Mon.Sep 30, 2024

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The Lasting Frontier of Learning: A Conversation with NCHE’s Dalton Savage

NCHE

Pictured from left to right: Bill Weidner, Rob Good, Dalton Savage , and Chelsea Gutierrez This is the first in a series introducing the NCHE staff and giving members a closer look at their experience and current work. Dalton Savage, an Education Coordinator at NCHE, spoke with me about his experiences in the classroom and his current role at NCHE. We sat down on a Monday morning to briefly catch up.

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10 Amazing Research Projects Going On Right Now

TeachThought

10 Interesting Research Projects Shaping Our Future by TeachThought Staff AI-Driven Climate Modeling Researchers use advanced AI models to predict climate changes more precisely. This project integrates machine learning with global climate data to simulate potential outcomes. The goal is to identify key mitigation strategies for climate adaptation. By improving accuracy, policymakers can make better-informed decisions to combat climate change.

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Book Giveaway for Your Reconstruction Teaching Story

Zinn Education Project

Thanks to a donation of 25 books from the University of North Carolina Press, we can offer you a copy of historian Kate Masur and illustrator Liz Clarke’s new graphic history, Freedom Was in Sight: A Graphic History of Reconstruction in the Washington, D.C., Region , for your story on teaching about Reconstruction. It could be a story about using one of our lessons for middle and high school on Reconstruction or how you have introduced the report, Erasing the Black Freedom Struggle: How S

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The habits of 7 highly effective schools

The Hechinger Report

Everybody is trying to find ways to help students catch up after the pandemic. One new data analysis suggests some promising ideas. TNTP , a nonprofit based in New York that advocates for improving K-12 education, wanted to identify schools that are the most effective at helping kids recover academically and understand what those schools are doing differently.

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2024 Election Results

Society for Classical Studies

2024 Election Results kskordal Mon, 09/30/2024 - 08:31 Image The following members were elected in the ballot held this summer. They take office in January 2025, except for the three new members of the Nominating Committee who take office immediately. Thank you to all SCS members who agreed to stand for election this year. President-Elect Ralph Rosen VP for Professional Matters Antony Augoustakis VP for Program Joel Christensen VP for Publications and Research Sean Gurd Junior Financial Trustee

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OPINION: Schools are still struggling post-pandemic, but surprising success stories give us hope

The Hechinger Report

A much anticipated and highly hoped-for recovery from pandemic learning loss is, disappointingly, not materializing. Instead, grim findings from a recent analysis by three testing companies noted that stagnation is a general trend — with a few isolated exceptions. Those few bright spots hold powerful lessons for schools that are struggling, particularly those serving high percentages of low-income students.

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A Lost Neolithic Society: The Maghreb's Role in Mediterranean Prehistory

Anthropology.net

Recent archaeological fieldwork 1 in Morocco has uncovered a previously unknown Neolithic society, shedding new light on North Africa’s pivotal role in the development of Mediterranean prehistory. This discovery fills a significant gap in understanding the cultural and agricultural evolution of the region between 4000 and 1000 BC. The Maghreb, often overlooked during this dynamic era, is now recognized as a key player in intercontinental exchanges and societal transformations.

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Selecting Effective Edtech in the Age of AI

ED Surge

The rise of AI promises new solutions to long-standing challenges. It also introduces some challenges of its own. In addition to concerns over privacy, bias and reliability, AI is driving a flood of new products in a broad range of sectors, including education. As options pile up, districts and schools struggle to identify effective solutions amid clever marketing and bold promises.

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Archived Haints

Sapiens

SAPIENS’ 2024 poet-in-residence conjures the voices of those imprisoned in archives. ✽ when the writing is done reference room locked index cards slotted library doors bolted when the wide tables are wiped down, wet cloth over staccato-studded scratches when the stairs to the printing room are drowned in evening’s diluted pink light the security guard walks to his rickety wooden chair, leans on weathered faux leather baton, pulls a threadbare blanket over his shoulders, and folds into slumber. t

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Isostatic rebound

Living Geography

Back in the 1980s, isostatic rebound was very much part of my 'A' level teaching, with a bit of eustatic adjustment thrown in for good measure. The idea was that as glacial periods ended, the melting of thick ice sheets released pressure on the ground, to the extent that the ground started to rebound and rise up again. This story explores research into the possible impact of a river on the world's highest mountain.

