6 Domains Of Cognition: The Heick Learning Taxonomy
TeachThought
MARCH 17, 2025
The Heick Learning Taxonomy can be used to guide planning, assessment, curriculum design, and self-directed learning.
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What Will Districts Do With All Those Empty School Buildings? Some Look to Fill Them With Younger Kids
ED Surge
MARCH 17, 2025
Several years ago, Oklahoma City Public Schools shuttered more than a dozen of its school buildings. It was part of a realignment process in the district to right-size student populations within schools some were overcrowded, others were underenrolled and to make the school experience better and more consistent for students across the city. But what to do with all of those empty buildings?
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King of the North: Martin Luther King’s Freedom Struggle Outside of the South
Zinn Education Project
MARCH 19, 2025
On Monday, March 24, 2025 , historian Jeanne Theoharis and Rethinking Schools editorJesse Hagopian will discuss Theohariss book, King of the North: Martin Luther King Jr.s Life of Struggle Outside the South. Jeanne Theoharis is a distinguished professor at Brooklyn College. She is the author or co-author of numerous books and articles on the Civil Rights and Black Power movements and the politics of race and education.
Most college students are taking online classes, but they’re paying just as much as in-person students
The Hechinger Report
MARCH 15, 2025
Emma Bittner considered getting a masters degree in public health at a nearby university, but the in-person program cost tens of thousands of dollars more than she had hoped to spend. So she checked out masters degrees she could pursue remotely, on her laptop, which she was sure would be much cheaper. The price for the same degree, online, was just as much.
A Forgotten Chapter in Human Evolution: The Hidden Ancestry of Modern Humans
Anthropology.net
MARCH 18, 2025
For decades, the story of modern human origins seemed relatively straightforward: Homo sapiens emerged in Africa roughly 300,000 years ago, evolving as a single, continuous lineage before expanding across the globe. But new research suggests that this narrative is missing an entire chapter. Modern humans descended from not one, but at least two ancestral populations that drifted apart and later reconnected, long before modern humans spread across the globe.
As the Teacher Shortage Crisis Deepens in Ohio, Immigrant Educators Could Be the Answer
ED Surge
MARCH 19, 2025
In the 2021-2022 academic year, the Ohio Department of Education and Workforce found more than 43,000 individuals with active teaching credentials were not employed as teachers or staff members in a public school. Furthermore, the Thomas Fordham Institute describes Ohios teacher shortage as unclear due to a lack of data that could shed light on why teachers are leaving, the challenges schools face in the hiring process and the hiring trends across different schools.
60 Critical Thinking Strategies For Learning
TeachThought
MARCH 19, 2025
Critical thinking strategies often employ multiple data sources and perspectives in pursuit of understanding.
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When Did Humans First Make Stone Tools? New Research Suggests They Didn’t—At First
Anthropology.net
MARCH 18, 2025
For decades, archaeologists have puzzled over one of humanity’s most crucial technological leaps—when and how early humans began making sharp stone tools. A new study proposes an unexpected answer: before hominins ever struck two rocks together, they may have been using naturally occurring sharp stones to butcher meat and process plants.
For Families, School Choice Doesn't Mean Easy Decisions
ED Surge
MARCH 20, 2025
In late January, the White House instructed the Department of Defense to craft a plan that would make funds available for military families to pay for public charters and private religious schools. Its part of the administrations push to decentralize education, which comes along with a burst of energy for school choice options around the country. The administration argues that unlocking funding will give families options and lead to better outcomes.
Common Mistakes In Data Annotation Projects
TeachThought
MARCH 18, 2025
Bad data annotation weakens AI. Learn common mistakes, how to fix them, and build reliable datasets for accurate machine learning models.
OPINION: The demographic cliff in higher education should be seen as an opportunity, not a crisis
The Hechinger Report
MARCH 16, 2025
This spring, the number of high school graduates in the United States is expected to hit its peak. Starting in the fall, enrollment will likely enter a period of decline that could last a decade or more. This looming demographic cliff has been on the minds of education leaders for nearly two decades, dating back to the start of the Great Recession. A raft of college closures over the past five years, exacerbated by the pandemic, has for many observers been the canary in the coal mine.
Respecting the Dead: The Ethics of Human Skeletal Research and Curation
Anthropology.net
MARCH 15, 2025
The human skeleton has long been a resource for science, offering insights into disease, migration, and evolution. But behind every collection of bones stored in laboratories and museums lies a deeper story—one of power, consent, and ethics. A recent paper in the American Journal of Biological Anthropology urges anthropologists and anatomists to confront the legacy of human skeletal collections and calls for a new ethical framework that prioritizes transparency, community collaboration, an
Why Digital Fluency, Adaptability and AI-Powered Learning Matter More Than Ever
ED Surge
MARCH 17, 2025
The future isnt just approaching its moving fast. As industries evolve and workforce demands shift, schools and districts have a critical role in ensuring students are prepared for whats ahead. Traditional education models, which focus on knowledge retention alone, arent enough. Students need digital fluency and adaptability to succeed in an era of constant technological change.
