ED Surge

MAY 12, 2025

When would I ever use this? Its a question that high school and middle school math teachers have heard many times. Some educators think its because math instruction is stuck in a rut. Procedural, boring and, in some cases, totally outdated , math lessons just dont seem to pull students in. Solving this motivation problem is tricky. It also connects to other issues, such as the rigid class sequences that some experts warn block certain students from advancing in math and that exclude courses lik

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Digital Promise

MAY 12, 2025

Leaders from across the country share how they took inspiration from schools in the Pittsburgh area to spur innovation in their districts.

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MAY 12, 2025

I never expected to write a booklet alone write one with someone like Dr. Scott M. Petri. (He always suggested you search his name with the ‘M’ because the other Scott Petri was a Republican representative in Pennsylvania). He was an AP teacher with a doctorate, living in Los Angeles. I was a middle school teacher from small-town Ohio. He was short.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 12, 2025

Nearly 4.5 million low-income college students would lose some or all of their federal financial aid if Republicans in the House get their way. Thats according to an analysis from the left-leaning Center for American Progress, shared exclusively with The Hechinger Report. The report looks at the ways a GOP House budget bill would affect Pell Grants, the federal financial aid program that covers college expenses for students from low-income families.

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TeachThought

MAY 12, 2025

The Library of Congress is the research arm of Congress and preserves U.S. cultural and intellectual history while offering public access to archives, copyright services, and educational resources.

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Catlin Tucker

MAY 12, 2025

Technology is a distraction. It just makes my job harder. My students cant focus when theyre online. I hear comments like these in almost every professional learning session involving technology. I don’t think teachers are frustrated with technology itself. Theyre frustrated with the way its being used, especially when it fails to create meaningful or engaging learning.

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Political Science Now

MAY 12, 2025

The Liars Dividend: Can Politicians Claim Misinformation to Evade Accountability? By Kaylyn Jackson Schiff , Purdue University ; Daniel S. Schiff , Purdue University ; Natlia S. Bueno , Emory University. This study addresses the phenomenon of misinformation about misinformation , or politicians crying wolf over fake news. Strategic and false claims that stories are fake news or deepfakes may benefit politicians by helping them maintain support after a scandal.

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Political Science 39

The Hechinger Report

MAY 12, 2025

Haishan Yang is a success story and a cautionary tale. Yang was the first person from his rural village in China to earn a scholarship to attend graduate school abroad. After receiving his masters degree in Austria, he earned a doctorate in economics in the United States and was working on a second Ph.D. when the University of Minnesota expelled him last fall.

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Institute for Citizens & Scholars

MAY 12, 2025

The post A Powerful Moment: College and University Presidents Unite to Inspire Graduates to Lead appeared first on Institute for Citizens & Scholars.

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APSA Educate

MAY 12, 2025

Political Science Educator: volume 29, issue 1 Reflections By Jack Santucci ( jack.santucci@gmail.com ) The Article Hunt (AH) is a tool for teaching students how to read academic articles quickly and research their own interests (Fisher and Frey 2014). It … The post Developing Reading Skills and Scientific Thinking through Article Hunt appeared first on APSA.

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Anthropology.net

MAY 12, 2025

In a quiet room humming with server stacks, a genomic dataset from nearly 300,000 Americans is doing something anthropologists have long tried to accomplish: capturing a living mosaic of human ancestry at a scale once unimaginable. The participants belong to the All of Us Research Program, an ambitious effort by the National Institutes of Health to create a biomedical database that actually reflects the population of the United States—not just those whose ancestry traces back to Northern E

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APSA Educate

MAY 12, 2025

By Elizabeth A. Bennion ( ebennion@iu.edu ) Generation Z makes up 20.7 percent of the US population. It is more racially and ethnically diverse than previous generations and on track to be the most educated. [i] Generation Z, along with … The post Youth Attitudes Toward Democracy: Advice for Political Science Educators appeared first on APSA.

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Education Week - Social Studies

MAY 12, 2025

The subject has become a minefield for teachers and schools in recent months. Do new civics mandates acknowledge that difficulty?

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Civics Education 77

Political Science Now

MAY 12, 2025

Call for Proposals APSA Virtual Teaching & Learning Symposium: Teaching Introduction to American Politics in Times of Uncertainty Application Deadline: June 8, 2025 | Submit Your Proposals Here The American Political Science Associations (APSA) Teaching and Learning Program is pleased to announce a call for proposals for a small cohort of political scientists to participate in a virtual teaching and learning symposium that will meet on Zoom between July 21-25, 2025.

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Civic Engagement Teaching Civics Political Science 52

APSA Educate

MAY 12, 2025

1 p.m. Eastern, Thursday, June 5, 2025 | Register Here Join our expert panelists for a discussion on teaching American Politics in times of political uncertainty and crisis. Responding to the current political environment in the United States, the panelists … The post Strategies for Teaching American Politics in Turbulent Times appeared first on APSA.

