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How Colonialism Invented Food Insecurity in West Africa

Sapiens

Archaeological evidence and Oral Histories show people in what is today Ghana lived sustainably for millennia—until European colonial powers and the widespread trade of enslaved people changed everything. While Logan’s work revealed the plants Banda residents ate, other research reconstructed the region’s broader environmental history.

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How To Teach Artificial Intelligence In The Classroom Without Technology

TeachThought

Strategies for Teaching AI Concepts Without Technology by TeachThought Staff Preface: This post is primarily for general content-area K-12 teachers (likely 6-12). ’ History and AI: Study the history of technological advancements and their societal impacts.

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Change Comes From Within

A Principal's Reflections

Enter the age of standardization and computerized assessments that will test the living daylights out of students in the United States over the course of their lifetime in K-12 education. One just has to refer to the history books to see how this has played out across the world since the beginning of time.

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A Window Into the Early Epigravettian: Grotta della Lea and Italy’s Final Ice Age Hunters

Anthropology.net

The discovery of an Epigravettian layer at Grotta della Lea now provides a new chapter in this long history, capturing a time when small bands of hunter-gatherers were adapting to life at the edge of the Last Glacial Maximum. Scientific Reports, 12 (1), 5609. Related Research Romandini, M., Marciani, G., Benazzi, S., Ronchitelli, A.,

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OPINION: Students need more educational choices after high school

The Hechinger Report

Unfortunately, many college alternatives, especially career and technical education programs, have a complicated history. Traditional higher education has reached an inflection point. trillion — up nearly $750 billion in 12 years. Education leaders have long called for expanded postsecondary pathways. College isn’t for everyone.

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We Must Teach Black History Like Our Lives Depend on It

ED Surge

Much of that had to do with the fact that I was learning about Black histories for the first time. I live for these histories because they are grounded in formal and informal learning communities, whether in schools, public workshops or even my family home where I first saw the value of Black history.

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Native Americans turn to charter schools to reclaim their kids’ education

The Hechinger Report

Once the site of an Indian boarding school, where the federal government attempted to strip children of their tribal identity, the Native American Community Academy now offers the opposite: a public education designed to affirm and draw from each student’s traditional culture and language. The charter school, NACA, opened its doors in 2006.