Cult of Pedagogy

JUNE 8, 2025

Listen to the interview with Laurie Rabinowitz and Amy Tondreau ( transcript ) Sponsored by Alpaca and The School Me Podcast 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? Over the past few decades, significant strides have been made in the field of special education to make every classroom a place where students, regardl

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ED Surge

JUNE 10, 2025

Kids aren’t as sneaky as they think they are. They do try, as Holly Distefano has seen in her middle school English language arts classes. When she poses a question to her seventh graders over her school’s learning platform and watches the live responses roll in, there are times when too many are suspiciously similar. That’s when she knows students are using an artificial intelligence tool to write an answer.

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Passion for Social Studies

JUNE 13, 2025

Part II of the AP Government Video Resource Series This post is a follow-up to my April post on using AP Government videos for Enhancing Review. If you haven’t read it yet, click here to check it out. It includes a full list of short, engaging videos that help break down key AP US Government concepts. But collecting great video links is only half the battle.

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Anthropology for Beginners

JUNE 1, 2025

The Role of the Asiatic Society in Developing Indian Anthropology Introduction The Asiatic Society, established in 1784 in Kolkata by Sir William Jones, stands as one of the oldest and most influential institutions in the development of Indian anthropology. Founded during the colonial period, the Asiatic Society was envisioned as a center for the systematic study of Indias culture, history, languages, and peoples, marking the beginning of organized scholarly inquiry into the Indian subcontinent.

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Anthropology.net

JUNE 11, 2025

Archaeology has always been a discipline of fragments. Potsherds, partial skeletons, stratified soils. But perhaps its most elusive fragments lie in the records themselves—decades, even centuries of illustrations, field notes, and reports scattered across publications and languages. Now, a new AI-assisted tool is poised to reassemble those pieces.

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Ben Newmark

JUNE 2, 2025

A few years ago, in the Golden Era of Edu-Twitter, Berny Andrews and I suggested the Department of Education needed a team of philosophers. We were only half joking. Very often the success or failure of educational strategy and policy is not in technical formulation or implementation but in purpose, and purpose is always about belief and philosophy.

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Digital Promise

JUNE 3, 2025

The post 3 Strategies for Creating Collaborative Experiences that Engage Students appeared first on Digital Promise.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 9, 2025

Misinformation is rampant and increasingly dangerous. Americans are losing trust in journalism and turning away from legacy media. Local newspapers are closing at an alarming rate, while national news organizations are capitulating to government pressure. There is a great way to address these challenges: School newspapers. Working on a student news publication teaches critical thinking, writing, research, leadership and teamwork — skills valued by colleges and employers.

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Sapiens

JUNE 4, 2025

An anthropologist explores how a phone call home may seem simple but carries layers of meaning for migrating nurses and their families in India. SOON AFTER I ARRIVED in Kerala in 2014, I met Alice, a widow living alone. (All names in this story are pseudonyms to protect peoples privacy.) Her daughter, a nurse, lived in Australia, and her son, who had a different profession, was in Dubai.

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Anthropology.net

JUNE 6, 2025

There are few things as quintessentially human as the act of teaching. Whether around a campfire, in a workshop, or beside a burial cairn, transmitting knowledge has been central to how societies grow, persist, and adapt. A recent study by Ivan Colagè and Francesco d’Errico takes a sweeping look at this process, offering what may be the most comprehensive timeline yet of cultural transmission in the human lineage.

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Marginal Revolution

JUNE 7, 2025

In my post Affordable Housing is Almost Pointless , I highlighted how point systems for awarding tax credits prioritize DEI, environmental features, energy efficiency, and other secondary goals far more than low cost. A near-comic example comes from D.C., where so-called affordable housing units now cost between $800,000 and $1.3 million dollars each !

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Digital Promise

JUNE 4, 2025

The post Empowering Students Through Tech: How Our Student Tech Teams are Leading In-House Repairs appeared first on Digital Promise.

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ED Surge

JUNE 3, 2025

Social media platforms like Instagram, X and TikTok have become landscapes for learning and increasing awareness of topics like mental health. But for children who are learning how to navigate virtual spaces, the pitfalls are many and hidden. Educators and researchers are becoming increasingly worried how much kids are absorbing the digital information they find online about mental health, which kids are unlikely to fully grasp even if the information is trustworthy.

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Anthropology News

JUNE 1, 2025

How Pakistans Perpetual State of Emergency is Challenged by Displaced Pashtun Women I used to be a loud childsinging, dancing, making noise wherever I went. But after the operation, everything changed. Sonias childhood home was never silent, but her voice disappeared into the chaos. When 30 distant relatives arrived from Waziristan, Pakistan, fleeing the violence of military operations, her familys small two-bedroom home in Peshawar became unbearably full.

