Cult of Pedagogy

MAY 11, 2025

Listen to the interview with Tony Frontier: Sponsored by ExploreLearning and Listenwise 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? As the potential for students to misuse AI tools raises ongoing questions about accountability, cheating, and academic integrity, a scandal from the past offers insights into the future.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 19, 2025

Tech evangelists may be dazzled by the promise of AI, but two well-designed new studies one in China and one by a leading AI company signal trouble ahead. The two studies were conducted by a team of international researchers who studied how Chinese students were using ChatGPT to help with English writing, and by researchers at Anthropic, the company behind the AI chatbot Claude.

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Anthropology.net

MAY 15, 2025

In the story of human evolution, our hands often play a supporting role—literally and metaphorically. Yet what if the fingers of ancient hominins could tell us more than just when our ancestors picked up a stone tool? What if the bone beneath the surface preserved traces of not just what our relatives could do—but how they actually did it?

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Moler's Musing

MAY 27, 2025

In the past I have been asked, How do you decide which EduProtocols to use, and how do you stack them together? On the surface, a rack and stacked lesson looks like it just works. Kids are engaged and the transitions are smooth. But theres a lot of planning behind that flow. Decisions that start long before the first Gimkit or Frayer Model ever hits the board.

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C3 Teachers

MAY 5, 2025

with Tara DeVay In late summer 2015, as I prepared for my third-year teaching eighth-grade social studies in rural Western New York, I balanced many of the challenges that young teachers do: coaching, building curriculum, and searching for more meaningful ways to teach content. While my first two years had gone well, something was missing. The routine of covering material felt stagnant.

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ED Surge

MAY 9, 2025

Dual enrollment courses are considered some of the best ways to prepare students for the rigor and content in college-level curricula. Not only do these courses offer students a jump-start on credits once they get to college, but they also equip them with skills like time management, critical thinking and study habits that researchers say encourage them to enroll and stay in college.

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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 15, 2025

Domestication as a Turning Point in Human Evolution The domestication of plants and animals is often framed as a cornerstone of civilization. It’s the moment, we’re told, when our ancestors turned from the unpredictability of foraging to the structured stability of farming. Domestication allowed for permanent settlements, surplus food, the rise of states—and ultimately, the birth of what we call “history.” But what if this story gets it backwards?

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Moler's Musing

MAY 9, 2025

This week was all about pulling the threadtracing how specific events pulled the country apart and pushed us toward war. I built everything around one central theme: A Nation Divides Over Slavery. From court cases to debates, from compromises to elections, we kept the structure tight: retrieval, repetition, and real thinking. The protocols stayed familiar, the tasks stayed purposeful, and students had a chance to connect the dots, not just memorize them.

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Political Science Now

MAY 13, 2025

Prior to the 2024 US Presidential Election, APSAs Diversity and Inclusion Programs Department issued a call for submissions, entitled 2024 APSA Post-Election Reflections , for a PSNow blog series of political science scholars who reflect on key moments, ideas, and challenges faced in the 2024 election. The views expressed in this series are those of the authors and contributors alone and do not represent the views of the APSA.

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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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Cult of Pedagogy

MAY 27, 2025

Listen to the interview with Alex Shevrin Venet and bink jones ( transcript ): Sponsored by ExploreLearning and Listenwise 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? Something has gone wrong in the way many schools are handling student behavior, and we need to talk about it.

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A Principal's Reflections

MAY 11, 2025

Professional learning is an embedded element of every district and school, but the focus is usually on teachers. Leaders deserve support as well. Recently, on Unpacking the Backpack , I discussed the value of job-embedded and ongoing coaching for administrators backed by research after revisiting blog posts I wrote in 2018 and 2021. Listen on Spotify or wherever you access your favorite podcasts.

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Anthropology.net

MAY 16, 2025

In the shallow seafloor of Indonesia's Madura Strait, just off the coast of Java, an ancient landscape long hidden beneath the waves is beginning to come into focus. Through a combination of dredging operations, geological analysis, and fossil discovery, researchers have reconstructed a prehistoric river valley that once carried the Solo River eastward across what is now submerged Sundaland.

