World History Teachers Blog
FEBRUARY 12, 2025
Atlantic Magazine published 45 black and white stunning black-and-white photographs of the interwar period around the world. Among the 45 images are Hitler and Mussolini shaking hands in Germany, Japanese aircraft carrying out air raids over China, Chinese General Chiang Kai-shek sitting with the chairman of the Yunan provincial government, and four Italian soldiers taking aim in Ethiopia in 1935.
ED Surge
FEBRUARY 13, 2025
The recent unveiling of national reading and math scores revealed some disheartening trends about learning recovery with the collective main headline: Students Are Doing Worse Than Before the Pandemic Started. Parsing education data into snack-sized servings. The factors behind the continued dip in scores are multilayered, but teachers might tell you that the key reason why some students arent making progress is that parents arent making schoolwork a priority at home.
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The Hechinger Report
FEBRUARY 10, 2025
Over the past decade, a majority of states have passed new science of reading laws or implemented policies that emphasize phonics in classrooms. Yet the 2024 results of an important national test, released last month, showed that the reading scores of elementary and middle schoolers continued their long downward slide, hitting new lows. The emphasis on phonics in many schools is still relatively new and may need more time to yield results.
The Effortful Educator
FEBRUARY 10, 2025
Heres hoping as many as possible read the book and action the ideas getting these learning ideas on the front foot is a tough ask (weirdly) and moving teachers from their obsession about teaching to add an obsession about learning is the aim of the game. This line was written in an email to me from Dr. John Hattie recently where we were talking about my book on memory processing, attention, and learning.
Anthropology News
FEBRUARY 14, 2025
When Shanthy left her coastal home in Jaffna, Sri Lanka, in 1970 for Chicago, she carried ways of caring that would reshape her familys bonds through war and displacement. Over the next fifteen years, as violence against Tamils escalated, her eight siblingsShakuntala, Chandran, Babu, Nala, Saddan, Kala, Amutha, and Thushyand their parents would scatter across temporary homes in Europe, Africa, and the United States, each finding their own way to maintain connection through food.
ED Surge
FEBRUARY 10, 2025
DENVER In Zach Kennellys senior civics class, students are building custom chatbots with artificial intelligence. One student is working on a chatbot that better curates movie and television show recommendations based on a viewers recent watch history. Another is creating a chatbot that somewhat ironically helps members of Gen Z like herself practice their communication skills, such as by coming up with conversation starters.
TCI
FEBRUARY 13, 2025
Selecting high-quality instructional materials (HQIM) for social studies is one of the most impactful decisions a district can make. It influences not only student achievement but also teacher effectiveness and overall district success. With the right HQIM, students develop critical thinking skills, engage meaningfully with historical content, and become informed citizens ready to tackle complex societal issues.
Social Studies Network brings together the best content for social studies educators from the widest variety of thought leaders.
Passion for Social Studies
FEBRUARY 14, 2025
When was the last time you solved a Rubix Cube? How about listened to a cassette on your boom box? Honestly, I miss everything about the 80s! This transformative decade left a lasting impact on the entire world. There were technological innovations, political changes, and tons of new obsessions. Luckily, we get to bring some of this excitement back with the 1980’s Game Show.
Moler's Musing
FEBRUARY 14, 2025
Monday On Tuesday, I sat down to rewrite the Early Republic unit testnot just to make it easier, but to make it make sense. The original test was full of college-level questions that buried key concepts under overly complex wording. I want my students to be challenged, but I also want them to engage with historynot feel defeated by it. So, I kept some of the previous test questions but reworded them to align with how 8th graders actually talk and think.
ED Surge
FEBRUARY 12, 2025
During my eight-year teaching career in Colorado, Ive heard many schools and districts claim they want to develop the whole child. For example, the Colorado Department of Education supports statewide infrastructure and systems to promote a whole-child approach called Whole School, Whole Community, Whole Child. Furthermore, Denver Public Schools Ends Policy requires all students to demonstrate a well-rounded educational experience.
Anthropology.net
FEBRUARY 8, 2025
A Fossil That Changed Everything In 1924, a small, fossilized skull was unearthed from a limestone quarry in South Africa. The skull belonged to a juvenile hominin—a species previously unknown to science. Raymond Dart, an ambitious anatomist, carefully extracted it from the matrix and, in a 1925 Nature 1 paper, named it Australopithecus africanus , or "the southern ape of Africa" Three-part cast of the Taung Child skull, a 2.1 million-year-old Australopithecus africanus fossil from
The Hechinger Report
FEBRUARY 9, 2025
In an era when artificial intelligence increasingly shapes decisions in education, its critical to examine how these technologies impact historically marginalized communities. AI offers both promise and peril, and parents have the power to drive this change. By engaging with schools, collaborating with their communities and advocating for transparency and inclusivity, they can ensure that AI serves as a tool for empowerment rather than exclusion.
