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.

Professional Development 166

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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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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.

Archaeology 80

Archaeology Artifacts Anthropology Humanities 80

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.

Economics 106

Economics History Cultures Government 106

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.

Civics 26

Civics Political Science Government Leadership 26

ED Surge

MAY 29, 2025

Although it is not known for swiftness, the Supreme Court surprised the nation last week with a relatively speedy decision on its first case involving charter schools. The court heard oral arguments for St. Isidore of Seville Catholic Virtual School v. Drummond at the end of April, less than a month before issuing its decision. Arising out of a contested charter grant issued to an openly religious virtual charter school in Oklahoma, the case was a test of both the long-standing interpretation of

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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.

Teaching 52

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Political Science Now

MAY 27, 2025

Federalism and Democratic Backsliding in Comparative Perspective By Robert R. Kaufman , Rutgers University , R. Daniel Kelemen , Georgetown University and Burcu Kolcak , Rutgers University As a wave of backsliding has swept across both new and established democracies, scholars have sought to identify formal and informal institutions that can act as guardrails of democracy.

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ED Surge

MAY 27, 2025

True leadership involves not only encouraging teachers to reconnect with their purpose but also ensuring that they are seen, heard and supported, writes Ryan Burns, an instructional coach and adjunct professor in Warwick, Rhode Island, and a 2024-2025 fellow of the EdSurge Voices of Change Writing Fellowship. Over the last nine months, weve worked with eight fellows whose pathways in education are as diverse as they have ever been, including a trauma psychotherapist turned early childhood counse

Leadership 81

Leadership K-12 Education Elementary School 81

Anthropology News

MAY 27, 2025

A piercing alarm bell suddenly erupted, making a shiver run down my body. The noise came from the barrier-free restroom () in front of me, presently occupied by my two wheelchair-using friends. They had just entered the restroom together ten minutes earlier while I waited outside for them. Behind me was a busy metro station passageway where commuters were passing by quickly, showing puzzled or annoyed expressions at the roaring noise, and then continuing to run to the security check to catch the

Anthropology 52

Anthropology Advocacy Economics Research 52

The Hechinger Report

MAY 24, 2025

Decatur, Illinois, has been losing factory jobs for years. A training program at a local community college promises renewal and provides training for students from disenfranchised communities This story is part of a collaboration between the Institute for Nonprofit News Rural News Network and Canary Media , South Dakota News Watch , Cardinal News , The Mendocino Voice and The Maine Monitor , with support from Ascendium Education Group.

Leadership 82

Leadership Humanities Government Education 82

The Conversation - Politics + Society

MAY 27, 2025

Five elements determine which towns lose their papers and which ones beat the odds. Hans Henning Wenk/Getty Images Why did your hometown newspaper vanish while the next town over kept theirs? This isn’t bad luck − it’s a systemic pattern. Since 2005, the United States has lost over one-third of its local newspapers, creating “news deserts” where corruption is more likely to spread and communities may become politically polarized.

Tradition 34

Tradition Economics Government Research 34

Political Science Now

MAY 26, 2025

Extremism and Terrorism: Rebel Goals and Tactics in Civil Wars By Renanah Miles Joyce and Virginia Page Fortna , Columbia University Extremism and terrorism are thought to go hand in hand in civil wars. Yet do they? Are rebel groups with more extreme goals more likely than moderate ones to use terrorism, as commonly assumed? Arguments linking extremism to terrorism are often circular: groups are tagged as extremist because they do extreme things.

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Sapiens

MAY 27, 2025

Why is investing in and accumulating gold perceived as prestigious, but extracting it is seen as greedy? The gold industry, alongside nation-states, has marginalized the artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) sector for decades, but now things seem to be changing. The industry has realized that engaging with the ASM sector could be more beneficial for their reputation than excluding it.

Anthropology 62

Anthropology Library Economics Humanities 62

The Hechinger Report

MAY 25, 2025

Math anxiety isnt just about feeling nervous before a math test. Its been well-known for decades that students who are anxious about math tend to do worse on math tests and in math classes. But recently, some of us who research math anxiety have started to realize that we may have overlooked a simple yet important reason why students who are anxious about math underperform: They dont like doing math, and as a result, they dont do enough of it.

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The Conversation - Politics + Society

MAY 30, 2025

The Mexican-American community in southwest Detroit held a rally in March 2025, asking ICE to leave the immigrant community alone. Jim West/UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty Images Detroit’s population grew in 2024 for the second year in a row. This is a remarkable comeback after decades of population decline in the Motor City. What explains the turnaround?

