World History Teachers Blog
JANUARY 16, 2025
This MIT site " Visualizing Cultures ," is a great resource for World History and AP World when studying imperialism. The site includes outstanding visual narratives on which curriculum units are based. Most of the curriculum units ask students to analyze various images. Some of the units include the rise and fall of the Canton Trade System and the First Opium War.
The Hechinger Report
JANUARY 13, 2025
A trio of researchers argues that it’s unclear where students with disabilities learn the most and recommends that teachers and parents focus first on interventions students need. Credit: Getty images A prominent professor of special education is about to ignite a fierce debate over a tenet of his field, that students with disabilities should be educated as much as possible alongside their peers in general education classrooms, a strategy known as inclusion.
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ED Surge
JANUARY 15, 2025
The lights dimmed, and the audience fell silent. It was a cold January afternoon in 2007, and I was sitting in a crowded auditorium in Providence, Rhode Island, nervously thinking about the week ahead. In just a few days, Id travel across the world and step into a classroom for the first time as a student teachera dream years in the making that suddenly felt overwhelming.
Anthropology News
JANUARY 16, 2025
When someone disappears without a trace, what remains are their possessions objects that become anchors for memory and vessels for unresolved grief. The human urge to collect and preserve objects, what Jacques Derrida calls archive fever , takeson special significance when there is no body to bury, no grave to visit. This ethnography explores one such case of preservation: my grandmother’s decades-long stewardship of my grandfather’s wardrobe after his disappearance in the 1974 con
Sapiens
JANUARY 13, 2025
A translators notes are refashioned into a poem calling for justice for Indigenous peoples in the Philippines displaced by a megadam. Translation Notes is part of the collection Poets Resist, Refuse, and Find a Way Through. Read the introduction to the collection here. In November 2023 , Ian Fry , the first U.N. Special Rapporteur on Climate Change and Human Rights, met with stakeholders in the Philippines to report on the status of the country regarding environmental and human rights protectio
The Hechinger Report
JANUARY 15, 2025
CHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand Many students in New Zealand have a story to tell about streaming being grouped into separate math classes based on their perceived ability to master the subject. Manaaki Waretini-Beaumont, now 18 and an environmental science major at the University of Canterbury, learned about the downside of streaming when she enrolled in Avonside Girls, a 1,000-student high school in Christchurch.
ED Surge
JANUARY 16, 2025
I was recently sitting with my friends 9-year-old son, Guillermo, as he teed up a YouTube video on the TV. Id wanted to get a kids perspective on brain rot, Oxford University Press 2024 word of the year that describes both low-quality video content and what seemingly happens to the mind after watching too much of it. Naturally, I sought out someone with on-the-ground experience.
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Anthropology.net
JANUARY 16, 2025
In a quiet corner of Dorset, a burial site has rewritten what we know about Iron Age Britain. By sequencing DNA from 50 individuals interred over centuries, researchers discovered 1 a striking social structure: women, not men, were at the heart of these communities. Excavating a Late Iron Age Durotriges burial at Winterborne Kingston. Credit: Miles Russell/Bournemouth University A study led by Dr.
History Havoc
JANUARY 12, 2025
One of the books I have taught for the past decade has been The Jungle by Upton Sinclair. Every year I talk about how the book helped pass legislation dealing with food preparation. As a class we read tiny segments of it and some students find the segments quite gross. It is never fun to talk about rats falling into the sausage and nobody taking them out just before going to lunch.
ED Surge
JANUARY 14, 2025
A typical career trajectory in early care and education might follow like this: start as an assistant teacher in a classroom, eventually gain the experience to move up to lead teacher, and if youre ambitious and able, one day become the assistant director, director or even owner of a program. On paper, it seems reasonable. Each role, over time, equips the educator to step into the next one, right?
World History Teachers Blog
JANUARY 15, 2025
Here is an excellent 14-minute clip about the Meiji Revolution from the Pacific Century, the 1992 PBS 10-part documentary about the rise of the Pacific Rim. Part two, from which the attached clip comes, is about the Meiji Revolution. It is dated but still does a good job. It begins in 1868 when Mutsuhito became the Meiji Emperor.
