Society for Classical Studies

MARCH 4, 2025

The HRFP, the only residential fellowship program west of the Mississippi in Hellenic studies, provides opportunities for visiting scholars and writers-in-residence to spend time in Sacramento, CA, conducting research and crafting their creative works using the resources of the Tsakopoulos Hellenic Collection.

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Cult of Pedagogy

APRIL 13, 2025

All of (the teachers) are assessing reading artifacts, writing artifacts, research artifacts, Messer explains, with the same rubric across our building. It’s framed around this driving question: How are humans impacting the Earth from an environmental biology perspective? They also explore pseudoscience and source credibility.

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Sapiens

APRIL 8, 2025

Their doctoral research focuses on trans forms of creative expression in the Puerto Rican ballroom scene. Dozandris research has been supported by a Society for Visual Anthropology/Lemelson Foundation Fellowship, the Duberman-Zal Fellowship from the Center for LGBTQ+ Studies, and grants from the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center at UCSB.

Anthropology 64

Anthropology Archiving Library Humanities 64

ASHP CML

APRIL 10, 2025

Last week, the ASHP was one of many organizations and individuals suddenly notified about the termination of grants funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities. Its state humanities councils bring reading programs, traveling exhibits, and authors to some of the country’s most rural corners.

Museum 52

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ED Surge

AUGUST 4, 2023

As dean of the College of University Libraries and Learning Services at the University of New Mexico, I lead a team of over 120 faculty and staff members. Understanding the Psyche of Technological Resistance in the Education Workforce Resistance to change, especially technological change , is fundamentally anchored in our human psychology.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 8, 2024

When product developers at UPchieve, a nonprofit that connects students with free math tutoring powered by human volunteers, began evaluating AI tools to power a system for forecasting student performance, they expected to find serious problems with bias. Check out last week’s post here.

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K-12 Tutoring Library Humanities 156

Cult of Pedagogy

APRIL 28, 2024

The novel being annotated is The Human Origins of Beatrice Porter and Other Essential Ghosts by Soraya Palmer Discussion and Feedback Students wrap up and review their annotations. What research has to say about reading instruction. A group annotation poster at the end of the process. References Duke, Nell & Pearson, P.

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Teaching Pedagogy High School Library 358

Teaching American History

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

To give students insight into the work of historians, Czarnecki assigns research projects in all of the courses she teaches at Bishop Seabury Academy in Lawrence, Kansas. She also pursues her own research. Lomax hoped the young men would bring back audio documents for the Archive of American Folk Song at the Library of Congress.

Social Studies 98

Social Studies Research Archiving American History 98

The Hechinger Report

JULY 20, 2020

Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library was one of the book giveaway programs that obtained “impressive” results for early childhood literacy in a May 2020 analysis by international researchers. Imagination Library, launched by American country music star Dolly Parton, mails a new book a month from birth to age 5.

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Cult of Pedagogy

AUGUST 18, 2024

Her area of expertise is human learning and memory, and applying the science of learning in educational contexts. Build Awareness of Metacognitive Pitfalls Educate students on the research about our tendency to be overconfident after reading and re-reading. Come back for more. Over 50,000 teachers have already joined—come on in.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Cong Lu has long been fascinated by how to use technology to make his job as a research scientist more efficient. The AI system even attempts a “peer review,” of the research paper, which essentially brings in another chatbot to check the work of the first. And even when humans do the research, all of the work happens on a computer.

Library 126

Library Humanities Research Teaching 126

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Unlike other popular math practice sites, such as Khan Academy, IXL or ALEKS, in which a computer controls the content, ASSISTments keeps the control levers with the teachers, who pick the questions they like from a library of 200,000. Teachers are restricted to the math problems that Heffernan’s team has uploaded to the ASSISTments library.

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Society for Classical Studies

AUGUST 7, 2024

National Humanities Center Residential Fellowships 2025–2026 kskordal Wed, 08/07/2024 - 08:35 Image National Humanities Center Residential Fellowships 2025–2026 Call for Applications The National Humanities Center invites applications for academic-year or one-semester residential fellowships.

