NCHE

DECEMBER 2, 2024

When a Pennsylvania school board in 2020 pulled over 300 books and materials from school bookshelves, a student group at the high school, the Panther Anti-Racist Union, took note. All the banned books were by or about people of color or of diverse genders (including even a student PowerPoint on helping minority students take the SAT). Faculty sponsors Patricia Jackson and Ben Hodge helped the students to first talk with the administration, after which the group decided to hold a series of mornin

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World History Teachers Blog

NOVEMBER 30, 2024

Teaching the French Revolution? Was it just ten years of senseless killing? That's what columnist Peggy Noonan suggested in an essay for the Wall Street Journal. Two historians, Mike Duncan, a revolutionary history podcaster, and David A. Bell, a history professor at Princeton, took Noonan to task on Twitter for not knowing her history. Both historians suggest that the revolution, while horrifically violent, made significant contributions to the world.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Since the pandemic, the number of students who are missing class has risen. More than a quarter of students were “chronically absent,” meaning they had missed 10 percent of classes or more, during the 2021-2022 school year. That was a steep increase from the 15 percent of students missing that much class before the pandemic. In fact, absenteeism has become such a nationally notable problem that it was picked up by the White House in May.

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Digital Promise

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

The post How We’re Harnessing the Power of Project-Based Learning in the Republic of Georgia appeared first on Digital Promise.

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Life and Landscapes

NOVEMBER 28, 2024

SURROUNDING BRANDENBURG Meade County, Kentucky is like a pirate’s treasure. A golden chest of hidden history clothed in science and culture, and lying within the ancient coastline of its miles of Ohio River frontage. The Promised Land drawing buffalo and people to that defining border’s stopping point. Three hundred and twenty-five square miles.

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World History Teachers Blog

NOVEMBER 29, 2024

One of my favorite sites for teaching medieval cities like Mali, Calicut, and Quanzhou is called Sites of Encounter in the Medieval World. It comes from The University of California at Davis and includes lessons with primary sources, maps, charts, and graphs. The lesson on Calicut, for example, explores the importance of the spice trade in food and medicine and even includes medieval recipes.

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Anthropology.net

NOVEMBER 30, 2024

Discovery of a Potential New Human Species A groundbreaking study published in Nature Communications 1 has proposed the existence of a new human species, Homo juluensis. This ancient hominin, believed to have lived in eastern Asia between 300,000 and 50,000 years ago, is a significant addition to our understanding of human evolution. Led by Professor Christopher J.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

MARION, N.C. — It was 5:45 a.m. when three buses with “McDowell County Schools” painted on their sides rumbled through the mist into the gravel lot at Sandy Andrews Park. Starlight revealed the silhouettes of large oak trees lying on their sides, ripped from the earth by a storm that had dropped 40 trillion gallons of water across the Southeast just five weeks earlier.

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Anthropology News

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

In January of 2021, I was employed as a postdoctoral researcher in a division of public health at a medical school. This provided early access to the COVID-19 vaccine. Although there was great discussion of the ethics of receiving vaccines in the early part of the vaccine roll-out, I opted to get the vaccine once it was available for all hospital employees, after prioritizing front-line healthcare workers, the elderly, and other vulnerable groups.

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World History Teachers Blog

NOVEMBER 28, 2024

Here are some fascinating Islamic art and architecture threads from the Arabic Art House Bayt Al Fann. They include threads about Islamic calligraphy, Islamic gardens, unique mosques in Africa, the dome interiors of mosques worldwide, and the use of geometric patterns in Islamic art. These threads, which I have saved as pdfs, could work well in a unit on Islam in World History.

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Anthropology.net

NOVEMBER 29, 2024

A groundbreaking study analyzing the DNA of 131 ancient individuals across the Caucasus region has revealed a deep genetic and cultural divide between populations north and south of the Caucasus Mountains. Spanning nearly 6,000 years, this research, published in Nature 1 , showcases how some groups transitioned into farming societies while others maintained hunter-gatherer lifestyles.

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Moler's Musing

DECEMBER 1, 2024

The Ohio EduProtocols Roadshow on October 25, 2024, at the Northern Buckeye Education Council’s headquarters brought together educators from Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, and West Virginia for an unforgettable day of learning, collaboration, and inspiration. This transformative professional development event showcased the power of EduProtocols to revolutionize teaching, engage students, and create lasting impacts in classrooms, schools, and districts.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 2, 2024

The need to teach responsible and ethical digital habits has never been more pressing. For students, digital citizenship isn’t just a skill — it’s essential to navigating everything from staying connected with their friends to learning about the world around them, to preparing for college and career. But with technology advancing so quickly, how can we help young people make healthy choices?