Manchurian Crisis & Rape of Nanking
World History Teachers Blog
MARCH 19, 2025
Here are two video clips about Japanese imperialism during the interwar period. The first reviews the Manchurian crisis and the failure of the League of Nations while the second, from CCTV News, speaks to eyewitnesses about the Nanking Massacre.
Call for Applications: 2025 APSA Advancing Research Grant for Early-Career Scholars | Deadline: May 6, 2025
Political Science Now
MARCH 18, 2025
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. Applications are due May 6, 2025. Apply Now ! In this application cycle, the grant will support early career scholars whose research focuses on one or more of the following target research areas : race, ethnicity and polit
Brigadier Ronald R. Van Stockum, U.S.Marine Corps (Retired) Obituary
Life and Landscapes
MARCH 17, 2025
Brigadier General Ronald R. Van Stockum, U. S. Marine Corps (Retired) Brigadier General Ronald R. Van Stockum died peacefully in his sleep on April 24, 2022, in Shelby County, Kentucky. He was born in Cambridgeshire, England on July 8, 1916. His father, Sergeant Reginald Bareham, had died a week earlier in the great Battle of the Somme, July 1, 1916, where 19,240 British soldiers had been killed in a single day.
The Politics of Pottery: How Ceramics Mapped the Borders of El Argar’s Bronze Age World
Anthropology.net
MARCH 17, 2025
Some 4,000 years ago, the southeastern corner of the Iberian Peninsula was home to one of Europe’s first state-level societies: El Argar. From its fortified hilltop settlements, this Bronze Age power controlled vast territories, imposing its influence over neighboring groups through trade, warfare, and the steady flow of resources like metal, textiles, and ceramics.
Curriculum and Assessment Review Interim Report
Living Geography
MARCH 19, 2025
The long(ish) awaited interim report of the Curriculum and Assessment Review chaired by Becky Francis was published yesterday afternoon. The following text is from the DfE Press release accompanying the downloads. My emboldening and emphases. The curriculum and assessment review interim report , finds the current system is not delivering for every child, as it sets out its next phase of work which will focus on four key areas.
CFP: Tacitism: Ethics, Politics and Europe 16th-18th c.
Society for Classical Studies
MARCH 21, 2025
CFP: Tacitism: Ethics, Politics and Europe 16th-18th c. kskordal Fri, 03/21/2025 - 10:39 Image Tacitism: Ethics, Politics and Europe 16th-18th c. Warsaw 18-20 September 2025 Rooted in the works of the Roman historian Cornelius Tacitus, the Tacitist voice exerted an important influence on political discourse during the long century from the late 16th to the early 18th century.
Member Spotlight: Samantha Chapa, University of Houston
Political Science Now
MARCH 19, 2025
Meet Samantha Chapa, Ph.D., University of Houston APSA Member since 2020 Ph.D. candidate in Political Science Samantha Chapa is a PhD candidate in Political Science at the University of Houston. Her research interests include migration politics and policy, local politics, and race, ethnicity, and politics. Samantha’s dissertation focuses on the impacts of urban immigrant inclusion policies on the participation and civic engagement of immigrant and minoritized communities.
A Red Smile from the Silk Road: The Mystery of Cinnabar-Stained Teeth in Ancient Turpan
Anthropology.net
MARCH 17, 2025
More than 2,000 years ago, a young woman was buried in the Turpan Basin of northwest China. She was laid to rest alongside leather boots, gold earrings, and finely crafted ornaments—objects that hint at wealth and status. But one detail stood out among the usual burial goods: her teeth were stained a deep, unnatural red. Multi-angle views of the stained teeth of 07TSM11:B.
Qatar National Vision 2030
Living Geography
MARCH 21, 2025
Some countries that have historically relied on oil for their economic development are now looking to a future post peak-oil (although that is not looking like being any time soon for the USA now.). This is an area that I have been writing about for a while now. Petrostates are those whose economy relies on oil. They are now working out what their post-oil, diversified economy may be based around.
Surrounding® Dr. Jack Wann and the Steamboat Cabin Theatre!
Life and Landscapes
MARCH 19, 2025
SURROUNDING THE STEAMBOAT CABIN THEATRE Time, like a river, flows with only one leaning. For time, like a river, there is only the future. And for water, all of its movement is always downriver. But rolling waters spin off on its edges, playing like errant children, creating swirls folding back on eternity. Seeking a moments hesitation within which water-based life can again be certain, before resuming its race to the final destination and obliterating its history.
Still Marginalized? Gender and LGBTQIA+ Scholarship in Top Political Science Journals
Political Science Now
MARCH 18, 2025
Still Marginalized? Gender and LGBTQIA+ Scholarship in Top Political Science Journals By Jennifer M. Piscopo , University of London Is political science research that explores gender and LGBTQIA+ politics still underrepresented in the disciplines top journals? This article examines publication trends in gender research and LGBTQIA+ research in five top political science journals, between 2017 and 2023 (inclusive).
Oklahoma Draft Standards Ask Students to Find 2020 Election 'Discrepancies'
Education Week - Social Studies
MARCH 17, 2025
The standards intimate that the 2020 presidential election results might not be trustworthy.
