Anthropology.net

APRIL 2, 2025

For decades, archaeologists believed that technological development in Paleolithic East Asia followed a slow, relatively stagnant trajectory compared to the dynamic shifts seen in Europe and Africa. The discovery of a sophisticated stone tool tradition in southern China is now forcing a major reassessment of that assumption. Recent excavations at the Longtan site in southwest China have uncovered a complete Quina lithic toolkit—previously thought to be exclusive to European Neanderthals

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Archaeology Artifacts Humanities Cultures 52

A Principal's Reflections

APRIL 27, 2025

" Trust isn't built through grand gesturesit's earned in the quiet moments where consistency, honesty, and empathy align." Writers block is real, especially if you have been blogging for as long as I have (15 years). Going back and reflecting on past posts through my podcast has enabled me to explore new angles on, in my mind, very important topics and concepts.

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Research Leadership Education 368

Cult of Pedagogy

APRIL 27, 2025

Listen to the interview ( transcript ): Sponsored by Zearn and EVERFI This page contains Bookshop.org links. When you make a purchase through these links, Cult of Pedagogy gets a small percentage of the sale at no extra cost to you. What’s the difference between Amazon and Bookshop.org? If there is one learning strategy I’ve probably talked the most about on this platform, it’s retrieval practice.

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Psychology Pedagogy Teaching Library 182

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 28, 2025

This story was first published by Voice of San Diego and is reprinted with permission. Community colleges have been dealing with an unprecedented phenomenon: fake students bent on stealing financial aid funds. While it has caused chaos at many colleges, some Southwestern College faculty feel their leaders havent done enough to curb the crisis. When the spring semester began, Southwestern College professor Elizabeth Smith felt good.

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Passion for Social Studies

APRIL 12, 2025

All teachers would probably agree that adding some strategically placed videos to your lessons can really enhance the experience for your students. Short, to-the-point videos that are seamlessly integrated into a lecture or activity can have a huge impact. This is especially true in AP Government , where students face dense content, abstract theories, and a mountain of required cases and documents.

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Government Civics Social Studies Economics 130

Teaching Anthropology

APRIL 10, 2025

Sherry Fukuzawa, University of Toronto Mississauga, Canada Artificial intelligence (AI) has become the elephant in the room in every classroom. However, this is even more of a concern in online courses. Unlike in-person assessment methods, it is difficult if not impossible to control student reliance on AI to support (if not write) online assignments and tests.

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Anthropology Critical Thinking Teaching Education 130

ED Surge

APRIL 8, 2025

When it comes to math, students are struggling. The recent national assessment underscored that by revealing that 24 percent of fourth graders are still performing below basic math skills, also shining a spotlight on an ever-growing inequality in math performance across the country. Other assessments such as the critical thinking-focused international PISA exam have also indicated declining math abilities.

Elementary School 126

Elementary School Pedagogy K-12 Professional Development 126

Cult of Pedagogy

APRIL 13, 2025

Listen to the interview with Susie Bell, Beth Blankenship, and Heather Messer ( transcript ): Sponsored by Zearn and EVERFI I was giving a presentation recently on differentiation , specifically about tiered assignments , a strategy that offers different tiers or levels of challenge, and students only work at the level that matches their current readiness.

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Sapiens

APRIL 9, 2025

Utterances like um, wow, and mm-hmm arent garbage, they keep conversations flowing. This article was originally published at Knowable Magazine and has been republished under Creative Commons. LISTEN CAREFULLY TO a spoken conversation and youll notice that the speakers use a lot of little quasi-wordsmm-hmm, um, huh?, and the likethat dont convey any information about the topic of the conversation itself.

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History Humanities Research Teaching 121

Thrive in Grade Five

APRIL 13, 2025

If you need help teaching social studies in 30 minutes or less daily, you’ve come to the right place. Of course, having such limited time to teach social studies is not ideal, but sometimes, this is a teacher’s reality. Social studies is a critical subject that should be given at least an entire class period daily. We all know that social studies instruction provides the essential background knowledge and nonfiction literacy skills that create excellent readers.

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Anthropology.net

APRIL 16, 2025

Roughly 41,000 years ago, Earth’s magnetic field—our planet’s protective shield—flickered and faltered. The magnetic poles drifted from their usual places, the field weakened to a tenth of its modern strength, and aurorae flared over continents that rarely see them. This episode, known as the Laschamps excursion, did not just create celestial fireworks.

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Humanities Archaeology Cultures History 109

ED Surge

APRIL 7, 2025

Its been a little over a year since Tram Gonzalez opened Color Wings Preschool in her home in Portland, Oregon. Of the 15 children enrolled in her program, 10 attend for free, covered in full by Multnomah Countys Preschool for All initiative, which was passed by Portland voters in November 2020 to create universal free preschool for all 3- and 4-year-olds who want it.

