Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Cultural and Geopolitical Implications of the Findings Rock Paintings and Ritual Significance The caves of Peruaçu Valley offer more than archaeological specimens—they also contain rare rock paintings depicting crops, including maize. Maize: Origin, domestication, and its role in the development of culture. Grobman, A.,

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A Principal's Reflections

AUGUST 15, 2012

There were many times during this early period that I questioned the value of the time I was putting in, or the actual impact any of this was having on teaching, learning, school culture, and leadership. On this Leadership Day 2012 I would like to remind all school leaders and educators that it is never too late to jump on the bandwagon.

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Sapiens

JANUARY 7, 2025

When I came to Amsterdam as a graduate student in 2012, I was surprised to find the citys parks teeming with vibrant green feathers, red beaks, and bluish tails. According to medical anthropologist Eileen Moyer , the sculptor Nicolas Dings included this imagery to invoke thoughts of cultural diversity and tolerance toward migrants.

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A Principal's Reflections

OCTOBER 17, 2011

Edscape will once again be held at New Milford High School on Saturday October 13, 2012. (A This is the type of reform that I want to be a part of. This is the type of reform that I want to be a part of. Thankfully, this is my reality. MARK YOUR CALENDARS NOW!!!! A special thank you goes out to Teq.

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A Principal's Reflections

JULY 12, 2012

Throughout the entire 2011-2012 school year, we worked to refine our approach, implementation, and learning outcomes for the program. We began using ClassLink late in the spring, but are extremely excited about the promise that this solution holds to enhance the teaching and learning culture of our school through BYOD.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 25, 2022

Digital books have become extremely popular among students in some regions of Asia, but students who read books on paper still outperformed even in cultures where digital reading is commonplace. Simultaneously, reading performance around the world, which had been slowly improving up until 2012, declined between 2012 and 2018.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

The drop in college graduates who majored in humanities ranges between 16 percent and 29 percent since 2012. Depending upon which fields you include in the humanities bucket, the drop in graduates is somewhere between 16 percent and 29 percent since 2012. The last time colleges produced this few humanities graduates was in 2002.

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Anthropology.net

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

This suggests that different groups across Arabia may have been developing their own localized traditions rather than adhering to a single, uniform technological culture. This underscores a broader theme in human prehistory: adaptation is rarely uniform, and local conditions play a profound role in shaping cultural evolution.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 19, 2024

Once the site of an Indian boarding school, where the federal government attempted to strip children of their tribal identity, the Native American Community Academy now offers the opposite: a public education designed to affirm and draw from each student’s traditional culture and language. The charter school, NACA, opened its doors in 2006.

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A Principal's Reflections

FEBRUARY 6, 2012

The experience that someone called me a Nazi was very hard for me because I felt like people don''t understand me and the German culture. On January 23, 2012, I was fortunate to travel with Colleen and NMHS students to the United Nations in New York City to be a part of the official unveiling of iWitness.

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Teaching Anthropology

MAY 8, 2023

I first trialed active learning strategies while teaching at the University of Oxford, where one of the challenges of teaching anthropology is the diverse background of the students (Bastide, 2012). Anthropology modules appear in programs in three programs I have taught: Archaeology and Anthropology, Human Sciences, and Music. Bierema, L.

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Sapiens

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Graeber also analyzes the “bullshitization” of “real jobs,” such as in education, where new cultures of neoliberal “managerialism” have seen teachers and academics doing increasing amounts of administrative work, taking up more and more of the time that, most agree, would be better spent doing actual teaching or research.

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ED Surge

MAY 2, 2022

It’s like whomever wrote the report jumped in the DeLorean and set the clock to 2012. Business as usual wasn’t working well for a lot of faculty and staff in 2012, and it’s less likely to work in 2022. Faculty and staff want to see that type of willpower and creativity directed at working conditions and cultures.

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Strange Maps

JUNE 24, 2024

Names of particularly heavy storms are taken out of rotation, as are names deemed politically or culturally sensitive.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 10, 2024

Economists estimate that 120,000 elementary, middle and high school teachers lost their jobs between 2008 and 2012. Oregon keeps LIFO in place, but in 2021 carved out an exception for teachers with “ cultural and linguistic expertise.” The last time there were mass teacher layoffs was after the 2008 recession.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

When Trayvon Martin was killed, my students and I watched a 2012 clip of Gerardo Rivera blaming Trayvon for his death simply because he wore a hoodie. They all pushed for a more expansive understanding of Black humanity by embracing their unique identities and expressing their love for Black culture.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

APRIL 17, 2018

A ‘grand challenge’ for building-level leaders might be a leadership issue such as: turning around a low-achieving school; repairing a dysfunctional school staff culture; preparing future-ready graduates; meeting the needs of students with unique needs (including ELL/ESL, special education, gifted, transitory; etc.); Did You Know?

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 9, 2018

Temple has started a master’s degree in sport business, among the 41,446 degree or certificate programs colleges and universities have added since 2012. Students walk on the Temple University campus in Philadelphia. Photo: Matt Rourke/The Associated Press. Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images.