Anthropology.net
JANUARY 17, 2025
Nearly two million years ago, in the high-altitude landscape of the Ethiopian Highlands, early human ancestors at the Acheulian site of Melka Wakena weren’t simply grabbing the nearest stones to use as tools. Instead, their actions demonstrate a deep understanding of material properties and a sophisticated ability to plan for specific tasks. This discovery, published in PLOS ONE 1 , sheds light on the cognitive capabilities of early Acheulian toolmakers.
Strange Maps
JANUARY 17, 2025
Except for things at the extreme ends of observation, everything of consequence has already been discovered. At least, thats how it seems sometimes. But even without a particle collider or a next-generation telescope , exciting discoveries can still be made. Discoveries like a decent-sized Mayan city, and sometimes, all it takes is a simple Google search.
ED Surge
JANUARY 13, 2025
Schools should provide a window through which all students can see the future they want for themselves. Students arrive in the classroom with a diverse range of needs, and helping them succeed isnt always straightforward. Centering instruction in Universal Design for Learning (UDL) and implementing both direct and student-driven instruction can help engage learners, address diverse needs and improve learning outcomes for all students.
Anthropology News
JANUARY 17, 2025
Issued: January 17, 2025 Pitches due: rolling until February 7, 2025 First drafts due: 3 weeks after pitch decision Submit Here Anthropology News invites submissions on the theme of signal/noise. We are looking for stories about how communities, cultures, and individuals distinguish meaningful patterns from background noise, interpret disruptions, and find (dis)connection amid interference.
Anthropology.net
JANUARY 16, 2025
Nearly 5,000 years ago, an island community in what is now Denmark faced a darkened sky and dwindling harvests. Archaeologists believe they turned to an extraordinary ritual 1 , burying hundreds of engraved stones adorned with sun and plant motifs as an offering to restore balance. Recent findings from Bornholm, a Danish island in the Baltic Sea, suggest these decorated stones—known as "sun stones"—may have been linked to a massive volcanic eruption.
Digital Promise
JANUARY 14, 2025
The post Unlocking the Power of Human Connection in the Age of Technology appeared first on Digital Promise.
ED Surge
JANUARY 17, 2025
Can I have your attention? The challenge of getting and keeping the attention of students in schools and colleges was the topic of several of our most popular episodes of the EdSurge Podcast over the past year. Part of that involved the question of whether schools should ban smartphones one of the biggest policy debates of the year in K-12 education.
Anthropology News
JANUARY 16, 2025
Gabriela, an 81-year-old-woman, showed some resistance in the dimly lit room of the dilapidated long-term care facility. Amidst peeling walls, and an air saturated with neglect, nurse Luz struggled to pin Gabrielas arms to the bed rail, trying to restrain her movements so she could administer her medications without interruption. With inadequate resources and no affordable harnesses available, Luz resorted to using cloth rags.
TCI
JANUARY 14, 2025
Engaging students in social studies goes beyond simply covering the material; its about helping them connect historical events to current issues and develop critical thinking skills. In todays rapidly changing world, students need more than just facts to succeed. Investing in high-quality instructional materials (HQIM) for social studies is essential for enhancing student achievement, fostering critical thinking, and closing the educational achievement gap.
Maitri Learning
JANUARY 12, 2025
Recent advances in neuroscience are revealing what Montessori educators have known for over a century - that learning is deeply connected to emotion, relationships, and the integration of mind and body. At the recent Montessori Schools of Massachusetts conference, I shared how cutting-edge brain research aligns with and validates core Montessori principles.
ED Surge
JANUARY 14, 2025
Donora, Pennsylvania, once housed a thriving steel mill that stretched for about four miles, though that factory closed more than 50 years ago. Today, the town of about 5,000 people has no gas station, no bank and no grocery store. And just a few years ago its only school closed. The shuttering of that school was particularly tough for a community that has been in decline for decades.
Political Science Now
JANUARY 16, 2025
Can Autocracy Handle Climate Change? By Shiran Victoria Shen , Stanford University Existing literature on climate politics predominantly concentrates on democracies. However, there is a pressing need to examine how authoritarian regimes respond to climate change, given their growing impact on global carbon emissions and their populations acute climate vulnerability.
Living Geography
JANUARY 15, 2025
Not a new post - a few years old - but relevant today when teaching about the geography of our consumption and the impact it has on the planet. Visual Capitalist has produced a striking visualisation of which parts of the planet have been most affected by human activity.
Digital Promise
JANUARY 16, 2025
When we invite students in as R&D partners and honor their lived experience as experts, novel and groundbreaking solutions can emerge.