New map of Antarctica from BAS
Living Geography
MARCH 15, 2025
British Antarctic Survey have released a brand new map showing the continent without ice, called Bedmap3. Known as Bedmap3, it incorporates more than six decades of survey data acquired by planes, satellites, ships and even dog-drawn sleds. The results are published this week (12 March) in the journal Scientific Data. The map gives us a clear view of the white continent as if its 27 million cubic km of ice have been removed, revealing the hidden locations of the tallest mountains and the deepest
Lonesome, Lost and Feeling Sad
Life and Landscapes
MARCH 20, 2025
Lonesome, Lost and Feeling Sad, a song from the new musical, Jubilee Barndance , at the Shelby County Community Theatre in Shelbyville, Kentucky on February 13, 2022. Book by Dr. Jack Wann, Lyrics by Dr. Jack Wann and Ronald R. Van Stockum, Jr, with Music by Ronald R. Van Stockum, Jr. Cast : Maynard Spud Loomis, Reggie Van Stockum; Henry Jenkins, Maximillian A.
How Powerful Partnerships Are Propelling Digital Learning in Guinea
Digital Promise
MARCH 19, 2025
In Dalaba, Guinea, Digital Promise and partners are leveraging powerful tools to deliver powerful blended learning.
Shifting the Focus: From Achievement to Growth
Moler's Musing
MARCH 19, 2025
This year has been tough. New school. New curriculum. A constant balancing act between using what I know works and keeping people happy. My students this year are mostly on IEPs or not on track to pass the state ELA test. Ive spent so much time worrying about whether theyll pass that I lost sight of something more importantgrowth. That should have been my focus all along.
Plastic on the beaches
Living Geography
MARCH 20, 2025
Last week there was a collision between two ships off the East Yorkshire coast near Withernsea - the place where I first stepped into a classroom as a teacher during my PGCE a long time ago. there were fires and other issues as a result. This BBC article explains that plastic is being washed up on the beaches of North Norfolk, close to where I used to live.
Surrounding® Dr. Jack Wann and the Steamboat Cabin Theatre!
Life and Landscapes
MARCH 15, 2025
SURROUNDING THE STEAMBOAT CABIN THEATRE Time, like a river, flows with only one leaning. For time, like a river, there is only the future. And for water, all of its movement is always downriver. But rolling waters spin off on its edges, playing like errant children, creating swirls folding back on eternity. Seeking a moments hesitation within which water-based life can again be certain, before resuming its race to the final destination and obliterating its history.
On Clarity
All Things Pedagogical
MARCH 21, 2025
This week I have been thinking about clarity a lot and how clarity appears in different places in our lives. For example, clarity as opposed to brain fog when you are not feeling well or going through a pain flare. Or the need for clarity in the ways we try to communicate with our close people and surroundings. How the way that we are clear with colleagues may be very different than the lack of clarity needed with our close friends who just get what we are trying to say with a gesture, a look, a
Rigor Mortis: Why Making Learning Harder Doesn’t Make It Better
Moler's Musing
MARCH 17, 2025
Why do people think rigor only comes from weirdly worded questions with hard vocabulary? Or that multiple pages of reading automatically equate to a challenging learning experience? Rigor isnt just about making things hard its about making learning meaningful. Ive seen a one-page reading with well-designed tasks lead to deeper thinking than a five-page article with a set of dry comprehension questions.
GCSE Natural History - going ahead - probably.
Living Geography
MARCH 21, 2025
A cross-posting from my GCSE Natural History blog. I started this when the new specification was first announced. I've been adding posts since, and there are now over 400, so I've got plenty of materials to help write some support resources once a draft specification emerges. It's taken a while, but there was some news from Parliament today. Here was the question in Parliament.
Tudor Women in Film : Glamour, Power, Lust and Tragic Death
Women's History Network
MARCH 16, 2025
This talk on 22 March 2025 at Chichester Cinema celebrates Womens History month by examining films enduring fascination with Tudor women, from The Execution of Mary Stewart (1895) to Firebrand (2023). Audiences have continually relished the politics, tragedy and intrigue of lavishly costumed, queens and princesses disrupting and destabilising the Tudor court.
NEH Announces Funding for a New Mission US
ASHP CML
MARCH 18, 2025
In January, 2025, the National Endowment for the Humanities awarded funds for the production of a new addition to the popular Mission US series. Isla Preciosa, the ninth installment in the digital learning game series, will focus on the U.S. invasion of Puerto Rico in 1898 and its aftermath. Through playing Isla Preciosa, middle school students will investigate how the shift from Spanish rule to American governance affected the lives of Puerto Ricans at the turn of the 20th century, and what rol
HQIM in Social Studies
4QM Teaching
MARCH 17, 2025
We Finally Wrote A Curriculum When we first decided to try to spread the Four Question Method beyond our own classrooms, we were very naive. We figured wed go to conferences and give workshops, and teachers would go back home and implement the method. It turned out that we could get invited to conferences and we gave pretty good workshops that teachers liked a lot but very few of them went back home and revised their teaching materials to reflect the Four Question Method.
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