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 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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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 Procedural, boring and, in some cases, totally outdated , math lessons just dont seem to pull students in.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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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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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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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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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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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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The Hechinger Report

MAY 14, 2025

Megan Newsome was 27 weeks pregnant when she was diagnosed with a rare form of non-Hodgkin lymphoma, a cancer of the blood. After her son was born four weeks early, Newsome underwent intensive chemotherapy treatments while her newborn gained strength in the neonatal intensive care unit. Newsome, who lives in Maine, suddenly found herself navigating a complex and expensive web of her own health challenges, as well as her sons.

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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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ED Surge

MAY 13, 2025

When Angela Dominguez took the helm of Donna Independent School District in Texas in 2021, she thought the districts original decision to use most of its federal Elementary and Secondary School Relief (ESSER) money to pay for existing fourth- and fifth-grade teacher positions was short-sighted. I was like, Did you guys think that we were going to just do without fourth and fifth grade after ESSER?

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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 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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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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ED Surge

MAY 14, 2025

The Student Privacy Pledge a voluntary promise to protect student data ceased. The pledge was started to convince edtech companies to adopt transparency standards for working with K-12 schools. Its an artifact of the early days of the edtech industry, when many states had yet to create laws around how these companies handle data. Now that states are governing this area more thoroughly, the nonprofit behind the pledge recently retired it, according to a note on the website , which nodded toward

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Anthropology.net

MAY 13, 2025

“The archaeological record shows shifts in empires and cultures. But beneath the soil, the genetic signal told a different story—of people staying put, generation after generation.” A Long Memory in the Zagros On the northern edges of the Iranian Plateau, where the foothills of the Alborz Mountains give way to fertile valleys and ancient caravan trails, archaeologists and geneticists have uncovered an unexpected thread in the human story.

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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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History Havoc

MAY 13, 2025

Not long ago our school librarian asked what our favorite books were. She played a little contest with students and staff as to who could name which teachers chose which books. It was a fun thing to do and in the end she sent us an email with the answers. I was chose a book that not only is one of my favorites but one that the library probably had. I chose Night by Elie Wiesel.

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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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Anthropology.net

MAY 13, 2025

In the remote northern reaches of the Isle of Skye, archaeologists have unearthed 1 compelling evidence that challenges long-held beliefs about the extent of human migration during the Late Upper Paleolithic period. Recent findings indicate that groups associated with the Ahrensburgian culture, known for their reindeer hunting prowess, may have traversed the harsh landscapes of post-glacial Scotland, reaching areas once thought uninhabitable during the Younger Dryas.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 13, 2025

Two years into Stephanie Stachuras apprenticeship as an electrician in Chicago, she saw something she had never seen before: another woman working on the job site. I had a fangirl moment because I was just in awe of her, Stachura said. She was older and had been in it since she was younger. Stachuras surprise stemmed from the fact that women make up a tiny proportion of workers in skilled construction trades in the United States.

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Political Science Now

MAY 15, 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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Teaching American History

MAY 13, 2025

This blog was originally posted on May 12, 2021. We rerun it today on the 179th anniversary. 175 Years Ago Today: Congress Declares War on Mexico, Invoking Manifest Destiny and Destabilizing the House Divided During the first half of the nineteenth century, the young American republic expanded across the continent at a rapid pace. Purchasing the vast Louisiana territory from France, acquiring Florida from Spain, displacing Native sovereignties in the Southeast, annexing the republic of Texas, an

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Anthropology.net

MAY 15, 2025

Reconsidering the Prehistoric Dead of Northwest Africa For decades, the prehistoric heritage of North Africa has lived in the shadow of its pharaonic and Roman successors. The sands of Egypt and ruins of Carthage dominate popular and scholarly imagination alike. But what if we turned west, to the windswept ridges and limestone caves of the Tangier Peninsula, where ancient communities carved their beliefs into rock, built cemeteries atop hills, and placed standing stones in deliberate alignment w

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 14, 2025

The Hechinger Report was among the first nonprofit news outlets to focus on a single topic, in our case, education. We launched in 2010, and our site has become a deep repository of some of the best education journalism in the nation. All of our stories are free to readers because we believe journalism is a public service that provides critical information to audiences, no matter their ability to pay.