Political Science Now
FEBRUARY 12, 2025
2025 APSA Virtual Research Meeting (VRM) April 10th and 11th | Research Group Workshop Survey Research in Authoritarian States Workshop Organizers: Grant M. Cohen (University of Colorado) This Virtual Research Group will examine the obstacles and challenges one may face when conducting survey research in authoritarian states, where governmental transparency is minimal and citizens often fear expressing their political opinions due to the risk of retaliation.
ED Surge
FEBRUARY 10, 2025
To support improved student outcomes, educators increasingly look to technology. But how do they fuel authentic engagement, using technology as a tool to not only enhance learning but also inspire curiosity and strengthen connections? Recently, EdSurge spoke with Kelly Mitchell, Digital Learning and Teaching Facilitator with Onslow County Schools in North Carolina.
Edthena
FEBRUARY 12, 2025
In the news What if professional development could be as dynamic and personalized as the classrooms we envision for our students? Thats exactly what St. Vrain Valley Schools in Longmont, Colorado, is making a reality. Highlighted in the National Association of Secondary School Principals (NASSP) article, “Transforming Teacher PD With AI,” authors Courtney Groskin, an instructional coach, and Sandy Heiser, assistant principal of Skyline High School, share how their district is breakin
The Hechinger Report
FEBRUARY 10, 2025
This story was produced by the Associated Press and reprinted with permission. Math is the subject sixth grader Harmoni Knight finds hardest, but that’s changing. In-class tutors and data chats at her middle school in Compton, California, have made a dramatic difference, the 11-year-old said. She proudly pulled up a performance tracker at a tutoring session last week, displaying a column of perfect 100 percent scores on all her weekly quizzes from January.
Society for Classical Studies
FEBRUARY 11, 2025
WCC Virtual Conference: Embodying Women's Colonial Experiences kskordal Tue, 02/11/2025 - 11:53 Image WCC Virtual Conference: Embodying Women's Colonial Experiences Date: Friday 28 February 2025, 8:30 am - 4:00 pm Eastern Organizers: Savannah Sather Marquardt and Maddalena Scarperi Keynote Speaker: Giulia Saltini Semerari, University of Michigan Description: This virtual conference seeks investigations of the womans body (broadly defined) and embodied experiences of womanhood in ancient Mediterr
Political Science Now
FEBRUARY 14, 2025
This obituary includes excerpts from the University of New Mexico Newsroom and the Albuquerque Journal. APSA is extremely saddened by the recent passing of Mala Htun , author and Distinguished Professor of Political Science at The University of New Mexico. She was 55. Photo credit: UNM Newsroom Born in Hawaii,Htunmoved to Albuquerque in 1982 when her mother became a professor at UNM.
Living Geography
FEBRUARY 11, 2025
I went down to UCL today to speak to this year's PGCE cohort: the next generation of geography teachers. This is always a privilege as I know they have limited time, and David Mitchell and colleagues introduce them to a whole range of experts. Lots of interest in the tools and thinking that I shared. Main message was to try to be "creatively subversive" within the constraints of the school in which they will find themselves teaching and its systems, and the degree of teacher agency they will enj
Life and Landscapes
FEBRUARY 8, 2025
Tom Martin is the exquisite host of “Eastern Standard,” a Public Radio program broadcast every Thursday and Sunday across the Eastern half of Kentucky. On its website it is described as “… a WEKU radio magazine of interviews and stories about interesting people, places and events happening in central and Appalachian Kentucky.” Here is the link to my most recent Journey Log in my Surrounding Series.
Society for Classical Studies
FEBRUARY 13, 2025
SCS in the News: Martha Graham Dance Company at the 2025 Annual Meeting kskordal Thu, 02/13/2025 - 07:00 Image The 2025 AIA/SCS Joint Annual Meeting , which took place last month in Philadelphia, featured a performance by the Martha Graham Dance Company on Saturday, January 4th. The event included performances of two Greek-themed modernist works by Martha Graham: Cave of the Heart (1946), Grahams retelling of the myth of Medea, and Errand , the companys 2013 version of Errand into the Maze (1947
Political Science Now
FEBRUARY 12, 2025
Project Title:Examining Womens Representation in Tribal Governance: An Analysis of Executive and Legislative Roles Tessa Provins, University of Arizona Tessa Provins is an assistant professor in the School of Government and Public Policy at the University of Arizona. Prior to joining the University of Arizona, she was an assistant professor in the political science department at the University of Pittsburgh from 2018 to 2024.
Living Geography
FEBRUARY 12, 2025
Another term-time Wednesday means it's time for another Worldly Wednesday. This has been a very busy Wednesday for me! A couple of hours to start the day working on a textbook chapter. Then it was onto some consultancy work on curriculum matters. Days of work needed distilling and tweaking and versions blended to a final iteration that we were happy with.