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Sapiens

JUNE 11, 2025

An archaeologist who studies past farming practices in the north coast of Peru argues these offer models for navigating current climate crises. ✽ SEEING THE NORTH COAST of Peru for the first time, you would be hard-pressed to believe it’s one of the driest deserts in the world. Parts of the region receive less than an inch of rain in an entire year.

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The Conversation - Politics + Society

JUNE 9, 2025

While many Americans do not trust national news, they still say they have faith in local news. iStock/Getty Images Plus Many Americans say they have lost trust in national news – but most still believe they can rely on the accuracy of local news. In 2023, trust in national newspapers, TV and radio reached historic lows. Just 32% of Americans said they have a “great deal” or “fair amount” of trust in these news sources.

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Marginal Revolution

JUNE 9, 2025

I understand being concerned about illegal immigration. I definitely understand being concerned about murder, rape, and robbery. What I don’t understand is being more concerned about the former than the latter. Yet that’s exactly how the federal government allocates resources. The federal government spends far more on immigration enforcement than on preventing violent crime, terrorism, tax fraud or indeed all of these combined.

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Digital Promise

JUNE 10, 2025

Our Work Reports Blog About Popular Searches Research Digital Equity Micro-credentials Inclusive Innovation Networks & Programs League of Innovative Schools Verizon Innovative Learning Schools Our Work Reports Blog About Jobs U-GAIN Reading: Supporting a Tech-Enabled Vision for the Science of Reading June 10, 2025 | By Yenda Prado and Jeremy Roschelle Key Ideas This is the second post of a three-part series highlighting the efforts of Digital Promise’s U-GAIN Reading R&D Center (U-GAIN R

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ED Surge

JUNE 9, 2025

Picture this: Tomorrow’s graduates walk into workplaces where AI tools are as common as email — diagnosing patient symptoms, analyzing market trends, optimizing supply chains or designing new infrastructure. From healthcare to marketing to engineering, nearly every field is being transformed. Are our schools preparing them for this new reality? And do we have an effective method of assessing such readiness?

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Anthropology News

JUNE 9, 2025

Bach’s Minuet cuts through the cacophony of the respiratory ward. A nurse emerges from the station, moving purposefully toward a patient’s room. This is just one moment in the sonic landscape of a hospital in suburban Osaka, Japan—a world where coughs, beeping monitors, footsteps, and countless other sounds create a complex auditory environment that medical staff must learn to navigate and interpret.

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Anthropology.net

JUNE 9, 2025

For decades, the story of Neanderthal migration into Asia has remained patchy—more shadow than shape. Fossil finds in Siberia and genomic data hinted at a major dispersal from Western to Eastern Eurasia sometime between 120,000 and 60,000 years ago. But how Neanderthals got there, what routes they took, and whether their migration was slow or swift have remained open questions.

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Women's History Network

JUNE 9, 2025

We are pleased to announce the annual WHN book prize, which awards £500 for an author’s first single-authored monograph in women’s or gender history. Entries close on 15 August 2025 for books published from 1 Jan 2023 to 31 December 2024. 2023 and 2024 entries will be considered separately.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 11, 2025

It was 2 degrees below zero and almost midnight when I arrived at my hotel in Scottsbluff, Nebraska, earlier this year after a treacherous drive on what seemed to be a solid sheet of ice from the closest airport. As I checked in at the front desk, the young woman working that night asked what had brought me to town. I told her I was visiting Scottsbluff Public Schools for an article about inclusion, the practice of teaching children with and without disabilities in the same classroom.

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Digital Promise

JUNE 13, 2025

Our Work Reports Blog About Popular Searches Research Digital Equity Micro-credentials Inclusive Innovation Networks & Programs League of Innovative Schools Verizon Innovative Learning Schools Our Work Reports Blog About Jobs Concepts to Classroom Practices: New Resources to Support Collaborative Learning June 13, 2025 | By Judi Fusco and Linette Victor Key Ideas The Mapping, Clarifying, and Communicating Key Ideas about Collaborative Learning team is thrilled to announce a series of resourc

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ED Surge

JUNE 2, 2025

The number of home-based child care programs is seeing a spike for the first time in five years but experts remain concerned that with a rising child care crisis, there are still not enough programs to meet demand. According to a report from Child Care Aware of America, the number of licensed home-based child care options increased by nearly 5 percent from 2023 to 2024.