Humanities 52

Humanities Library Cultures Research 52

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 26, 2021

But many of them aren’t from humans. Artificial intelligence, or AI, is being used to shoot off these seemingly personal appeals and deliver pre-written information through chatbots and text personas meant to mimic human banter. AI grading “does it better, more quickly and probably making fewer errors than humans.”

Teaching 145

Teaching Education Humanities Tutoring 145

Digital Promise

AUGUST 25, 2020

LEANLAB Education has long cultivated a network of educators, policymakers, funders, researchers, and entrepreneurs across the region. The Kansas City Public Library system made open-access WiFi available 24 hours a day in the parking lots of all branch locations. By May, they had deployed more than $1.5

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ED Surge

MARCH 17, 2022

As I searched for the “why” behind my contradictions, I thought about research and best practices and found a disconnect between the standards expected of “urban” schools—code for schools that serve predominantly Black and Brown students—and schools that are considered “elite” and exemplar. What Standard?

Pedagogy 120

Pedagogy Charter School Cultures Library 120

ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Are they turning to TikTok for school research papers, for instance? Emily Wilt, a high school library media specialist in Indiana who runs her library’s TikTok account , meets with upperclassmen at the start of each school year to talk about research best practices. As for crossover with their assignments? “I

Library 127

Library High School Humanities Research 127

ED Surge

JULY 7, 2022

Todd Burks teaches students to navigate the University of Virginia library. It teaches the basics of critical thinking, research and academic writing. Students will need to craft a research question, read relevant sources and synthesize what they learn in a short paper. Photo by Ryan Kelly for EdSurge.

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Library Psychology Primary Sources Humanities 113

ED Surge

APRIL 17, 2024

The edtech market is saturated with various tools designed to improve children’s literacy from e-readers to apps to digital libraries. As a professor of reading and children’s development, specializing in children’s digital tools, I've researched what works and what doesn't when it comes to coaching children to read.

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ED Surge

MAY 2, 2024

More than 26 members of local and national media were on hand for the splashy announcement (a detail that Carvalho noted in his remarks), and the event also featured a human dressed in a costume of the shiny animated character of Ed, which has also long been a mascot of the school district, for attendees to take selfies with.

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EdTech Humanities K-12 Tutoring 136

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 18, 2024

An early warning and intervention system, called BARR, pictured above, was one of the most successful education interventions to come out of the Department of Education’s research and development program that issued $1.4 WWC refers to the What Works Clearinghouse, a library of evidence-based teaching practices. National scale up.

Tutoring 142

Tutoring Education Psychology Government 142

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Research is emerging that some babies are developing differently than they did before the Covid-19 pandemic — not because of exposure to Covid itself, but likely because of stress and social isolation. A team of researchers at Columbia University report pandemic babies scored lower on social and motor screening tests at 6 months.

Library 128

Library Research Humanities Education 128

Anthropology.net

OCTOBER 8, 2024

The Oakhurst rock shelter, nestled in the cliffs of South Africa’s southern coast, has long been a focal point for archaeologists due to its wealth of artifacts and human remains. These findings offer a new perspective on human population stability and cultural evolution in southern Africa.

Heritage 98

Heritage Archaeology Ancestry Artifacts 98

Strange Maps

JULY 11, 2024

Sahul, before it shrank and fragmented Those two insights are the pillars upon which Australian and French researchers have built a new model for mapping how pre-agricultural humans occupied new territory. Likelihood of human occupation, based on either of the two entry points: left the northern entry point, right the southern one.

Archaeology 90

Archaeology Library Humanities Research 90

Digital Promise

JUNE 30, 2020

Nashville Public Library. American Job Center (via Mid Cumberland Human Resource Agency). Nashville Public Library. In 2014, the Nashville Public Library Foundation approached local adult education providers to form a learning group that could collectively envision strategies to improve services for learners. Begin Anew.