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Sapiens

DECEMBER 2, 2024

A 19th-century prophetess reportedly bore a serious message from the ancestors to her Xhosa people amid British colonial assault. The written archives judged her—but much still remains unknown and unacknowledged. ✽ according to the news the 6th of June, 1856, was a normal day in the cape the only disturbance was that the Imperial supply shop unexpectedly ran out of sugar so all the tea was bitter, acrid on the tongue. the printed letters on folded pulp said nothing of the thousands of bovine nec

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World History Teachers Blog

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

Should we throw out everything we’ve learned about the Silk Roads? The writer William Dalrymple thinks that we should in this fascinating essay for the Guardian titled "T he Silk Road still casts a spell, but was the ancient trading route just a Western invention? " He notes that the term “silk road” was a Western invention popularized by a Prussian geographer in 1877 and did not appear in English until 1938.

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Anthropology.net

NOVEMBER 28, 2024

In an extraordinary glimpse into the distant past, fossilized footprints unearthed 1 in Kenya reveal two ancient hominin species coexisted and shared the same landscape 1.5 million years ago. These footprints, preserved on what was once a muddy lakeshore, offer groundbreaking evidence of Homo erectus and Paranthropus boisei traversing the same terrain, potentially within hours of one another.

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Living Geography

NOVEMBER 30, 2024

Steve Brace shared a moment of fame on BBC Sounds as he discussed the origins of Sheffield's street names with a local radio presenter. Listen here. What are the interesting histories of street names close to you? I've already spoken about that in my Presidential lecture.

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Society for Classical Studies

DECEMBER 2, 2024

CFP: Rome and Iberia V: Diversity of Relations from Antiquity to Modernity kskordal Mon, 12/02/2024 - 13:18 Image The Department of Spanish Studies and the Department of Classical Philology of the University in Lodz would like to invite you to the fifth interdisciplinary academic conference Rome and Iberia V. Diversity of Relations from Antiquity to Modernity April 10-11, 2025 We are delighted to invite you to participate in the fifth interdisciplinary international academic conference on the re

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Life and Landscapes

DECEMBER 2, 2024

SURROUNDING GLASGOW Glasgow, Kentucky. How to reach this hidden oasis? I recommend this route for your driving pleasure, riding down Highway 31 East in Central Kentucky. So get off Interstate Highway 65 at Elizabethtown and take the Lincoln Parkway [Highway 61] down to Hodgenville. Then turn south, at that famous city square with the statue of Lincoln, onto Highway 31 East, itself.

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World History Teachers Blog

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Why was the Taiping Rebellion a turning point in Chinese Civilization? Scholar Rana Mitter describes the rebellion for Facing History. He notes that it was probably the single most bloody civil war in history and perhaps one of the most bizarre because it involved a figure who claimed to the younger brother of Jesus Christ.

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Anthropology.net

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

A groundbreaking discovery 1 from Prado Vargas Cave in northern Spain is reshaping perceptions of Neanderthals, highlighting their advanced cognitive and cultural practices. A collection of 15 marine fossils, deliberately transported to the cave over 39,800 to 54,600 years ago, reveals that Neanderthals may have been the first fossil collectors in human evolutionary history.

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Living Geography

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Daniel Raven Ellison has previously behind the making of a number of films, including: The UK in 100 Seconds - narrated by the late Benjamin Zephaniah The UK National Parks in 100 Seconds - narrated by Cerys Matthews The Netherlands in 100 Seconds See them here. He is now planning to release his latest film. Of the UK film, Dan said: "I don’t think anyone really has a clue what Britain actually looks like.

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ShortCutsTV

DECEMBER 2, 2024

I always found teaching “the experimental method” in sociology a little dull because there were relatively few examples I could use to illustrate the genre. And most of what were available seemed to be created by psychopaths psychologists.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

Hello! I’m traveling back from the Bright Start International Conference where I spent the last few days learning about early childhood policies, systems and best practices worldwide. This week’s newsletter comes to you from Caroline Preston, Hechinger’s managing editor, who writes our climate and education newsletter. You can sign up for the newsletter here.

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Life and Landscapes

DECEMBER 1, 2024

I met Dr. Ronald Van Stockum at the Ravenna Railroad Festival and bought this book (Surrounding the Kentucky River). After a peppy conversation, I learned he had visited many places in Carroll County, at the mouth of the Kentucky River. After a lifetime of living in Carroll and Owen Counties, we were very familiar with the graphics of this location.

