ED Surge

OCTOBER 24, 2024

In recent years, a growing body of research has looked at the impact of college ‘deserts’ — sometimes defined as an area where people live more than a 30-minute drive to a campus — and found that those residing close to a college are more likely to attend. I said, ‘This is bananas. This is not how it works.’”

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Many adults, as well as the vast majority of my high school-age peers, don’t seem to understand how government works and as a result don’t trust it. The Pew Research Center has been tracking public trust in government since 1958 and the decline in trust is very real.

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ED Surge

APRIL 3, 2024

That’s one of the main findings of a new report from researchers from the think tank New America. Across roughly 60 pages, researchers analyzed 24,658 pairs of districts that share a border. Researchers point out that the inequities they uncover in the report are not unavoidable. It’s time to draw the line.”

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

In a 2016 survey by Harvard’s Center for Education Policy Research, 94 percent of middle school math teachers said they analyzed student performance on tests in the prior year, and 15 percent said they spent over 40 hours on this kind of data analysis. The emerging answer from education researchers is no.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 8, 2022

But education researchers who study the teaching profession say the threat is exaggerated. Attrition is definitely up, but it’s not a mass exodus of teachers,” said Dan Goldhaber, a labor economist at the American Institutes for Research (AIR), a nonprofit research organization. . And on Aug.

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Sapiens

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

To imagine those futures, the scholars resurrected sustainable lifestyles of the past known from archaeological research and African Oral Histories. These scholars are using their research on the precolonial past to sow sustainable futures—like the worlds inhabited by Abena and Akaina.

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Sapiens

OCTOBER 30, 2024

As our team of researchers drove southeast through Utah toward Bears Ears National Monument , changes in the landscape unfolded around us. But our research on firewood gathering by Diné people shows the federal government can do more to ensure the promises of equitable co-management. management policies that limit their access.

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Sapiens

JANUARY 29, 2025

This site has thankfully been spared from destruction by the regional government when it was earmarked as a possible tourist attraction. While we were grateful that this impressive midden has been preserved, the government official accompanying us pointed out shells littering the landscape several hundred feet away.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 8, 2025

Research quick take Access to high-quality pre-K is becoming an increasingly popular policy across the nations largest cities, according to a recently released report by CityHealth. CityHealth is partnering with the National Institute for Early Education Research to track this progress here.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 14, 2021

As online schooling plays an increasingly large role in education, researchers say more work needs to be done to understand and address why some families have a harder time accessing the internet. At the same time, the government helped developers build new suburban subdivisions exclusively for white people.

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Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 1, 2024

A new biocultural database, developed by researchers at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU), reveals the profound connections between Borneo’s rich plant life and the survival, traditions, and identity of its people. Source: Environmental Policy and Governance, 2021. Source: Nature Ecology & Evolution, 2018.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

They can be a part of society, said Maureen McGuire-Kuletz, co-director of the George Washington University Center for Rehabilitation Counseling Research and Education. And the states extremely decentralized school governance system has hampered haphazard efforts to get the services into schools. That was the hope.

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A Principal's Reflections

OCTOBER 25, 2015

Students do this all the time when dictator-like policies and rules govern technology use. Obviously kids can use technology to do this now as well. Did you ever break any school rules that you didn't agree with? The point here is that it is not a technology issue, but many people make it one. The behavior argument that many make is flawed.

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Passion for Social Studies

SEPTEMBER 14, 2024

Are your government students excited for the upcoming election? Additionally, they will research why low voter turnout is a problem, even though it is essential to maintaining our democracy. This is even the perfect unit for teaching AP United States Government and Politics! This will definitely be an exciting election year.

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Anthropology.net

MARCH 6, 2025

New research published in Antiquity 1 by geoarchaeologist Jaafar Jotheri and his team reveals a massive, intricate irrigation system in the Eridu region—one that predates the first millennium BCE. A Challenge for Future Research One of the most pressing questions raised by this discovery is when exactly each canal was in use.

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Political Science Now

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Project Title:Exploring Indigenous Governance and Cultural Evolution in Oaxaca, Mexico Mauricio Fernndez Duque, Dartmouth College Mauricio Fernndez Duque is an assistant professor at CIDE and a visiting scholar at Dartmouth. Read about the funded projects.

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Sapiens

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

The Roti Collective, a community-based research project, explores the layered histories that brought a flatbread from the Indian subcontinent around the world. Based on our extensive research and experience, this is still true.) where I teach.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Things Can Go Terribly Wrong Idahos conservative legislature generally favors deregulation and a free-market approach, believing that most industries can govern themselves better than any public entity can. Research shows that higher child-to-staff ratios can threaten childrens health and safety.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 7, 2021

A 2018 review of the research evidence for reducing class sizes found only small benefits in reading and no benefits in math, on average. Parents and teachers may like smaller classes but the research evidence for spending money on them isn’t strong. Class size reduction is costly,” the Danish researchers wrote.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 5, 2025

Last month, my colleague Jill Barshay detailed potentially devastating cuts made to education research when the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) terminated 89 contracts at the Institute of Education Sciences, a research arm of the Department of Education. One is evaluations of how the government spends its money.

