The Hechinger Report
MARCH 15, 2025
Emma Bittner considered getting a masters degree in public health at a nearby university, but the in-person program cost tens of thousands of dollars more than she had hoped to spend. So she checked out masters degrees she could pursue remotely, on her laptop, which she was sure would be much cheaper. The price for the same degree, online, was just as much.
ED Surge
MARCH 17, 2025
Several years ago, Oklahoma City Public Schools shuttered more than a dozen of its school buildings. It was part of a realignment process in the district to right-size student populations within schools some were overcrowded, others were underenrolled and to make the school experience better and more consistent for students across the city. But what to do with all of those empty buildings?
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Anthropology.net
MARCH 15, 2025
The human skeleton has long been a resource for science, offering insights into disease, migration, and evolution. But behind every collection of bones stored in laboratories and museums lies a deeper story—one of power, consent, and ethics. A recent paper in the American Journal of Biological Anthropology urges anthropologists and anatomists to confront the legacy of human skeletal collections and calls for a new ethical framework that prioritizes transparency, community collaboration, an
Life and Landscapes
MARCH 17, 2025
Brigadier General Ronald R. Van Stockum, U. S. Marine Corps (Retired) Brigadier General Ronald R. Van Stockum died peacefully in his sleep on April 24, 2022, in Shelby County, Kentucky. He was born in Cambridgeshire, England on July 8, 1916. His father, Sergeant Reginald Bareham, had died a week earlier in the great Battle of the Somme, July 1, 1916, where 19,240 British soldiers had been killed in a single day.
Living Geography
MARCH 15, 2025
British Antarctic Survey have released a brand new map showing the continent without ice, called Bedmap3. Known as Bedmap3, it incorporates more than six decades of survey data acquired by planes, satellites, ships and even dog-drawn sleds. The results are published this week (12 March) in the journal Scientific Data. The map gives us a clear view of the white continent as if its 27 million cubic km of ice have been removed, revealing the hidden locations of the tallest mountains and the deepest
ED Surge
MARCH 17, 2025
The future isnt just approaching its moving fast. As industries evolve and workforce demands shift, schools and districts have a critical role in ensuring students are prepared for whats ahead. Traditional education models, which focus on knowledge retention alone, arent enough. Students need digital fluency and adaptability to succeed in an era of constant technological change.
Anthropology.net
MARCH 17, 2025
Some 4,000 years ago, the southeastern corner of the Iberian Peninsula was home to one of Europe’s first state-level societies: El Argar. From its fortified hilltop settlements, this Bronze Age power controlled vast territories, imposing its influence over neighboring groups through trade, warfare, and the steady flow of resources like metal, textiles, and ceramics.
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Living Geography
MARCH 16, 2025
If you have a Lottery ticket or Scratchcard, you still have another week of chances to visit a number of locations around the country free of charge (or have some other sort of deal depending on location). Just check the website here. I took the opportunity to go to Anglesey Abbey at the weekend. One of the options is to book onto a free tour of the Royal Geographical Society.
4QM Teaching
MARCH 17, 2025
We Finally Wrote A Curriculum When we first decided to try to spread the Four Question Method beyond our own classrooms, we were very naive. We figured wed go to conferences and give workshops, and teachers would go back home and implement the method. It turned out that we could get invited to conferences and we gave pretty good workshops that teachers liked a lot but very few of them went back home and revised their teaching materials to reflect the Four Question Method.
Anthropology.net
MARCH 17, 2025
More than 2,000 years ago, a young woman was buried in the Turpan Basin of northwest China. She was laid to rest alongside leather boots, gold earrings, and finely crafted ornaments—objects that hint at wealth and status. But one detail stood out among the usual burial goods: her teeth were stained a deep, unnatural red. Multi-angle views of the stained teeth of 07TSM11:B.
Women's History Network
MARCH 16, 2025
This talk on 22 March 2025 at Chichester Cinema celebrates Womens History month by examining films enduring fascination with Tudor women, from The Execution of Mary Stewart (1895) to Firebrand (2023). Audiences have continually relished the politics, tragedy and intrigue of lavishly costumed, queens and princesses disrupting and destabilising the Tudor court.
Living Geography
MARCH 16, 2025
What's the most creative idea you've ever had while teaching geography? If you feel able to share it (with full credit given) for a presentation I'm putting together for an event at UCL in July please get in touch. There's a slide from my presentation below. It will feature some of my more creative ideas of the many I've had, and shared in numerous books. they date back to the early 2000s when the world was a different place and before people used TES Resources and Twinkl.
