The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 29, 2024

LOCKHART, Texas — Sometime last year, Alfonso Sifuentes was on a bus tour as part of a chamber of commerce’s efforts to map out the future of the bustling Central Texas region south of Austin where he lives and works. There was chatter about why San Marcos, a suburb along one stretch of the Interstate 35 corridor, had little interest in a proposed expansion of Austin Community College into that area.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 29, 2024

Do new AI tools like ChatGPT actually understand language the same way that humans do? It turns out that even the inventors of these new large language models are debating that very question — and the answer will have huge implications for education and for all aspects of society if this technology can get to a point where it achieves what is known as Artificial General Intelligence, or AGI.

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Anthropology.net

OCTOBER 29, 2024

Recent groundbreaking research in Antiquity 1 has revolutionized the understanding of ancient Maya civilization. Utilizing cutting-edge lidar technology, researchers from Tulane University and Northern Arizona University have uncovered more than 6,500 structures hidden beneath the dense forests of Campeche, Mexico. This discovery not only reveals vast new settlements but also challenges long-held assumptions about the extent of Maya urbanization, including the existence of a previously unknown c

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 29, 2024

The post How My Students Turned a Challenge into an Opportunity for Innovation appeared first on Digital Promise.

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Political Science Now

OCTOBER 29, 2024

Does Political Diversity Inhibit Blood Donations? By Sung Eun Kim , Korea University and Krzysztof Pelc , Oxford University Does political diversity affect the prevalence of selfless behavior across a society? According to a recurrent finding from the study of social capital, ethnic diversity reduces prosocial behavior. We ask whether the same applies to partisan identity, by turning to a frequently used proxy for social capital: blood donations.

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Living Geography

OCTOBER 29, 2024

A very useful GIS-style resource for those exploring tropical rainforests.

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O-Level Geography

OCTOBER 29, 2024

Where is Big Sister's island located? How would the development brings both positive and negative impacts on the environment?

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 29, 2024

As Jennifer Hill’s eldest child was heading into fifth grade, she began to wonder how she would communicate with him in the hour between his school bus drop-off and her arrival home from work in downtown Cleveland. This story also appeared in WIRED. “There’s no phone in this house if something goes wrong,” she remembers thinking. “It’s not safe.” When Hill was a kid, there were no cellphones, sure, but there were landlines.

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Psychology Elementary School Research Public School 128

Political Science Now

OCTOBER 29, 2024

In the APSA Public Scholarship Program, graduate students in political science produce summaries of new research in the American Political Science Review. This piece, written by Irem B. A. Örsel , covers the new article by Ryan Copus, Ryan Hübert, and Paige Pellaton, “Trading Diversity? Judicial Diversity and Case Outcomes in Federal Courts” In recent years, for many political leaders, particularly Democrats, diversifying the judiciary has become a priority.

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Teaching American History

OCTOBER 29, 2024

The polls and pundits say this presidential election will be a close one, perhaps decided by a few thousand voters in a handful of states. Both the pollsters and pundits may be wrong, of course, but in case they are right, we might recall our first contested presidential election, the one that occurred in 1800. The first thing to recall about that election is that in 1800 the American people did something no people had done before.

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Anthropology News

OCTOBER 29, 2024

As a social media application feature, a hashtag (#) functions as an index that catalogs and retrieves content that has been tagged with a particular word or sequence of text. Over the last couple years, the use of #NoSaboKid has proliferated across social media platforms in the United States. In its dominant use, the term expressly names a figure of U.S Latinx youth who—having been born and/or raised in the Anglophone context of the U.S.

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Living Geography

OCTOBER 29, 2024

Years ago, when I first started teaching 'A' level there were some videos we used to watch on Cairo. They explored the City of the Dead, and the life in the city as it grew with new towns being built around the edge of the city. One aspect of life in the city that was focussed on was the role of the Zabbaleen. This article brings the story of this group up to date.

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Teaching 52

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 29, 2024

This story was produced by Chalkbeat and reprinted with permission. Sign up for Chalkbeat’s free weekly newsletter to keep up with how education is changing across the U.S. When immigration agents raided chicken processing plants in central Mississippi in 2019, they arrested nearly 700 undocumented workers — many of them parents of children enrolled in local schools.

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Education Week - Social Studies

OCTOBER 29, 2024

A Maine high school has piloted a new class called Election Year, where students dive deep into campaign politics.

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