Library 113

Library Government Economics Humanities 113

Anthropology.net

AUGUST 19, 2024

A groundbreaking genetic study conducted by researchers at the RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences has uncovered new evidence that challenges the longstanding belief in a dual-origin model of Japanese ancestry. This study is a crucial reminder that the story of human evolution is far from complete.

Ancestry 98

Ancestry Heritage Humanities Library 98

ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

At Project Information Literacy (PIL), the nonprofit independent research institute I lead, a group of library and information science and new media researchers — including myself — conduct national research about the information seeking behavior of college students and recent graduates.

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Civic Engagement Civics Library Social Science 133

ED Surge

MARCH 23, 2023

These short courses offer students the opportunity to study behavioral health, which aligns with jobs in our region related to human services, sociology, counseling, psychology and social work. Most were designed to educate clergy, according to research by Phillip R. From 1890 to 1940, higher education in the U.S. In the U.S.

Education 142

Education Sociology Economics Tradition 142

Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 31, 2017

Like many teachers, I would tap into the the Library of Congress, which would give me tips for teaching with primary sources , including quarterly journal articles on topics such as integrating historical and geographic thinking. web site from the National Endowment for the Humanities, including a very popular set for AP U.S.

Social Studies 76

Social Studies Teaching Archiving Geography 76

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 27, 2021

People need people — and children need human interaction even more than adults do. So what happens to young children when “stranger danger” becomes a health mandate, schools and libraries close and anxious parents desperately try to juggle work-life balance? Play is precisely what children need to normalize this period.

Library 114

Library Museum Psychology Humanities 114

Cult of Pedagogy

OCTOBER 27, 2024

Literature transforms human experience and reflects it back to us, and in that reflection we can see our own lives and experiences as part of the larger human experience. Curating the kind of library that truly reflects the diversity of human experience takes time, intention, money, and good tools.

Library 254

Library Social Justice Pedagogy Humanities 254

ED Surge

JANUARY 31, 2024

Engaging in research and design work with communities of researchers, practitioners and edtech product developers has led us to define several principles we believe will assist in building learning technology that is attuned to the needs of diverse students and educators, based on modern learning principles and designed for broad adoption and scale.

EdTech 109

EdTech Teaching Library Humanities 109

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 25, 2021

Researchers say there’s likely been more progress – and some steps backward – since then, as they watch for the results of new federal programs established this spring. We have such close relationships with other city agencies, and local libraries and community centers. But there is only so much that the schools can do.”.

K-12 145

K-12 Library Lesson Plan Professional Development 145

The Hechinger Report

MAY 25, 2023

Research has become “increasingly clear” that career exploration should begin no later than middle school, said Maud Abeel, associate director at the nonprofit Jobs for the Future, who oversees the Possible Futures career exploration curriculum. She said she hopes other schools and districts can find ways to adopt similar models.

Middle School 139

Middle School Library Government Humanities 139

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 8, 2020

Luis Gallardo’s favorite place to study was the library at the University of California, Berkeley. They miss their friends, their freedom and learning from a human being instead of a screen, but their chances of graduating are unlikely to change. Luis Gallardo, student, University of California, Berkeley.

Political Science 145

Political Science Library Economics Educational Technology 145

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 25, 2024

At least at first, the ChatGPT Enterprise accounts will be available only to faculty, staff and researchers who submit proposals for how it could be used to further student success, generate new research and streamline organizational processes. Researchers, for example, will be able to use these tools to synthesize large data sets.

Library 124

Library Learning Science Research Humanities 124

ED Surge

MARCH 20, 2023

Composed of high-quality, human-read audiobooks and a suite of teacher resources to monitor and support student progress, the Learning Ally Audiobook Solution is designed to turn struggling readers into engaged learners. They also show improved assessment and high-stakes test scores. Learn more today.

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Library History Humanities Cultures 107