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NCHE

APRIL 1, 2025

The National Council for History Education (NCHE) is excited to announce a new partnership with the Library of Congress Teaching with Primary Sources program (TPS). As of February 2025, NCHE serves as the director of one of the Librarys newest regional granting entities, the Great Plains Region. The Great Plains region is one of six across the country whose role is to provide subgrants to organizations seeking to include Library resources in their educational programming.

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Library Primary Sources Museum Historic Sites 130

Anthropology 365

APRIL 23, 2025

I met Jon Marks in 2015, when I enrolled in the Masters program in anthropology at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. I had just finished a Bachelors degree in anthropology and philosophy at East Carolina University, full of ideas but unsure where they might lead. I was lucky to have been mentored by Linda Wolfe at ECU, a biological anthropologist with sharp instincts and a habit of cutting straight to the point.

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Anthropology Humanities Cultures History 98

Sapiens

APRIL 1, 2025

An anthropologist investigates the ongoing impacts of the U.S.-based United Fruit Companys fraught 1940s preservation of an ancient Maya site in Guatemala. The United Fruit Company was a U.S. multinational corporation and at one time, the largest landholder in Central America. To maintain authority in this part of the world, the company stamped out labor reform, collaborated with U.S.

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Archaeology Museum Anthropology Library 113

Strange Maps

APRIL 1, 2025

The size of your standard PDF matches the paper in your printer: A4 in most of the world, letter-sized in the U.S. and Canada. But standards are not limits. The biggest possible size for a PDF, it has long been said, is a square with sides 237.7 miles (381 km) long, for a total area of 56,047 square miles (145,161 km 2 ). Bigger than Greece If that PDF were a country, it would be the 94 th -largest in the world, considerably bigger than Greece.

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TeachThought

APRIL 28, 2025

Understanding how to play the 'count to 10' team-building game is about rules, timing, and sequence. Engaged students pick it up quickly.

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Teaching 255

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 14, 2025

The public release of ChatGPT in November 2022 changed the world. A chatbot could instantly write paragraphs and papers, a task once thought to be uniquely human. Though it may take many years to understand the full consequences, a team of data scientists wanted to study how college writing might already be affected. The researchers were able to gain access to all the online discussion board comments submitted by college students at an unidentified large public university before and after ChatGP

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Psychology Research Humanities Education 104

Anthropology.net

APRIL 30, 2025

At first glance, the animal figures painted on rock shelters in the northeast Kimberley look deceptively simple—thin outlines of kangaroos, some barely adorned, others stylized into abstract form. For decades, they were thought to be remnants of an earlier, Ice Age aesthetic, part of a vast visual tradition called the Irregular Infill Animal Period (IIAP).

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Archaeology Oral History Anthropology Archiving 88

Moler's Musing

APRIL 11, 2025

This week wasnt about cramming in new content or racing toward a testit was about building something that lasted. We used a layered mix of retrieval, reading, analysis, structured writing, and reflection, and each protocol helped us answer a bigger question. Coming off spring break, I knew students would need structure but also some momentum. So I stacked the lessons with intention.

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Primary Sources History Humanities Government 98

ASHP CML

APRIL 10, 2025

Last week, the ASHP was one of many organizations and individuals suddenly notified about the termination of grants funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities. The notification letter asserted that each “grants immediate termination is necessary to safeguard the interests of the federal government.” In addition, the agency was severely hobbled by mass firings: reportedly about 75% of its staff were abruptly informed that they had been fired.

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Museum Archiving Library American History 98

Sapiens

APRIL 22, 2025

Unable to vote in her home country, a Venezuelan immigrant in Chile decides to organize her own mock election. In this episode, social anthropologist Luis Alfredo Briceo Gonzlez talks about his experiences as a foreign researcher in Chile. During his fieldwork, he met Marta, a Venezuelan woman residing in an informal settlement on the outskirts of Santiago.

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Anthropology Human Rights Library Humanities 90

The Effortful Educator

APRIL 8, 2025

Maybe its just me, but I think teachers are pretty good at making things more difficult than they need to be. Take spaced practice and retrieval practice , for example, which are two of the most researched and effective learning strategies any teacher can employ in their classroom to positively impact student outcomes. While I appreciate being really granular about the research surrounding these topics and more, the most important thing we can do is just employ them in the classroom.

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Psychology High School Research Teaching 99

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 8, 2025

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. In a corner of Huffman High School, the sounds of popping nail guns and whirring table saws fill the architecture and construction classroom. Down the hall, culinary students chop and saute in the schools commercial kitchen, and in another room, cosmetology students snip mannequin hair to prepare for the states natural hair stylist license.

High School 98

High School K-12 Economics Advocacy 98

Anthropology.net

APRIL 10, 2025

A Jawbone from the Edge of the Map Long before shipping lanes crossed the Taiwan Strait, and long before Taiwan was an island at all, an archaic human jawbone settled into the mud of the ancient seabed. There it rested for tens of thousands of years — until a fishing net hauled it back into daylight. An analysis of proteins in this jaw, found by fishermen off Taiwan’s coast, indicate that the fossil comes from a Stone Age population called Denisovans.