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APSA’s Summer Rise Students Discuss High School Civic Education – Mahlet Ayele

APSA Educate

Over the past few years, the American Political Science Association and its members have renewed their commitment to high school civic education. In 2022, APSA’s Council approved the formation of the Committee on Civic Education , charged with exploring how … The post APSA’s Summer Rise Students Discuss High School Civic Education – Mahlet Ayele appeared first on APSA.

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Navigating Numbers - new from the ONS

Living Geography

New from the Office for National Statistics is Navigating Numbers. “Navigating numbers: how data are used to create statistics” includes a series of five classroom toolkits. Each toolkit is centred around an ONS tool or dataset that relates to a part of everyday life. These toolkits are free for teachers to reuse, subject to the Open Government Licence.

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APSA’s Summer Rise Students Discuss High School Civic Education – Amelia Goettsch

APSA Educate

Over the past few years, the American Political Science Association and its members have renewed their commitment to high school civic education. In 2022, APSA’s Council approved the formation of the Committee on Civic Education , charged with exploring how … The post APSA’s Summer Rise Students Discuss High School Civic Education – Amelia Goettsch appeared first on APSA.

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What’s New: October 2024

TCI

Explore these hidden gems in our slideshows, including a new feature for restarting slideshows, best practices for locked slides, and how to assign parts of the slideshow for easy classroom management. Restarting Slideshows: Classroom Activity and Lesson Outline slideshows can now be restarted. This feature clears notebook answers and progress from the slideshow, allowing teachers to start fresh with each new class.

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APSA’s Summer Rise Students Discuss High School Civic Education – Lydia Orgen

APSA Educate

Over the past few years, the American Political Science Association and its members have renewed their commitment to high school civic education. In 2022, APSA’s Council approved the formation of the Committee on Civic Education , charged with exploring how … The post APSA’s Summer Rise Students Discuss High School Civic Education – Lydia Orgen appeared first on APSA.

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Third Lecture Series: 75th Anniversary of FIEC

Society for Classical Studies

Third Lecture Series: 75th Anniversary of FIEC kskordal Mon, 09/30/2024 - 13:28 Image FIEC is pleased to announce the third (and final) series of lectures celebrating the 75th anniversary of its foundation, to be held online in October and November 2024. Please find below the program of the third lecture series. The full program (with abstracts) is also available on the FIEC website ( [link] ) , where lecture recordings will be posted after each lecture.

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Double Your Impact! | Support First Generation Scholars in the Profession

Political Science Now

From September 30th to October 7th, we invite you to join us in an extraordinary opportunity to make a difference in the political science profession. Your donation to the APSA Annual Fund during this week will directly support the First-Generation Scholar Travel Grants Program. But that’s not all – your generosity will go even further during this special week.

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Federalism Round Up

Passion for Social Studies

Do your students ever think their rights just appeared without a fight for them? Or, do they not realize the amount of people and hard work it took to create the Constitution? Honestly, these are common trends among students! Until they learn something, they will not just know it! So, they will not realize how power became divided between the federal government and individual states.

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Are Firms Gerrymandered?

Political Science Now

Are Firms Gerrymandered? By Joaquín Artés , Universidad Complutense de Madrid , Aaron R. Kaufman , New York University Abu Dhabi , Brian K. Richter , University of Chicago and Jeffrey F. Timmons , New York University Abu Dhabi We provide the first evidence that firms, not just voters, are gerrymandered. We compare allocations of firms in enacted redistricting plans to counterfactual distributions constructed using simulation methods.

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COLUMN: Education that convinces kids the world isn’t doomed

The Hechinger Report

Until she was nine years old, Aisha O’Neil grew up in Zion National Park, where her father was a ranger. “That place raised me just as much as my family,” she said. Her love of the park’s sandstone cliffs and caverns became the bedrock of her passion for the environment, and for securing a future where her own children could enjoy the same experiences that she did.

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College student voting is way up

The Hechinger Report

EWING, N.J. — Bethany Blonder and her friends lined up at the voter information table in the student union before organizers had even finished setting it up in time for lunch. It’s true that a fire drill had chased them there from their dorm on the campus of The College of New Jersey, or TCNJ. But the women were also quick to rattle off what they see as the existential issues that make them hell-bent on casting their ballots in the general election.