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Anthropology News

JUNE 1, 2025

Ozali? The Congolese radio operator shouts into her two-way radios microphone. She calls out in Lingala are you there? before lifting her finger off the transmitter to listen for a response, but the speaker emits only static. We both crane our necks as noise obscures signal on the frequency, interrupting her short conversation with a distant villager.

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Anthropology.net

JUNE 3, 2025

The Case for Smoke Before Supper For decades, archaeologists have debated the moment our ancestors learned to tame fire—and more importantly, why they did so. Cooking, the story often goes, sparked the evolution of Homo erectus by softening food, improving digestion, and freeing energy for bigger brains. But a new hypothesis is challenging that assumption with a cooler, smokier narrative: fire may have been kindled not for cooking, but for keeping meat safe.

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Marginal Revolution

JUNE 10, 2025

When I post about lifting the ban on supersonic flight , smart commenters show up with charts: optimal fuel burn is at Mach 0.78–0.84, they say, or no one wants to pay thousands to save a few hours. Maybe. But my reply is always the same: Bottled water! In 2024, Americans spent $47 billion a year on H₂O that they could get for nearly free. That still boggles my mind—but bottled water has passed the market test.

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Studies Weekly

JUNE 2, 2025

Ways to Bring the Science of Reading to Life in Your Classroom Jun 02, 2025 By Debbie Bagley NEWSLETTER If you’ve been in any kind of education circle, you’ve probably heard of the Science of Reading. It’s definitely a hot topic, but it can also cause some confusion. The Science of Reading isn’t a specific curriculum or one-size-fits-all package.

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Digital Promise

JUNE 5, 2025

Our Work Reports Blog About Popular Searches Research Digital Equity Micro-credentials Inclusive Innovation Networks & Programs League of Innovative Schools Verizon Innovative Learning Schools Our Work Reports Blog About Jobs Celebrating the 2025 YouthMADE Festival Community Award Recipients June 5, 2025 | By Elyse Gainor Key Ideas The YouthMADE Festival is a global celebration of youth creativity and innovation from May 5-18.

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ED Surge

JUNE 4, 2025

As classrooms across the country become more linguistically diverse, educators face a growing challenge: ensuring that every student, regardless of English proficiency, can access learning, participate fully and feel included. Today, emergent bilingual (EB) students, also known as English learners, account for 10.6 percent of U.S. public school students more than 5.3 million nationwide up from 9.4 percent a decade ago.

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Smithsonian Voices | Smithsonian Education

JUNE 11, 2025

After almost a decade of hands-on workshops and ongoing research, educators share the power of digital storytelling as an approach that makes learning more personal, emotional, and impactful

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Anthropology.net

JUNE 7, 2025

In paleoanthropology, the story is often written in bone. But sometimes, it's the fine details in enamel that rewrite what we think we know. A new study published in the Journal of Human Evolution 1 dives deep—microscopically deep—into pitting enamel hypoplasia (PEH) to explore a peculiar and previously underappreciated dental trait called "uniform, circular, and shallow" (UCS) enamel pitting.

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APSA Educate

JUNE 12, 2025

June 5, 2025 |  Responding to the current political environment in the United States, the panelists shared how they are rethinking the Introduction to American Politics class.  Panelists addressed overarching questions about structuring the course, incorporating insights from Comparative Politics, … The post Strategies to Teach American Politics in Turbulent Times appeared first on APSA.

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Marginal Revolution

JUNE 7, 2025

The town has amazing, quite intact walls from the 11th-14th centuries, and also three (!) of the most beautiful churches in Spain. It is only about ninety minutes from Madrid, yet I have not seen North American tourists here. This morning it struck me to see a large number of Avila children reenacting the “lucha entre los christianos y los moros” [fight between the Christians and Moors] with toy swords and costumes, some of them dressed up like Saudis in their full garb.

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Edthena

JUNE 3, 2025

Results from the 2024 National Assessment of Educational Progress show a troubling trend: less than 33 percent of fourth- and eighth-graders tested demonstrated reading proficiency. Even before the pandemic, reading performance was low. Now, those challenges have grown, driving schools to search for targeted interventions and methods to improve literacy instruction.

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ED Surge

JUNE 12, 2025

For Aspire Public Schools in Los Angeles, the turnaround took a couple of years. Coming back from the pandemic, the 11 charter schools serving about 4,400 students saw a steep drop in credentialed teachers sticking with their roles. So relying on a program at Alder Graduate School of Education that pays graduate students to work as teachers-in-training, Aspire built an internal pipeline of new educators.

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