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Civics Civic Engagement Economics Geography 37

Living Geography

MAY 27, 2025

Back in 1984, I visited Norway for the first time. I stayed with a family on the edge of Stavanger : a wonderful small village by the sea with rugged granite and numerous inlets, bridges and ferry journeys which we took including to the Prekestolen or 'Pulpit Rock' then eventually up towards Bergen and the fjords. This video looks at the impact of modern huge cruise ships on the city of Stavanger.

Economics 52

Economics 52

Anthropology.net

MAY 26, 2025

n a world where ancient warfare, monumental architecture, and elite burials dominate the archaeological record, the quiet clatter of an infant’s toy rarely gets a voice. But in the ancient Syrian city of Hama, a set of ceramic fragments—overlooked for nearly a century—has finally spoken. And what they tell us is not about kings or conquests, but about babies.

Archaeology 52

Archaeology Artifacts Museum 52

The Hechinger Report

MAY 28, 2025

Grace Veenstra has spent her life marveling at the volcanoes, glaciers and forests in her native Alaska. As a student at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, she worked for an institute that monitors ice floes, fires and other activity on the states vast landscape with satellites operated by the federal National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

Government 103

Government Social Science Research Humanities 103

The Conversation - Politics + Society

MAY 28, 2025

The bluegrass group Della Mae plays at an orphanage in Kyrgyzstan on its State Department-sponsored American Music Abroad tour in 2012. Photo: Paul Rockower At a time when China is believed to spend about US$8 billion annually sending its ideas and culture around the world , President Donald Trump has proposed to cut by 93% the part of the State Department that does the same thing for the United States.

Cultures 47

Cultures Government Humanities Leadership 47

Living Geography

MAY 27, 2025

The location for the BBC's Springwatch / Autumnwatch programmes has often been in places I know well, and even very close to home. From Pensthorpe near Fakenham to Minsmere, and particularly Ken Hill in Snettisham (where I lived for 12 years). And now they've moved to an area of Derbyshire which I visited regularly for decades when I was younger, for walks, climbing, pubs and generally getting out of the city and into the countryside at weekends.

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Anthropology News

MAY 27, 2025

thinking about peace i used to listen to the news while brewing Kaldis as a pot of grits was lifted then placed back on the heat seems like November brought a different wind a kind of darkened soliloquy the narrative shifted from young ones filling potholes in their neighborhood to another blue life taking a black the reproductive rights of women another attack and blah, blah, blah but as i write this i am in a courtyard surrounded by teenage laughter trying to write about silence in the backgro

Anthropology 102

Anthropology Cultures 102

ED Surge

MAY 28, 2025

When Marisha Speights first started as a speech language pathologist in preschools serving affluent families in Nashville, Tennessee, she used the typical screening and assessment measures that she believed and was taught worked well. But when she was placed in Jackson, Mississippi, at preschools that served poorer families, she found the tests were no longer working.

Research 95

Research Lesson Plan Cultures Education 95

Anthropology.net

MAY 29, 2025

At a forgotten cemetery in Bristol, England, buried under the ruins of a 19th-century workhouse hospital, archaeologists unearthed something rare—human brains. Not mummies. Not bog bodies. Just soft, shriveled, centuries-old brains, unexpectedly intact. What these brains carried wasn't just the silent history of anonymous lives but a molecular archive that science has long struggled to access: the deep, hidden record of ancient human proteins.

Humanities 69

Humanities Oral History Archaeology Archiving 69

Living Geography

MAY 26, 2025

An RGS Workshop for 'A' level teachers which looks excellent. It takes place on the 2nd of July. I've had a look at attending as it's on a Wednesday, but it would be too convoluted for me to get there in time for the start at 9.30 sadly. If you live a little closer this looks excellent. This one-day workshop is designed to introduce A Level teachers to new ways of explaining changing places with a particular focus on connections between people, the economy, and the ways that infrastructure(s) li

Economics 52

Economics History Teaching 52

Anthropology News

MAY 27, 2025

How do private investigators look for clues amongst the signal and the noise of our social lives? And what happens when everything is suspected and nothing known for sure? It was about ten oclock in the morning, mid-November, with the sun not shining and a look of hard wet rain on the hills. I was sitting at a table with John Keegan, a private investigator in a medium-sized British city.