The Hechinger Report
MARCH 16, 2025
This spring, the number of high school graduates in the United States is expected to hit its peak. Starting in the fall, enrollment will likely enter a period of decline that could last a decade or more. This looming demographic cliff has been on the minds of education leaders for nearly two decades, dating back to the start of the Great Recession. A raft of college closures over the past five years, exacerbated by the pandemic, has for many observers been the canary in the coal mine.
Education Week - Social Studies
MARCH 17, 2025
The standards intimate that the 2020 presidential election results might not be trustworthy.
Sapiens
MARCH 17, 2025
In two erasure poems, a poet-anthropologist imagines alternative futures using text from the 1846 Treaty of Amritsar, through which the British sold Kashmir to a despotic Dogra ruler. The poems are from a six-part series titled Song of the First Spring. Erasure I and Erasure VI are part of the collection Poets Resist, Refuse, and Find a Way Through.
Living Geography
MARCH 16, 2025
A powerful and simple representation of the impact of diversity loss on people. IFAD is the International Fund for Agricultural Development.
Political Science Now
MARCH 17, 2025
Legalizing Abortion in the Southern Cone By Cora Fernndez Anderson , Mount Holyoke College The Southern Cone has been at the forefront of the fight for abortion rights in Latin America. Due to the legacies of Hispanic legal traditions and the overwhelming political influence of the Catholic Church, the region historically has been known for its restrictive policies on abortion and reproductive rights more broadly. 1 However, in the past 15 years, Southern Cone countries began to challenge those
A Principal's Reflections
MARCH 16, 2025
" Morale isn't just a feeling; it's the engine of collective effort. A high-spirited team can achieve the improbable, while a disheartened one struggles with the routine." The struggle is real, my friends, and when it comes to morale, it is up to us to work to ensure this remains positive. Recently, on my podcast Unpacking the Backpack , I discussed this topic in detail after revisiting a blog post I wrote in 2022.
Cult of Pedagogy
MARCH 16, 2025
Listen to this post as a podcast: Sponsored by Boclips Classroom and EVERFI “The greatest gift you can give another is the purity of your attention.” I want to use this quote, which has been attributed both to Richard Moss and Sir John Templeton, as a starting point for this post. Attention has become one of our scarcest resources, and when I think about all of the relationships we have in our lives from the person we buy our coffee from, to our neighbors and coworkers, to the peopl
Living Geography
MARCH 15, 2025
Another Zoopla-style site offering which shows locational data and may be useful for providing secondary data for NEA style projects.
Moler's Musing
MARCH 16, 2025
A few weeks ago, my family spent several days completing a 1,000-piece puzzle. It was slow at firstwe sorted pieces, built the edges, and struggled through tricky sections. Recently, we decided to do the same puzzle again, and this time, it only took a few hours. Even though we didnt remember exactly where each piece went, we recognized patterns, familiar colors, and key sections, making the process much faster.
The Hechinger Report
MARCH 17, 2025
NORMAN, Okla. Sometimes, Jakob Topper teaches his Christian faith to his six-year-old daughter using childrens Bible stories illustrated with teddy bears. Other days, he might use her kid-friendly Bible featuring Precious Moments figures as characters. One thing he knows for sure: The King James version is not on the reading list, given some of its adult themes of sexual assault and incest.
Moler's Musing
MARCH 16, 2025
I wonder if I can do this another 20 years. Middle. School. Social. Studies. Teacher. My goodness. I often wonder if I’m doing things in the best way… Am I challenging students enough? Am I meeting everyone’s needs? Do my policies fall in line with school-wide policies? Is it a bad practice that I accept work anytime without a late penalty?
Moler's Musing
MARCH 15, 2025
Sometimes, I get so caught up in trying to create the best learning experience possible that I hit a wall. My brain just shuts down, or I avoid the process altogether because the thought of planning one more lesson feels like too much. But today, I had a thought. I often turn on CBS Sunday Morning or scroll through random YouTube videos, not because I have to, but because I genuinely enjoy learning.
The Hechinger Report
MARCH 16, 2025
This week I dug into how the Trump administrations anti-climate blitz is hampering schools and colleges ability to green their operations, plus a new report on the California wildfires impact on students. Thank you for reading, and reply to this email to be in touch. Caroline Preston LeeAnn Kittle helps oversee the Denver public school districts work to reduce carbon emissions by 90 percent by 2050.
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