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Anthropology.net

NOVEMBER 30, 2024

The LaPrele Mammoth Site: A Window into Early North American Life Archaeological discoveries at the LaPrele mammoth site in Wyoming continue to shed light on the ingenuity and adaptability of Early North Americans, who lived in North America nearly 13,000 years ago. Among the latest findings, researchers have uncovered bone needles crafted from the remains of fur-bearing animals, suggesting these ancient humans produced garments that helped them survive cold climates.

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Living Geography

DECEMBER 2, 2024

The UN Foresight Report is Futures facing and looks at reporting research The present report “Navigating New Horizons – A Global Foresight Report on Planetary Health and Human Wellbeing”, produced by UNEP in collaboration with the International Science Council. The report calls for the world to pay heed and respond to a range of emerging challenges that could disrupt planetary health and wellbeing.

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Zinn Education Project

NOVEMBER 30, 2024

Jessica Rucker, Kate Masure, Maya Davis at NMAAHC on Nov. 12. By Robert Stewart, Smithsonian. On November 12, the National Museum of African American History and Culture hosted a conversation about the new graphic history , Freedom Was in Sight. Grounded in the history of Washington, DC, and the surrounding region, Freedom Was in Sight challenges Reconstruction’s conventional end point of 1877 and introduces readers to well-known and lesser-known people who worked to empower the Black community

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ShortCutsTV

NOVEMBER 30, 2024

Someone whose name escapes me once said: “We do not remember days, we remember moments”. And that’s the thing about memory. It doesn’t really work the way commonsense tells us it works. It’s not a simple mechanical process whereby memories are stacked and stored in nice neat compartments, like boxes in a warehouse.

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Life and Landscapes

NOVEMBER 30, 2024

“The Civil War in Kentucky” is a 10-part series recently published in my Journey Log entitled “Surrounding Fort Knox, including Southern Indiana.” It deals primarily with the Central Kentucky Theater. I present it here as a series of individual blogs for my readers. Links to the previously published chapters will be provided at the end of each blog.

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Anthropology.net

NOVEMBER 30, 2024

Tracing Humanity's Journey Through the Pacific The dispersal of Homo sapiens into the Pacific region has long fascinated archaeologists. However, questions surrounding the timing and routes of this migration remain contentious. Recent findings 1 at Mololo Cave on Waigeo Island, detailed in a study led by Dr. Dylan Gaffney and an international team of researchers, provide groundbreaking evidence of human presence in Wallacea dating back 50,000 to 55,000 years ago.

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Living Geography

DECEMBER 1, 2024

Last Saturday night, I went to the Cambridge Union to see an event that had been arranged as part of the Cambridge Literary Festival. The weather was wet and windy due to Storm Bert , and there were also train issues due to engineering works, but the city was busy with Christmas shoppers. The Union was packed and also very hot. Mackenzie has written and illustrated a short book - not a children's book - an interesting format really - imagining Nick Drak e coming to his house, and modelled on a b

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Society for Classical Studies

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

CFP: Mens Mutata: Altered Minds in Antiquity kskordal Wed, 11/27/2024 - 08:13 Image Call for Papers - Mens Mutata: Altered Minds in Antiquity (March 29, 2025) | Boston University Graduate Student Conference Ancient societies considered altered states of mind as a bridge between the human and the divine, an avenue for healing, or a means of personal transformation.

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Teaching American History

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Teaching American History is excited to announce the release of our latest core document volume, the second edition of Free Speech. Edited by Joseph Fornieri , this reader contains a collection of twenty-six landmark court cases, an introductory essay, case introductions, a thematic table of contents, study questions, glossary, and suggestions for further reading.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Traducción por : César Segovia Read in English Hay mucho que considerar a la hora de decidir a qué universidad postularte. Los costos de matrícula, las ofertas de ayuda financiera y los préstamos estudiantiles están en los primeros lugares de la lista, pero también lo están las preguntas sobre la cultura del campus y las políticas de libertad de expresión.

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Anthropology.net

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

When we think about human evolution, it’s easy to focus on the biological milestones—tools, fire, and the emergence of Homo sapiens. But what if the story of our ancestors’ journey across the globe was written just as much by the environment? A recent study, "Mid-Pleistocene Aridity and Landscape Shifts Promoted Palearctic Hominin Dispersals 1 ," explores how sweeping climate changes during the Mid-Pleistocene era (about 1.25–0.7 million years ago) sculpted the landscapes

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Living Geography

DECEMBER 1, 2024

Leaving aside the obvious reply to this headline. In Year 8, around Christmas time, we unpick the lyrics used for the different versions of this song. A new 40th anniversary recording has now been released. There has been a lot of coverage of the song, and also the criticisms of the lyrics. More to come on this.

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