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6 Domains Of Cognition: The Heick Learning Taxonomy

TeachThought

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

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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Most college students are taking online classes, but they’re paying just as much as in-person students

The Hechinger Report

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.

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King of the North: Martin Luther King’s Freedom Struggle Outside of the South

Zinn Education Project

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.

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A Forgotten Chapter in Human Evolution: The Hidden Ancestry of Modern Humans

Anthropology.net

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.

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For Families, School Choice Doesn't Mean Easy Decisions

ED Surge

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.

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60 Critical Thinking Strategies For Learning

TeachThought

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

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.

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As the Teacher Shortage Crisis Deepens in Ohio, Immigrant Educators Could Be the Answer

ED Surge

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.

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Common Mistakes In Data Annotation Projects

TeachThought

Bad data annotation weakens AI. Learn common mistakes, how to fix them, and build reliable datasets for accurate machine learning models.

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OPINION: The demographic cliff in higher education should be seen as an opportunity, not a crisis

The Hechinger Report

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.

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Manchurian Crisis & Rape of Nanking

World History Teachers Blog

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.

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Why Digital Fluency, Adaptability and AI-Powered Learning Matter More Than Ever

ED Surge

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.

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Erasure I and Erasure VI

Sapiens

In two erasure poems, a poet-anthropologist imagines alternative futures using text from the 1846 Treaty of Amritsar, through which the British sold Kashmir to a despotic Dogra ruler. The poems are from a six-part series titled Song of the First Spring. Erasure I and Erasure VI are part of the collection Poets Resist, Refuse, and Find a Way Through.

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Call for Applications: 2025 APSA Advancing Research Grant for Early-Career Scholars | Deadline: May 6, 2025

Political Science Now

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

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The Politics of Pottery: How Ceramics Mapped the Borders of El Argar’s Bronze Age World

Anthropology.net

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.

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CFP: Tacitism: Ethics, Politics and Europe 16th-18th c.

Society for Classical Studies

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.

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Curriculum and Assessment Review Interim Report

Living Geography

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.

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The Effect of Populist Incumbents on Democracy

Political Science Now

The Effect of Populist Incumbents on Democracy By Kirk A. Hawkins and Grant A. Mitchell , Brigham Young University Populisms effects on democracy after populists gain control of government (hereafter, populist incumbents) are some of the best theorized and documented consequences. The argument that populist incumbents threaten institutions of democratic contestationand, less frequently, that they correct some aspects of political participation and representationhas been made from multiple approa

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A Red Smile from the Silk Road: The Mystery of Cinnabar-Stained Teeth in Ancient Turpan

Anthropology.net

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.

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Make Sense of Your Interactions with Simulated Quantities of Interest, by Way of {simqi}

Steven V. Miller

Joonkook Hwang addresses the UN Security Council, re: North Korea (29 May 2024). I am writing this in Seoul, where Im currently 1) having the time of my life and 2) on a research excursion where I was invited to give a quick methods lecture to some students at Ewha Womans University. I think the students dug the talk? It was super simple, mostly focusing on how to think about dummy variables and interactions.

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New map of Antarctica from BAS

Living Geography

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

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How Powerful Partnerships Are Propelling Digital Learning in Guinea

Digital Promise

In Dalaba, Guinea, Digital Promise and partners are leveraging powerful tools to deliver powerful blended learning.

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Surrounding® Dr. Jack Wann and the Steamboat Cabin Theatre!

Life and Landscapes

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.

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Member Spotlight: Samantha Chapa, University of Houston

Political Science Now

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.

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Qatar National Vision 2030

Living Geography

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.

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Oklahoma Draft Standards Ask Students to Find 2020 Election 'Discrepancies'

Education Week - Social Studies

The standards intimate that the 2020 presidential election results might not be trustworthy.

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Surrounding® Dr. Jack Wann and the Steamboat Cabin Theatre!

Life and Landscapes

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.

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Still Marginalized? Gender and LGBTQIA+ Scholarship in Top Political Science Journals

Political Science Now

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).

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Plastic on the beaches

Living Geography

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.

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Shifting the Focus: From Achievement to Growth

Moler's Musing

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.

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Lonesome, Lost and Feeling Sad

Life and Landscapes

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.

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Digital Promise Announces New Center for Learner Pathways to Prepare Learners for a Skills-Based Future

Digital Promise

The post Digital Promise Announces New Center for Learner Pathways to Prepare Learners for a Skills-Based Future appeared first on Digital Promise.

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GCSE Natural History - going ahead - probably.

Living Geography

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.

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Rigor Mortis: Why Making Learning Harder Doesn’t Make It Better

Moler's Musing

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.

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On Clarity

All Things Pedagogical

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

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Carrying on ASHP’s Legacy

ASHP CML

In 1977, historians Herb Guttman and Steve Brier organized a series of seminars about “Working Men and Women in American History” for labor leaders and trade unionists. These seminars focused on the history of labor organization and collective bargaining, leading to the founding of the American Working ClassHistory Project and, later, the American Social History Project.