Digital Promise

MAY 7, 2025

The post Student Agency and Academic Growth: A Case Study From Sylvan Hills Middle School appeared first on Digital Promise.

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Sapiens

MAY 7, 2025

An archaeologist considers whether students should learn from antiquities looted from Iraq. IN 2022, the Art Crimes Division of the FBI became interested in a palm-size piece of carved ivory held by Emory Universitys art museum in Atlanta, Georgia. Though missing portions, enough remained to know the ivory originally showed a sphinx striding on a mans head.

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Anthropology.net

MAY 7, 2025

By the time the sun rose over the jagged folds of the Catalan Pyrenees some 20,000 years ago, the snow crust had already hardened under the feet of a small band of Homo sapiens. They carried their belongings with care—scraps of dried meat, slings, and flint cores nestled inside hides tied into makeshift packs. These weren’t just travelers.

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Living Geography

MAY 7, 2025

A BBC Futures pag e delves into the methods used by climbers to overcome some of the effects of altitude when they attempt to climb the highest peaks, notably Mount Everest. Most expeditions take about two months, due to the need to acclimatise to altitude. Now a controversial and untested method of speeding up acclimatisation to altitude is being suggested, and the various drugs and other methods that some climbers apparently use are explored in this long article.

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ShortCutsTV

MAY 7, 2025

The latest edition of Crime in England and Wales, hot off the National Statistics press, has arrived with a dull thud on our doorstep and because youre all probably way-too-busy Tik-Toking (or whatever the kids do nowadays in lieu of revision) I thought Id do my usual Chicken Nuggets review (just the most tasty bits […]

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Living Geography

MAY 7, 2025

Another term-time Wednesday means it's time for another Worldly Wednesday. It's a shorter week because of the May Day Bank Holiday. Substack newsletter #18 was published today. Number 19 will be a scheduled post as next week I shall be heading down to Buckingham Palace. I spent the day writing, and made really good progress, fuelled by lots of music.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 7, 2025

U.S. universities have long relied on international students, and the big tuition checks they bring, to hit enrollment goals and keep the lights on. But now, just as the number of American college-aged students begins to fall the trend that higher education experts call the demographic cliff global tensions are making international students think twice about coming to the United States for college.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 7, 2025

MUSCATINE, Iowa The suspect moved menacingly toward her, but Elexiana Oliva stood her ground, gun drawn and in a half crouch as she calmly tried to talk him down. The confrontation wasnt real, and neither was the gun. But the lesson was deadly serious. Oliva is a criminal justice major at Muscatine Community College in this largely agricultural community along the Mississippi River.

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Living Geography

MAY 7, 2025

It may rain a lot (at times) in the UK, but in recent years we have also had increasingly long periods where the weather gets locked into a pattern for lengthy periods - the jet stream is not as predictable as it used to be. We are set for a drought this summer without lots of rainfall. We haven't built enough water storage in the last few decades - a lot of dams are actually operating beyond their predicted life as well.

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ED Surge

MAY 7, 2025

In Nebraska, its trauma-informed training to support Native American students. In Arizona, its an effort to expand existing school mental health services. In a Texas region with high suicide rates, its a program to increase the number of mental health providers. These are among the school mental health programs that could be on the chopping block thanks to Department of Education funding cuts.

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Political Science Now

MAY 7, 2025

Luke Bellinger, University of Texas at Austin Luke Bellinger is a government and humanities honors major at the University of Texas at Austin and a continuing student at Tarrant County College. He is a Sumners Scholar and earned the Harry Hale Award for undergraduate research from the Association for the Scientific Study of Religion. His main research interest is religion and politics, with a focus on political socialization in minority religious communities.

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ED Surge

MAY 7, 2025

With a curriculum that includes slavery, the Civil War, Reconstruction, two world wars and the Civil Rights Movement, American history teachers are used to venturing into emotionally charged subjects. Walking students through the unsettling complexities of the past has never been an easy job. But as history is about to take center stage in 2026 for 250th anniversary celebrations of the nations founding, there are growing signs that the work of teaching about the countrys past has become harder t

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Political Science Now

MAY 7, 2025

Reversion to the Mean, or Their Version of the Dream? Latino Voting in an Age of Populism By Bernard L. Fraga , Emory University ; Yamil R. Velez , Columbia University ; Emily A. West , University of Pittsburgh. In 2020, support for Joe Biden among Latina/o/x voters was 8 percentage points lower than support for Hillary Clinton in 2016, the largest drop of any racial/ethnic group.

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