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Students of History

MAY 13, 2025

Students of History is proud to announce Max Nguyen, a graduating senior from Rancho Alamitos High School in Anaheim, California, as the recipient of the 2025 Students of History Scholarship. This annual award honors a student who demonstrates a deep passion for history and a commitment to using their understanding of the past to create a better future.

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Political Science Now

MAY 16, 2025

Why Seeing Is Not Believing and Why Believing Is Seeing: On the Politics of Sight By Pablo P. Castell, Queens University. Social movements often appeal to the politics of sight, meaning that if people knew about a given injustice, political transformation would follow. Jasmine English and Bernardo Zacka articulate two central premises of the politics of sight: (1) exposing morally repugnant practices will make us see them, (2) seeing such practices will stop us from acquiescing to them.

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Anthropology.net

MAY 13, 2025

“Obsidian was more than a tool—it was a symbol of power, a medium of ritual, and a cornerstone of commerce.” A City Built on Stone In the heart of ancient Tenochtitlan, the Mexica capital, obsidian held a role far beyond that of a cutting tool. Recent compositional analysis of 788 obsidian artifacts from the Templo Mayor —the empire’s central ceremonial temple—reveals a complex web of trade and ritual that sustained Mexica society.

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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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Anthroholic

MAY 16, 2025

Fredrik Barth was not interested in what cultures are-he was interested in what they do. A bold thinker and rigorous fieldworker, Barth revolutionized anthropology by challenging static, essentialist views of culture and ethnicity.

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Sapiens

MAY 13, 2025

An anthropologist investigates the impacts of increasing Chinese migration to and investment in Africa. In the last two decades, an unprecedented wave of Chinese investment and migration to Africa has transformed many economies on the continent. But this has also provoked a storm of controversy, as some criticize the situation as exploitative neocolonialism.

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Anthropology.net

MAY 11, 2025

A Subtle Scourge in the Bones In the hills of northern Oman, beneath the collapsed stones of a 4,000-year-old tomb, archaeologists uncovered 1 something that hadn’t been seen before in this part of the world: the unmistakable signs of leprosy. It wasn’t a complete skeleton that told the story. It was fragments—broken jaws, scattered teeth, a porous nasal cavity eroded by years of silent bacterial assault.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 11, 2025

President Trumps sweeping dictate to end what he terms unlawful DEI practices is meeting fierce resistance. The National Education Association, the American Federation of Teachers and the ACLU all filed suit in opposition. And last month, three federal judges two appointed by Trump ruled against the administration. One of the justices noted that the government cannot proclaim entire categories of classroom content discriminatory to side-step the bounds of its statutory authority.

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Political Science Now

MAY 13, 2025

Join our expert panelists for a discussion on teaching American Politics in times of political uncertainty and crisis. Thursday, June 5, 2025 |1:00 p.m. Eastern | Register Here Responding to the current political environment in the United States, the panelists will share how they are rethinking the Introduction to American Politics class. Panelists will address overarching questions about structuring the course, incorporating insights from Comparative Politics, and teaching particular topics.

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History Havoc

MAY 13, 2025

One of my goals since starting my Ph.D. program was to get published. I also wanted to give a presentation at a conference somewhere, and both are happening this summer. In June I will attend my first SABR Convention in Dallas. I have been a long time member, and if you know anything about me personally I love baseball and its history. If you don’t know, SABR is the Society for American Baseball Research.

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Moler's Musing

MAY 11, 2025

In 2022, I was named the 2023 District 5 Ohio Teacher of the Year. On paper, it sounds like a dream. A high honor. A moment youd frame. The process was deep and demanding. I had to write five essays about my teaching philosophy, collect samples of student work and lesson plans, and submit three letters of recommendation, one of which came from a student.

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