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Strange Maps

MAY 27, 2025

For about 250 years at the beginning of our era, two ancient superpowers coexisted at opposite ends of the vast Eurasian land mass. The Roman Empire and Chinas Han Dynasty were too far apart to be in direct contact, but they did know of each other. The Romans called China Seres , the mysterious land where silk came from. The Chinese had vague notions of Daqin , a mighty empire way out west.

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Political Science Now

MAY 9, 2025

The Effect of Protesters Gender on Public Reactions to Protests and Protest Repression By Martin Naunov , University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. This study examines how protesters gender shapes public reactions to protests and protest repression. Using an original survey experiment, I demonstrate that protests involving extensive participation by women are perceived as less violent and meriting of repression than male-dominated protests.

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ED Surge

MAY 19, 2025

There arent as many librarians in schools as there used to be. At first it wasnt as noticeable, as the reductions were local and the losses were absorbed by teachers. Nor did it happen all at once: Roles were left vacant after retirements, or they were replaced with lower paid aides or support staff. During the transition to digital learning, school librarians struggled to articulate why their roles were still essential to schools, which left them easy targets when districts faced funding shortf

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Moler's Musing

MAY 16, 2025

Tuesday – Number Mania Wednesday – Divide the Pie Friday – Netflix Template Monday – A Nation Prepares This weeks theme was A Nation Prepares for War, and Ill be honestI ran out of time. I really wanted to get into Reconstruction, but I refuse to gloss over material just to say I covered it. If Im going to teach something, Im going to do a thorough, intentional job.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 18, 2025

DAVENPORT, Iowa The Catholic prayer for the faithful echoed off the limestone walls and marble floor of the high-ceilinged chapel. It implored God to comfort the poor and the hungry. The sick and the suffering. The anxious and the afraid. Then it took an unexpected turn. Lord, hear our prayer for St. Ambrose and Mount Mercy University, the young voice said, that the grace of the Holy Spirit may help us to follow Gods plan for our new partnership.

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Anthropology.net

MAY 26, 2025

The Face in the Rock Shelter In the shadowy rock shelters of the Eresma River valley in central Spain, a curious stone was discovered in 2022—one that would go on to challenge deeply ingrained assumptions about the cognitive lives of Neanderthals. The object, a quartz-rich pebble about the size of a melon, bore three naturally formed indentations.

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Teaching American History

MAY 6, 2025

This blog was originally posted on May 5, 2022. We rerun it today to spotlight teacher Ginny Boles! Ginny Boles needed to build her content knowledge in American history. Paradoxically, her love of this history had led her to major in classics as an undergraduate at UCLA, so as to read the Latin and Greek texts the Founding Fathers read as they formulated their plans for self-government.

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Political Science Now

MAY 27, 2025

Prior to the 2024 US Presidential Election, APSAs Diversity and Inclusion Programs Department issued a call for submissions, entitled 2024 APSA Post-Election Reflections , for a PSNow blog series of political science scholars who reflect on key moments, ideas, and challenges faced in the 2024 election. The views expressed in this series are those of the authors and contributors alone and do not represent the views of the APSA.

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ED Surge

MAY 2, 2025

A new study shows trust is the most important factor for parents when choosing child care, with many leaning toward at-home programs or relying on their families, friends and neighbors. But researchers are concerned there is not adequate support in place for those systems to flourish, with the majority of legislation focused on bolstering child care centers.

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Moler's Musing

MAY 6, 2025

Sometimes, teaching history means peeling back the layers. Literally. It was late in the year, and I just wanted to mix things up. We’d been hitting heavy content, and I needed something differentnot easier, just… different. So I asked AI to help. We were covering the Lincoln-Douglas debates a pivotal moment tied to the expansion of slavery and the rise of the Republican Party.

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Strange Maps

MAY 5, 2025

The mountains of northern Laos are beautiful, but tough to negotiate. By car, it can easily take 15 hours to drive the 373 miles (600 km) of winding roads that separate the capital Vientiane from the town of Boten on the Chinese border. Since December 2021, theres a far straighter, much faster alternative: the brand-new high-speed Laos- China Railway (LCR) measures just 257 miles (414 km) between Boten and Vientiane, and fast trains cover that distance in three and a half hours.