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Political Science Now

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

Join the APSA Committee on the Status of Graduate Students in the Profession for a virtual workshop on best practices for funding your research with small gra nts. Dr. Jamil Scott is an Assistant Professor of Political Science in the Government Department at Georgetown University. She earned her Ph.D.

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ED Surge

MAY 17, 2024

With digital education platforms generating data on how millions of students are learning, they are also sitting on veritable information gold mines for researchers who are trying to improve education. Instead, we're taking the researchers’ questions to that data. A lot of the studies are about freshman college kids, right?

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

Early (Childhood) Investment Steven Barnett, founder and senior co-director of the National Institute for Early Education Research, says that the NAEP reading results are not what anyone wanted to see.

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Anthropology.net

JANUARY 16, 2025

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. By comparing data from other Iron Age cemeteries across Britain, the researchers identified similar patterns of maternal inheritance in Yorkshire and beyond.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Colleges and universities, on average, are admitting a larger proportion of their applicants than they did 20 years ago, new research by the conservative think tank the American Enterprise Institute finds. The process helps the universities fill seats, but research shows it largely excludes lower-income families. It’s basic math.

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The Effortful Educator

MARCH 2, 2025

The two end up sharing a flat in London and working to solve crimes for the British police and government, monarchs, aristocrats, and others. All studies included confederates; people who were part of the research team, but appeared to be regular participants. Teachers need to tell students about this type of research.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 11, 2025

The solution, one that has strong bipartisan support, is as prominent as John Hancocks signature: a generational investment in teaching students how the government works. When it comes to civics, the federal government usually plays a limited role, reasonably restricted from imposing a national curriculum.

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Teaching Anthropology

DECEMBER 13, 2024

Moreover, with regard to syndemics Horton tweeted , The anthropology community is ahead of medicine and public health.Once labeled a little-known buzzword that nonetheless describes our troubled times in Smithsonian Magazine , syndemic theory now informs a rich body of health research and interventions.

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Political Science Now

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

This Research Group will bring together scholars interested in exploring political economys evolving body of knowledge and practices from the early-modern period through the present. Apply to a Virtual Research Group Workshop here. View all research group workshop descriptions on the 2025 APSA Virtual Research Meeting website.

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Anthropology.net

OCTOBER 31, 2024

New research, led by Guillaume Charloux and published in PLOS ONE 1 , focuses on the third-to-second-millennium BCE town of al-Natah, shedding light on Arabia's unique urbanization process during this era. However, findings in northern Arabia indicate that urban development here took on a slower, more gradual trajectory during the Bronze Age.

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ED Surge

MARCH 20, 2025

One school choice researcher identified Milwaukee as having the most evolved legislation for making private school options accountable to families. Instead, families tend to rely on recommendations from friends and neighbors, researchers say. Some are skeptical of past research on the politically charged topic of voucher programs.

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Living Geography

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

When I was serving on the GA's Governing Body , work started on a report exploring the diversity and inclusion of all aspects of the GA's activity. It has taken a while to carry out the research that underpins the report. This was going to be produced by a Working Group called the DIWG. Change is needed. The Geography for Everyone?

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Anthropology News

MARCH 4, 2025

Over a networking coffee, an archaeologist who maps cilln in several Northern counties told me that in fact it had been the Tuam childrens burial ground that inspired her research in the first place. Two examples will suffice. Who was with the child when they were passing.

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Society for Classical Studies

MARCH 7, 2025

Our goal is to invite graduate students and early career researchers in Classics and Philosophy to explore this important concept. Each paper will be assigned a responder, a senior researcher in the thematic area selected. infanticide , matricide , uxoricide , conjuxide , etc.) Please send abstracts as pdf to sopeprah@ug.edu.gh

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Moler's Musing

MARCH 1, 2025

With students now having some familiarity with the key terms, it was time to move into The Great American Race a fast-paced, high-engagement EduProtocol that reinforces key concepts through collaboration and research. They have to use key terms and context clues to research. government? 6⃣ The Race Begins! Why or why not?

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ED Surge

MARCH 5, 2025

Google It As a student, part of my schooling involved library classes, computer classes and English classes, during which I received dedicated instructional time using Mozilla Firefox and Google to do research for school projects. We were taught not to plagiarize and to cite our sources.

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Passion for Social Studies

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

So, they will not realize how power became divided between the federal government and individual states. Similarly, they will not realize how government structures operate at many levels and the impact of policy-making. Luckily, these Federalism round up resources are the perfect way to help students critically analyze the government!

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