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Moler's Musing

APRIL 17, 2025

This week was all about keeping the momentum goingconnecting reform movements, industrialization, and women’s rights in ways that actually made sense to students. Some lessons flowed just like I hoped. Others forced me to think on the fly (shoutout to the surprise Wi-Fi outage). But through it all, I leaned on purpose-driven protocols, reframing simple tasks to get kids thinking deeper, and using toolswhether AI or no-techintentionally.

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History Critical Thinking Education 89

TeachThought

APRIL 11, 2025

Learning Myths That Are Slowing You Down and What Actually Works Lets face it. Everyone wants to learn faster.

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Tutoring Education 222

ED Surge

APRIL 24, 2025

Gen Z is in an awkward phase. Parsing education data into snack-sized servings. The oldest of the cohort born from 1997 to 2012 are in their mid- to late 20s and taking heat for chafing against workplace culture in ways that come off as entitled (sound familiar, millennials?). The youngest Zoomers, as theyre also known, are around 13 years old and still have years left in public school systems dealing with frequent upheavals due to federal-level uncertainty , politicization of essential servic

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Education Library Cultures Public School 89

Anthropology 365

APRIL 7, 2025

On the May 12th, 2025 cover of Time Magazine , you will see a picture of a white wolf below the bold word Extinct slashed through with a red block. Below it reads “This is Remus. He’s a dire wolf. The first to exist in over 10,000 years. Endangered species could be changed forever.” This is also being reported widely by publications like New York Times , Newsweek , Live Science , and USA Today.

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Ancestry Heritage Research History 89

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 16, 2025

What if colleges started applying to you instead of the other way around? The anxiety-inducing college admissions game is changing. With declining birth rates and growing skepticism about the value of a degree, higher education is facing an enrollment cliff, set to hit hard in 2026. Thats 18 years after the Great Recession, when many American families stopped having babies.

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Archiving High School Leadership Economics 91

Anthropology.net

APRIL 30, 2025

By the time Europeans arrived in the Americas, thousands of distinct Indigenous languages had already shaped the way people described landscapes, kinship, time, and the cosmos. These languages, many of which still survive today, are more than means of communication—they are archaeological strata encoded in speech. A new study in Scientific Reports 1 argues that their grammar preserves a faint but measurable imprint of the first humans to populate the continent.

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Ancestry Archaeology Archiving Artifacts 83

Moler's Musing

APRIL 25, 2025

This week was about layering, connecting, and getting students to own the contentnot just memorize it. Every protocol, every sequence was designed to move students from basic retrieval to deeper understanding without overwhelming them. Nothing fancy. Nothing over the top. Just intentional teaching. Monday – Abolitionist Reformers Thick Slide Tuesday/Wednesday – Superlatives Thursday – Abolitionists/Women’s Suffrage Reading and AI Evaluation Friday – Reform Movements

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Critical Thinking History Social Studies Teaching 72

TeachThought

APRIL 28, 2025

Teaching Strategies For Maslow’s Hierarchy Of Needs by TeachThought Staff Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs, developed by psychologist Abraham Maslow in […] Source

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Teaching 206

ED Surge

APRIL 9, 2025

From customer service chatbots to personalized shopping recommendations, artificial intelligence has become integral to our daily lives. Mainstream generative AI tools, which can create original content, have risen dramatically in popularity. Many educators have begun exploring these tools to streamline administrative tasks from composing parent emails to analyzing assessment data and differentiating instruction.

Education 91

Education Professional Development Tutoring Teaching 91

The Effortful Educator

APRIL 1, 2025

Okay. Watch the video below. My son is going to teach you how to solve a Rubik’s Cube. Ready. Set. Go. In a little less than five minutes, my son provided a step-by-step tutorial and now you know how to solve a Rubik’s Cube…right? You listened to him. You watched him. If I gave you a Rubik’s Cube right now and assessed your ability to solve this puzzle, could you do so successfully?

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Humanities Teaching Education 80

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 13, 2025

Taking college courses through dual enrollment has been the most rewarding part of my high school experience so far. As a teenager at Lake Nona High School in Orlando, I get to explore my interests in public relations and communications by taking courses at a nearby community college, Valencia. Dual enrollment in college classrooms is helping me save money on college, and it also helped me get an after-school tutoring job at Kumon my mentors in Valencia College s tutoring program inspired me and

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Tutoring High School Leadership Government 77

Anthropology.net

APRIL 3, 2025

The end of the last Ice Age, spanning approximately 14,000 to 11,600 years ago, was a period of significant climatic fluctuations that profoundly influenced human populations in Europe. A recent study published in PLOS One 1 by a team of 25 archaeologists from various European institutions offers a comprehensive analysis of how these prehistoric hunter-gatherer communities responded to environmental changes during the Final Paleolithic.​ The map shows population shifts from south-western t

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