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Anthropology.net

MAY 22, 2025

In 2008, in the remote reaches of Siberia, archaeologists retrieved a sliver of bone from Denisova Cave—a pinky finger no larger than a child's marble. No one could have predicted that this modest fragment would launch a redefinition of the human family tree. It wasn't the shape of the finger that caught scientists off guard. It was the DNA. A replica of an ancient finger bone found in Denisova Cave.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 5, 2025

For the last four years, school and public libraries have been drawn into a culture war that seeks to censor, limit and discredit diverse perspectives. Yet time and time again, as librarians have been encouraged or even directed to remove books that include LGBTQ+, Black, Latino and Indigenous characters or themes or history from their collections, they have said no.

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Political Science Now

MAY 23, 2025

Estimating Disenfranchisement in US Elections, 18701970 By Thomas R. Gray , University of Texas at Dallas and Jeffery A. Jenkins , University of Southern California While it is commonly understood that the poll tax and literacy tests, among other measures, were used effectively in the South to disenfranchise Black voters from the late nineteenth through the mid-twentieth century, what is not well known is how much those disenfranchising laws mattered.

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ED Surge

MAY 5, 2025

Bruce McLaren has committed his career to understanding how education technologies, especially digital games and intelligent-tutoring systems, can help children learn. At the Human Computing Interaction Institute at Carnegie Mellon University, McLaren develops digital learning games to study how effective they are in the classroom and beyond. One such game is called Decimal Point.

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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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Moler's Musing

MAY 24, 2025

Not long ago, I had a job interview where someone implied I might not be great at building relationships with students. Fair enough. I get how I come off. Im dry. Im short and to the point. Im introverted. I dont do grand entrances. Ive always been that way. But if you think I cant connect with kidsask my students. Coaching tennis helped me figure that out.

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Anthropology.net

MAY 16, 2025

In the deep past, long before written records or monumental architecture, human groups took part in a migration that would come to define the edges of our species' range. From the icy expanses of North Asia to the farthest tip of South America, early humans embarked on a journey that would span 20,000 kilometers and thousands of years. A new genomic study 1 , led by Elena Gusareva and colleagues from the GenomeAsia100K consortium, provides the clearest map yet of this extraordinary movement, rev

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 15, 2025

The recent decision to cancel $400 million in AmeriCorps grants is nothing short of a crisis. With over 1,000 programs affected and 32,000 AmeriCorps and Senior Corps members pulled from their posts, this move will leave communities across the country without critical services. The cuts will dismantle disaster recovery efforts, disrupt educational support for vulnerable students and undermine a powerful workforce development strategy that provides AmeriCorps members with in-demand skills across

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Political Science Now

MAY 16, 2025

Varieties of Values: Moral Values Are Uniquely Divisive By Jae-Hee Jung , University of Houston ; Scott Clifford , Texas A&M University. Political scientists have long viewed values as a source of constraint in political belief systems. More recently, scholars have argued that valuesparticularly moral valuescontribute to polarization. Yet, there is little direct and systematic research on which values are perceived as moral values.

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ED Surge

MAY 16, 2025

During the pandemic, school districts amassed an enormous amount of digital tools sometimes out of necessity, sometimes out of urgency. But with pandemic relief funding winding down and pressure mounting to demonstrate educational impact, many districts are now facing a new challenge: cleaning house. According to LearnPlatform , U.S. school districts used an average of 2,739 edtech tools during the 202324 school year.

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Studies Weekly

MAY 6, 2025

Social Studies Soundtracks: Using Music to Teach Social Studies May 2, 2025 By Debbie Bagley NEWSLETTER At first glance, social studies and music might seem like two separate subjects, but they can come together harmoniously to make learning more engaging and memorable. Music is a valuable tool for teaching social studies because it encourages memory and movement and evokes emotions.

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Digital Promise

MAY 9, 2025

The post When a Root Cause Analysis Brought a School Principal to Tears appeared first on Digital Promise.

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