Anthropology 52

Anthropology Cultures Humanities 52

ED Surge

MAY 30, 2025

When Molly Lane was a school social worker, walking down the hall with colleagues sometimes turned into impromptu therapy sessions. Parsing education data into snack-sized servings. It became clear, she says, that the school system wasnt doing enough to support teachers mental health. Those experiences led her to open Teacher Talk, a therapy practice that caters to the needs of educators.

Charter School 91

Charter School Lesson Plan High School Research 91

Political Science Now

MAY 28, 2025

Finding Meaning in Politics: When Victims Become Activists By Regina Bateson , University of Colorado – Boulder Victimization is often associated with increased political participation, and victims are influential political actors in many countries around the world. Yet for victims, activism is costly: they tell and re-tell painful stories, face searing criticism, and work to exhaustionall at one of the worst moments of their lives.

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Moler's Musing

MAY 30, 2025

“Not sure if I should say good morning or good night as it is 1:40am. We were talking about school and you came up in the conversation. I wanted to thank you for making learning easier and enjoyable.” That was the email. No subject line. No assignment attached. Just a student, up late, thinking, and choosing to send a thank you. I didnt need anything more.

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Leah Cleary

MAY 29, 2025

At the beginning of the school year, were often focused on building classroom community and learning students namesbut what if we could also introduce a vital historical thinking skill at the same time? This post is all about teaching the power of context with a getting to know you activity. Scroll down to learn how to access the free template. Read on for context on how to use it in history and other subjects.

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Teaching Primary Sources Library Tutoring 59

ED Surge

MAY 30, 2025

Wendy Lopez Elizondo traveled more than 800 miles last year to face her biggest professional challenge teaching in the United States. Armed with just two suitcases and far away from her Mexican home, Lopez Elizondo came to Crain Elementary School in Victoria, Texas, to work in the districts bilingual program. I wanted to support bilingual students, children who, like me, speak Spanish at home.

Elementary School 91

Elementary School Cultures Tradition Professional Development 91

Teaching American History

MAY 27, 2025

Mark your calendars! Our summer sale starts June 2 nd ! Educatorsthis is your chance to stock up on volumes for your classroom! Were offering three ways to save: 50% off select individual volumes $25 library sets Bulk pricing classroom sets As always, shipping is free! Individual Volumes $6/copy and free shipping! Edited and excerpted to make the complexities of the content more accessible to the high school and post-secondary audience, each volume contains a background essay, thematic table of

American History 52

American History Library Primary Sources History 52

The Conversation - Politics + Society

MAY 30, 2025

The Bonus Army demonstration at the U.S. Capitol on July 2, 1932. Underwood and Underwood, via Library of Congress Veterans across the United States will gather on June 6, 2025, to protest the Trump administration’s cuts to the Department of Veterans Affairs, as well as the slashing of staff and programs throughout the government. Veteran-led protests will be held at the National Mall, 16 state capitol buildings and over 100 other venues across 43 states.

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Government Psychology Economics Library 49

The Hechinger Report

MAY 28, 2025

Is the four-year college degree losing its grip on Americans dreams? Just as American colleges reach the demographic cliff a steep decline in the number of 18-year-old prospective freshmen higher education faces mounting pressure from all sides. President Donald Trump has targeted universities, slashing federal research funding and questioning their tax-exempt status painting them as overpriced and out-of-touch bastions of liberalism.

Tradition 61

Tradition High School Government Private School 61

ED Surge

MAY 28, 2025

If youve ever watched a student light up after cracking a tough problem or finally connecting the dots, you know learning is personal. Every classroom is filled with students who bring their own strengths, quirks and questions to the table. Personalized learning is about meeting kids where they are helping each one move forward at their own pace, in their own way.

Leadership 72

Leadership Professional Development Cultures Tradition 72

Political Science Now

MAY 29, 2025

From Gender Gap to Gender Gaps: Bringing Nonbinary People into Political Behavior Research By Quinn M. Albaugh , Queen’s University , Allison Harell , Universit du Qubec Montral , Peter John Loewen , Cornell University , Daniel Rubenson , Toronto Metropolitan University , and Laura B. Stephenson , University of Western Ontario The gender gap in voting is one of the most well-documented findings in survey research across democracies.

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TCI

MAY 30, 2025

The school year may be winding down, but we’re still hard at work on updates behind the scenes. When you return in the fall, youll see new features ready to support youlike assignments-based grading, correlations, and enhanced tools for accessibility and translations. A Simpler Way to Grade Correlations Made Easy New Tools for Accessibility and Translations Upgraded LMS Integrations A Simpler Way to Grade Were making grading easier and more flexible with new tools designed for your busy sc

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