Life and Landscapes
FEBRUARY 13, 2025
“Do you remember when you were young? Not young as an adult, or even an adolescent. And not young as in a child. I mean young as a youth, in that high time of newness of form and strength. That time between childhood awe and teenager stupid. A time when your own inquiring mind exploded with interest and wonder. And your nimble, thin legs carried you forth with the courage of a young bird in first stumble.” What fun!
Society for Classical Studies
FEBRUARY 10, 2025
Call for Proposals: Joukowsky Institute Archaeology and the Ancient World Spring Symposium kskordal Mon, 02/10/2025 - 12:54 Image Call for Proposals: Joukowsky Institute Archaeology and the Ancient World Spring Symposium, 2026 Deadline: March 3, 2025 The Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World (JIAAW) is accepting collaborative proposals for a symposium to be held in the spring semester of 2026.
Political Science Now
FEBRUARY 13, 2025
2025 APSA Virtual Research Meeting (VRM) April 10th and 11th | Research Group Workshop Rethinking the Undergraduate Political Science Major in Challenging Times Workshop Organizers: John Ishiyama (University of North Texas); Michelle Deardorff (University of Tennessee at Chattanooga) This Virtual Research Group Workshop will feature papers exploring the curricular structure of undergraduate political science programs, responding to the American Political Science Associations (APSA) reconsiderati
Living Geography
FEBRUARY 12, 2025
I saw this book yesterday in Hatchards, and was immediately drawn to the cover, which is excellent, and even before I picked it up I knew that it would be perfect for one of my favourite topics. Publishers' blurb We live in a manufactured world. Unless you are floating naked through space, you are right now in direct contact with multiple manufactured products.
Life and Landscapes
FEBRUARY 10, 2025
“Surrounding Kentucky, Select Essays,” is the second volume of my “Surrounding Series.” The first volume is entitled “Surrounding Mammoth Cave,” the Third is “Surrounding The Kentucky River,” and the Fourth is “Surrounding Fort Knox including Southern Indiana.” This volume addresses my inquiries into the Science, Culture and History of various locations in the Commonwealth of Kentucky.
Women's History Network
FEBRUARY 11, 2025
My first exposure to the history of nursing was the Ladybird book Florence Nightingale, in the Adventure from History series. Like many primary-school children before and since, I was beguiled by Nightingales dedication to her cause.
Political Science Now
FEBRUARY 14, 2025
How to Stay Popular: Threat, Framing, and Conspiracy Theory Longevity By Courtney Blackington , University of Pittsburgh and Frances Cayton , Cornell University Why do some conspiracy theories (CTs) remain popular and continue to spread on social media while others quickly fade away? Situating conspiracy theories within the literature on social movements, we propose and test a new theory of how enduring CTs maintain and regain popularity online.
Living Geography
FEBRUARY 9, 2025
This new book by Rob Cowen is coming out in April and looks to be excellent. I have spent a good chunk of my life driving up and down the A1, particularly certain stretches at certain times in my life. The stretch between Newark and the M18 near Doncaster is a stretch I've driven along probably 1000 times. I used to cycle down it in my youth, to Clumber Park near Nottingham/Worksop.
O-Level Geography
FEBRUARY 13, 2025
Where are the monkeys from? Who are affected? How does people disadvantage nature? How does nature disadvantage people?
Anthropology News
FEBRUARY 10, 2025
The post Going Native: Care appeared first on Anthropology News.
Political Science Now
FEBRUARY 12, 2025
Courts-First Federalism: How Model Legislation Becomes Impact Litigation By Dylan L. Yingling and Daniel J. Mallinson , Penn State University States and interest groups are facilitating a redistribution of government powers under a new courts-first federalism. States are working to claw back powers while interest groups drafting model laws strategically tailor them to skirt the limits of federal law and, once adopted by states, prompt federal courts to review them as parties litigate to clarify
Living Geography
FEBRUARY 14, 2025
I refer to this picture and the associated quotes quite a lot in my teaching. It was taken on 14th February 1990 - 35 years ago today. The picture was remastered in 2020. The one I often show was taken by the Cassini Spacecraft in 2013 as it approached Saturn. Here's an animation I show.
Civics for All of US
FEBRUARY 11, 2025
Apply now for the 2025 Teacher Institute! Natalie Rocchio Tue, 02/11/2025 - 12:29 We are now accepting applications for our 2025 Civics for All of US Teacher Institute. Learn more !
Anthropology.net
FEBRUARY 13, 2025
For centuries, human remains recovered from the River Thames have puzzled archaeologists. Were they the result of accidental drownings, burials disturbed by shifting tides, or evidence of ritual deposition? A new study in Antiquity 1 has established a far more precise timeline, revealing that these skeletal remains span nearly 6,000 years—from the Neolithic to the post-medieval period.
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