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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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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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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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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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 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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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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High School Research Public School Education 82

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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Tutoring K-12 Learning Science Research 81

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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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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ED Surge

JUNE 13, 2025

No generation is a monolith. That should go without saying. But over the past year, there’s been a growing narrative in business and media circles that Gen Z, a cohort born between 1997 and 2012, is starting to split in two. One half is described as entrepreneurial, image-conscious and highly motivated. The other is labeled cautious, emotionally overwhelmed or disengaged from traditional career ambition.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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History 94

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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Economics 95

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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Archiving Anthropology Humanities History 60

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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Teaching 52

ED Surge

JUNE 13, 2025

When artificial intelligence tools like ChatGPT were first introduced for public use in 2022, Gillian Hayes, vice provost for academic personnel at the University of California, Irvine, remembers how people were setting up rules around AI without a good understanding of what it truly was or how it would be used. The moment felt akin to the industrial or agricultural revolutions, Hayes says.

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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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History 57

Anthropology.net

JUNE 8, 2025

When the National Institutes of Health launched the All of Us Research Program , the idea was simple: collect DNA and health data from over a million Americans to better understand how genetic variation influences health. But a newly published analysis of over 230,000 of these genomes has laid bare just how much complexity lies behind the terms "race" and "ethnicity"—and how that complexity can shape everything from disease risk to the ethics of medical research.

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Living Geography

JUNE 13, 2025

The latest batch of sessions organised by Richard Allaway and Matt Podbury have now been made available on their website. There will be six online workshops between the end of August 2025 and May 2026, which can be booked individually or as an ‘any three’, ‘any four’ or ‘all six’ bundle. Each workshop consists of two 90-minute sessions and then the opportunity to have a 30-minute one-on-one meeting with either Richard or Matt to focus on your specific topic of interest and questions.

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Geography 52

ED Surge

JUNE 11, 2025

Students light up when they create something meaningful, and every educator has seen that spark. Self-expression fuels learning, and creativity lies at the heart of the human experience. As AI rapidly reshapes software development, computer science (CS) education must move beyond syntax drills and algorithmic repetition. Coding alone isn’t enough; students must also learn to think systemically, design creatively and build with intention.

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Professional Development Critical Thinking Middle School Humanities 58

Marginal Revolution

JUNE 8, 2025

A new study has found that a thickly forested sliver of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula is the most complete ancient agricultural location in the eastern United States. The Sixty Islands archaeological site is recognized as the ancestral home of the Menominee Nation. Known to the members of the tribe as Anaem Omot (Dog’s Belly), the area is a destination of pilgrimage, where remains of the settlement date to as far back as 8,000 B.C.

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Archaeology History 51

Anthropology.net

JUNE 11, 2025

In the humid wetlands of the Lower Yangtze, a quiet transition was underway some 8,000 years ago. Before formal pens, before selective breeding, before the clear skeletal signs of domestication, wild boars were already forging an uneasy alliance with humans. And the clues to this early intimacy are not in bones or buildings, but in the fossilized plaque on ancient pig teeth.

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Archiving Archaeology Humanities Research 63

Social Studies Success

JUNE 10, 2025

Year-Long Preparation For Texas teachers, preparing students for the U.S. History STAAR exam means more than covering content—it means teaching students to analyze, evaluate, and apply their knowledge in rigorous, STAAR-formatted tasks. That is why I combined forces with lead4ward to create socialstudies+. When used with fidelity, socialstudies+ offers a powerhouse combination of instructional support, content mastery, and STAAR readiness.

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ED Surge

JUNE 9, 2025

There was a moment in the mid-2010s when Montessori was inescapable. The century-old education philosophy, which prioritizes independence from a young age, had turned into a lifestyle brand. Blocks and other wooden activity sets were remarketed as “Montessori toys.” Parents flocked toward outdoor learning, which often involved livestock on a farm, sometimes dubbed “Montessori farms.

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Marginal Revolution

JUNE 11, 2025

Axios : Two grandsons of Walmart founder Sam Walton plan to launch a private university focused on science and tech, located on the company’s old HQ campus near downtown Bentonville, Arkansas. … The future university plans to offer innovative, flexible pathways to jobs in automation, logistics, biotech and computing — fields crucial to Northwest Arkansas’ future.

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Tutoring Economics Education 81

Anthropology.net

JUNE 11, 2025

The Wheel Was Not Born in a Day The wheel looms large in the popular imagination as a spark of genius—perhaps the defining artifact of early human ingenuity. But how, exactly, does such a revolutionary device come into being? A new study 1 , led by aerospace engineers and historians, turns this question into a forensic design problem. Instead of speculating in broad strokes, researchers Lee Alacoque, Richard Bulliet, and Kai James used computational simulations to reconstruct the physical

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Digital Promise

JUNE 12, 2025

The post Guest Post: Responsible by Design: How We’re Building an Evidence-Based AI Assistant to Support Special Educators appeared first on Digital Promise.

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The Conversation - Politics + Society

JUNE 11, 2025

The debate over banning smartphones in schools rages as more students are bringing phones to schools. Thomas Barwick/DigitalVision via Getty Images In Florida, a bill that bans cellphone use in elementary and middle schools, from bell to bell, recently sailed through the state Legislature. Gov. Ron DeSantis signed it into law on May 30, 2025. The same bill calls for high schools in six Florida districts to adopt the ban during the upcoming school year and produce a report on its effectiveness by

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Marginal Revolution

JUNE 8, 2025

Convent San Esteban.  It is still there, you can just walk right in, though not between 2 and 4, when the guards have off.  Arguably the Salamancans were the first mature economists, and the first decent monetary theorists, as well as being critically important for the foundations of international law, natural rights, and anti-slavery arguments.  It is also difficult to find issues where they were truly bad.

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History 52

ED Surge

JUNE 12, 2025

With declining college enrollment, institutions are rethinking the traditional four-year model. Dual enrollment has emerged as a significant growth area, with high schools increasingly prioritizing these programs and colleges finding that dual enrollment students now comprise a significant portion of their student body. This trend has developed alongside the shift toward virtual and asynchronous course delivery, creating new educational pathways.

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Digital Promise

JUNE 11, 2025

More than 100 community leaders gather to explore innovative solutions for strengthening education-to-workforce pathways

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