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Life and Landscapes

MAY 12, 2025

The Second Highest Rock in the Red River Gorge! Reggie Van Stockum with Skip Johnson on the ridge between the Red and Kentucky Rivers in Estill County, Kentucky. October, 2022 Just click the Vimeo link if the video doesn’t immediately appear: The Life and Landscapes Blog Site is at: www.vanstockum.blog/lookin Also find me at: www.facebook.com/reggievanstockum www.instagram.com/reggievanstockum www.vimeo.com/reggievanstockum www.youtube.com @reggievanstockum1097 www.tiktok.com/@reggiesrealm

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Teaching 52

APSA Educate

MAY 12, 2025

Call for proposals | APSA Virtual Teaching & Learning Symposium | Application Deadline: June 8, 2025 The American Political Science Associations (APSA) Teaching and Learning Program is pleased to announce a call for proposals for a small cohort of political … The post Call for Proposals: Teaching American Politics in Times of Uncertainty appeared first on APSA.

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Living Geography

MAY 12, 2025

The Agriculture & Horticulture Development Board (AHDB) and LEAF Education have teamed up to bring a suite of curriculum linked resources for KS3 KS5 students , aged 11-18. The resources bring real world context to students learning, linking back to food production and farming. The resources are designed to be used by teachers in school to aid with curriculum links, real life examples and interlinking with pre-existing subject matter and farmers delivering farm visits.

Education 52

Education 52

APSA Educate

MAY 12, 2025

Archived issues of The Political Science Educator through Vol. 27 can be found online at [link] Archived issues beginning with Vol. 26 are available at APSA Educate. Submissions: Please send any article submissions or announcements for future newsletters … The post Announcements, Copyright Policy, Submission Policy Summer/Fall 2025 appeared first on APSA.

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Living Geography

MAY 12, 2025

We have been following it with Year 8 students. He finished by summiting Mount Everest yesterday. There's a sign behind him with congratulations to the 2025 route fixing team from 8K Expeditions. This team of Sherpa are the real stars of the climbing season.

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MAY 12, 2025

Dear Colleagues, I hope this message finds everyone well as spring terms wrap up in the coming weeks. The Political Science Education Executive Committee has been busy with continuing and new initiatives this spring. As discussed at the Teaching and … The post Message from the President (Summer 2025) appeared first on APSA.

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Becoming a History Teacher

MAY 12, 2025

Photo by Brett Sayles on Pexels.com During the past two years Ive been on a rapid learning curve in my role as a basketball mum. I am still learning the rules of the game so this week, as I found myself watching a professional league basketball match, I was still having to seek clarification about refereeing decisions and turns in the play. However, I needed no support in understanding the mood of the court.

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APSA Educate

MAY 12, 2025

By Stefani Langehennig ( stefani.langehennig@du.edu ), Zach del Rosario ( zdelrosario@olin.edu ), Mine Dogucu ( mdogucu@uci.edu ) Introduction Despite their potential, Bayesian methods are rarely taught in undergraduate political science and public policy programs (Dogucu and Hu 2022). This gap … The post Surprise, Theyre Different! Comparing Frequentist and Bayesian Instructional Approaches in Political Science and Public Policy Classrooms appeared first on APSA.

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Political Science Now

MAY 12, 2025

Melisa Mendez, Indiana University Bloomington Melisa Mendez is a rising senior at Indiana University Bloomington majoring in political science with minors in international relations, American studies, and Spanish. She is a Hutton Honors student pursuing the Honors Notation and a recipient of both the GROUPS and 21st Century Scholars scholarships. A consistent high-achiever, she has been named to the Executive Deans List every semester since entering IU in 2022 and is a member of Phi Eta SigmaAlp

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APSA Educate

MAY 12, 2025

By Titus Alexander ( titusa03@gmail.com ) Socrates taught in ancient Athens but never published anything. Yet we imitate him today, over 2,000 years later, because his student Plato and generations of teachers adopted his method of asking questions to guide … The post Harnessing the Power of Social Models for the Greater Good appeared first on APSA.

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Political Science Education 52

The Hechinger Report

MAY 12, 2025

The outlook for federal spending on education research continues to be grim. That became clear last week with more cutbacks to education grants and mass firings at the National Science Foundation (NSF) , the independent federal agency that supports both research and education in science, engineering and math. A fourth round of cutbacks took place on May 9.

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APSA Educate

MAY 12, 2025

Political Science Educator: volume 29, issue 1 Reflections By Cristina Juverdeanu ( c.juverdeanu@qmul.ac.uk ) I teach an advanced qualitative methods course and, as most modules of the kind, it focuses on key concerns one should be aware of when … The post Teaching and Researching Vulnerabilitythe Challenge of Competing Demands appeared first on APSA.

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Research Teaching Political Science Education 52

APSA Educate

MAY 12, 2025

Political Science Educator: volume 28, issue 1 Reflections By Lila Hearn ( hearnl1@unlv.nevada.edu ) Modern political thought in the West cannot be understood apart from biblical tradition any more than it can be severed from the intellectual heritage of … The post Teaching Not Preaching: Scripture as a Pedagogically Necessary Tool in Political Theory appeared first on APSA.

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