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Anthropology News

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

Inspired by artistic and cultural outputs by communities in Africa, Europe, East Asia, and North America, Odundo’s cascading and gravity-defying vessels found grounding in multiple art forms—with inspiration from a Ladi Kwali stoneware jar to Greek Attic vases.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2016

Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Jean Blackwell Hutson Research and Reference Division, The New York Public Library. Blacks and Hispanics represent ed less that 14 percent of teachers in 2012 at a time when the two populations approached half of all students in public schools. Washington teaches a class in 1916.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 28, 2023

These majors were designed for cultures that the vast majority of today’s students would barely recognize, and many have outworn their usefulness. It means that each student works on projects with peers whose cultural context is different from their own. prior to ever enrolling a student.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 23, 2020

Schools hold the history and culture of a place through yearbooks, trophy cases, and photo archives. Closed in 2012, the building sat vacant until Community Forge purchased Johnston from the school district for $225,000 and reopened it in 2018. We use schools as polling stations and for neighborhood association meetings.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 6, 2024

Martin and a group of Columbine survivors founded The Rebels Project in the aftermath of yet another mass shooting, this time at a movie theater in Aurora in 2012. The organization serves as a network of survivors helping other survivors recover after an incident of mass trauma. “We

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 11, 2019

Red Wing High laid off its full-time college adviser in 2012 amid budget cuts. The school has two full-time school counselors, but in 2012 laid off a staffer whose sole focus was guiding students to college or other post-secondary options. When she got to high school, nobody disabused the ace student of that notion.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 17, 2017

Since its launch in 2012, the city’s high school graduation rate has climbed 15 points, to 64 percent, according to New York State education department figures , the highest rate the city has achieved in more than a decade. It’s about shifting a culture. This is about shifting a culture. It hurts.”.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 29, 2019

They’re known as cultural proficiency seminars and attendance is mandatory. The move toward cultural proficiency, also known as culturally relevant education or culturally responsive teaching, has been gaining momentum in urban school districts throughout the country. Am I just always going to be wrong?”.

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ED Surge

APRIL 13, 2022

As the digital revolution elbowed its way into the nation’s cultural and commercial spheres, virtual versions split off from earlier industrial-era products, often overturning them. million from fall 2012 to fall 2020. Widespread faculty opposition to digital education over the years did not keep remote instruction from taking hold.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

Many argue that our culture discourages girls from excelling at math. This study analyzed families who started having kids between 1994 and 2002 and sent them to public schools between 2002 and 2012. “Boy bias is in the culture. Jackie Mader/The Hechinger Report. “Parenting is really hard.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 30, 2017

“It evens the playing field for those schools [that] use it wisely,” says Los Angeles Unified School District Social Emotional Learning Wellness Director Asia Dove, who has used the program with struggling students since 2012. Inequity is a deeply rooted, socio-cultural issue with many causes. Sign up for our weekly newsletter.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

But when she returned to teach at Union in 2012, the white student population had shrunk to a little more than half of total enrollment. Early on, Peterson noticed the demographic split in her classes: “We’re a very culturally rich district, and yet, my calculus classes were mostly white,” she said. her teacher invited.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

She watched from the backseat in August 2012 as the city gave way to the causeway, miles and miles of concrete bridge she hoped would ferry her to the future she’d been promised. As Williams and her classmates moved away in the summer of 2012, Marcovitz expected they’d all have “a happy ending with college.”

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 19, 2019

The only thing most everyone agrees on is this: The roll out of the 2012 law, LD 1422, was a disaster, plagued by insufficient funding and inadequate guidance from the top. Nearly a decade in, the culture of competence is deeply ingrained in the district; most of today’s high schoolers have never experienced anything different.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

Look for books that honor and celebrate your child’s culture and language but don’t push it. She founded an EL Education pre-K-8 school in Santa Fe (Santa Fe School for the Arts & Sciences), where she served as teacher and principal for 13 years and where Reading Is Magic and Reading Quest began in 2012. Let the child choose.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

Those schools boosted their spending on athletics by 112 percent above inflation from 2003-2004 to 2011-2012 according to the AAUP. Between 2005-2006 and 2011-2012 Division I basketball coaches’ median pay more than doubled, even after inflation is taken into account, the AAUP said, and football coaches’ earnings rose 93 percent.

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Anthropology News

APRIL 30, 2024

Between 2012 and 2015, thousands of P2P platforms emerged, only to crumble within a few years, destroying the life savings of countless middle-class families. In 2012, they started selling wealth management products, the borrowers’ debts bundled by the platform, to the lenders. Meng’s experience was just one among millions.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Cultural and linguistic differences can convince some parents not to question what’s happening at school — a power imbalance that, advocates say, means some children miss out on critical support. About 791,000 English learners participated in special education in 2020, a jump of nearly 30 percent since 2012.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

At Middlesex, a college-preparatory school that attracts students hailing from across the country, there was a large shift in the school’s culture after introducing mindfulness classes. Ben Painter, a Middlesex graduate, took Worthen’s class in 2012 following a concussion. Doug Worthen, mindfulness director at Middlesex School.

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