Society for Classical Studies
JANUARY 16, 2025
From President Kirk Ormand: The Future of the Annual Meeting kskordal Thu, 01/16/2025 - 08:43 Image Dear Colleagues, As I write this, the fires in southern California are still raging, and largely uncontrolled. Many thousands have lost their homes and their livelihoods in what will be a defining natural disaster for 2025. Among them are surely large numbers of our colleagues, friends, and students.
Political Science Now
JANUARY 17, 2025
Citations to the Publications of Male and Female Political Scientists Revisited By Kim Quaile Hill , Texas A&M University Prior research finds that women earn fewer citations than men for their publications, and it offers various reasons why this is the case. This study provides new evidence on these citation differences from two datasets on career citations earned by male and female political scientists.
Living Geography
JANUARY 11, 2025
A cross-posting from my Passed the point of no return blog. This piece in 'The Guardian' by Damien Gayle demonstrates the tremendous gulf between the super-rich and the average person. The worlds richest 1% have already used up their fair share of the global carbon budget for 2025, just 10 days into the year. In less than a week and a half, the consumption habits of an individual from this monied elite had already caused, on average, 2.1 tonnes of carbon dioxide emissions, according to analysis
Maitri Learning
JANUARY 16, 2025
Teachers often ask me what level elementary teachers expect their first year students to arrive with. In many schools, the elementary teachers are hoping for solid phonetic readers. But from there, their materials often jump straight into sentence (or multi-sentence) level reading. That can be a bit of a stretch for the young child. If you find yourself in that situation, here are some things that might help.
Society for Classical Studies
JANUARY 17, 2025
2025 ACLS Leading Edge Fellowships kskordal Fri, 01/17/2025 - 09:03 Image The American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) announces the seventh competition for Leading Edge Fellowships , made possible by the generous support of the Mellon Foundation. The program demonstrates the dynamic capacity of the humanities to advance justice and equity in society and illuminates career pathways for recent PhDs beyond the academy.
ShortCutsTV
JANUARY 14, 2025
The first part of this post provided some background to Mischel et als (1990) Marshmallow Test and started to question the idea it could be used to predict things like future academic performance.
Living Geography
JANUARY 11, 2025
Thanks to Rob Chambers for the tipoff to this piece on The Conversation. It explains that there are lots of species who reach the tolerance limts for their continued survival at similar temperatures, which means that if these temperatures are reached, ecosystem collapse can happen quickly. Which is less than ideal.
Political Science Now
JANUARY 15, 2025
Best Practices and the Need for Research on MA Degree Programs in Political Science By Jennifer L. De Maio and Alexandra Macias , California State University, Northridge Recent research suggests that masters (MA) education in the United States could be restructured to better meet the expectations of students who seek nonacademic careers. This article considers the state of terminal MA degree programs in political science to assess whether they are preparing students to enter the workforce.
Society for Classical Studies
JANUARY 15, 2025
Blog: Greek Myth, Martha Graham, and the Society for Classical Studies: Classicists, Archaeologists, and the Public in Philadelphia Enthralled by Martha Graham Dance Company Performance Ronnie Ancona Wed, 01/15/2025 - 11:39
Life and Landscapes
JANUARY 16, 2025
LUCY, ABE’S OTHER GRANDMOTHER The one you don’t want to talk about. The mother of Nancy Hanks, who was the mother of Abraham Lincoln [our Abe, not his Revolutionary War grandfather]. The one our Abe was concerned about. Worried that his mother had been born out of wedlock and brought here by her mother, Lucy, to escape the moral condemnation in Virginia, only to find it again here in Kentucky.
Living Geography
JANUARY 16, 2025
The true cost of AI will reveal itself in the coming years, but we are already aware of the energy cost required to produce pointless outputs in response to pointless questions. I am currently writing some resources for a MOOC on how AI should be used ethically. If a school has a curriculum which is based around notions of sustainability , should there be a policy about the use of AI when each query has an energy cost?
Political Science Now
JANUARY 17, 2025
The APSA Committee on the Status of First Generation Scholars in the Profession works to bring focused attention to the ways in which class, economic inequality, and mobility can effect political scientists ability to thrive educationally and professionally throughout their careers. In December 2024, the Committee matched donations to the APSA Annual Fund to support the professional development of 38 first generation scholars in the political science discipline.
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