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APRIL 16, 2025

For at least 10,000 years, humans have worked the land to feed families, build communities, and form civilizations. Wealth Inequality in Ancient Societies: Cross-cultural Patterns and Implications for the Present." Human Nature , 29(3), 203–219. Nature , 551(7682), 619–622. link] Smith, M. E., & Chirikure, S.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 28, 2023

I entered college in 1989 with an interest in human rights advocacy, planning to be a lawyer. Still, my reaction to the current dialogue about humanities is this: The best way to save the English major is to abandon it. The English major (like many other majors in the humanities and sciences), goes back much further than that.

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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

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. Sign up for our Higher Education newsletter.

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MAY 11, 2023

Email Address Choose from our newsletters Weekly Update Future of Learning Higher Education Early Childhood Proof Points Leave this field empty if you’re human: Anna Maria Jack says she isn’t flustered when students bring up fringe science denial theories during her 10th grade Earth science class in the Bronx.

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Living Geography

NOVEMBER 17, 2024

GeoCapabilities began in 2012 with a pilot project led by the American Association of Geographers. 135-6 Richard also discusses the need to de/colonise curricula, and that the Humanities have a legacy of ignoring discussions about what was taught and how it was framed. All of these are referenced in the book.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

Many argue that our culture discourages girls from excelling at math. Leave this field empty if you're human: In a second analysis of 35 years of national survey data, the researchers found a strong correlation between a young woman’s beliefs about women’s roles and her future daughters’ subsequent math scores.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 2, 2018

In 2012, a Times-Picayune reporter, Andrea Chen, dubbed Louisiana the “ world’s prison capital ” because of its uncommonly high incarceration rates. A majority of Louisiana inmates are housed in for-profit facilities,” noted Chen, “which must be supplied with a constant influx of human beings or a $182 million industry will go bankrupt.”.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

BOSTON — When the Boston Public Schools opened the Margarita Muñiz Academy in 2012, it was a first-of-its kind dual-language high school meant to address issues faced by the city’s growing Hispanic population. The exception is in the two humanities classes students take every day, one in each language.

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Anthropology News

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

I’ll start with a confession: I am not a cultural anthropologist. I study human skeletal remains of the past, how burial contexts were constructed, and what they revealed about communities. Studying human bodies provides a deep historical perspective on social dynamics whose echoes remain with us today. I received my Ph.D.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 29, 2017

It’s a cultural rebuild,” said Randy Emery, a welding instructor at the College of the Sequoias in California’s Central Valley. It says tradespeople also are older than workers in other fields — more than half were over 45 in 2012, the last period for which the subject was studied — meaning looming retirements could result in big shortages.

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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 23, 2018

In contrast, Onalaska’s population rose from 731 residents in 2012 to 772 residents in 2016, according to U.S. But that changed in in 2012, when the Onalaska Alliance purchased the 72-acre property. We have worked hard to create an inviting and positive culture in our community,” Murphy said. Census data. over that period. “I

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 6, 2016

From 1987 to 2012, it doubled, far outpacing the growth in the numbers of students and faculty. That realization triggered the system-wide centralization of information technology, human resources, purchasing and payroll — more than doubling the size of the central office in the process, according to the federal figures, but also saving $5.6

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 8, 2016

In Boston Public Schools, Superintendent Tommy Chang has placed an emphasis on culturally and linguistically inclusive schools. The same is true of the Muñiz Academy, which opened in 2012 as the city’s first such high school. The rest only speak English or are already bilingual. Photo: Tara García Mathewson.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 4, 2016

Careful not to offend the charter school community, which upholds autonomy as sacred, King added, “But I believe the goal for all schools should be to create a school culture that motivates student to want to do the best.”. The racial disparities in school discipline reflect the cultural appetite to punish black children.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 16, 2019

The data from the earlier survey is available in a detailed 2012 report by the U.S. There is no society, there is no human culture, without the arts.”. If we dug up a buried culture, we’d still find their art. There is no society, there is no human culture, without the arts.”. Department of Education.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 23, 2016

In 2012, Estonia’s 15-year-olds ranked 11 th in math and reading and sixth in science out of the 65 countries that participated in an international test that compares educational systems from around the world, called the Programme for International Student Assessment, or PISA. In fact, many U.S. It has worked.”. Nearly 80 percent of U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 27, 2016

It’s an investment, streamlining the costs of hiring and turnover in a district while mitigating the negative impact that chronic turnover has on a school culture and the education of a child. We would argue that we can’t afford not to train teachers this way.”. The residency model is a better way.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 3, 2017

The Muñiz Academy opened in 2012 as one of Massachusetts’ first “innovation schools,” free from many district policies and granted flexibility with its curriculum, budget, school schedule and annual calendar, among other things. Last year, students studied the Latino influence in U.S. Music saved my life.”.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

Many had seen their schooling interrupted by the chaos back home; some had experienced gang violence or human trafficking. Denying undocumented students the right to participate in activities contradicts everything we know about the crucial task of building a school culture where every student feels known and valued.”.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 6, 2016

Elizabeth Pérez, a new teacher joining PUC Schools through the Alumni Teach Project, and her mentor, humanities teacher Joe Garza, during a training session in July. Photo: Jamie Martines. Last year, Mastery started a residency program to train and mentor new teachers as they pursue a master’s degree with Relay Graduate School of Education.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 4, 2019

Leave this field empty if you're human: But after years working seasonal jobs sorting equipment at the local Ford plant and dealing blackjack at nearby casinos, Perez wanted to rise to a management position — and she couldn’t without a bachelor’s degree. It closed its child care center in 2012, citing low demand. Weekly Update.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

Leave this field empty if you're human: Not so in Galt. When the district won federal Race to the Top funding in 2012, Schauer expanded the strengths program. Sign up for the Future of Learning newsletter. Choose as many newsletters as you like. Weekly Update. Future of Learning. Higher Education. Mississippi Learning.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 8, 2020

Healthcare was my general interest, so I returned to Onondaga to get my associate degree in human services in 2010, followed by my L.P.N. Taking core courses — such as philosophy, religion and other humanities courses — has given me a much richer appreciation for other cultures, which will certainly help me in my career.

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Anthropology News

JANUARY 24, 2024

Throughout the Cold War, campaigns of discreditation against capitalist alternatives flourished in the United States, and identity-based and human-rights-focused campaigns became more prominent. These efforts have been built without the warmth of tinto, the stick of hot plastic chairs, or the pulse of broader human presence.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

Since 2012, when the government exhorted more écoles maternelles to open their doors to 2-year-olds, the rate of participation in France’s “priority education networks”—networks of schools that serve heavily low-income, immigrant communities that are targeted for extra social support—has steadily risen. Sign up for our newsletter.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 6, 2017

It’s all part of an awareness campaign called “15 to Finish,” pioneered at the University of Hawaii in 2012, that has taken hold in dozens of states. Archaeology of Human Origins” may sound interesting, but if you wait too long to focus on your economics major, you may not get in all the requirements you need. NO SOCIAL LIFE.

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Anthropology.net

JUNE 23, 2024

Scholars have long debated the cultural significance of these statues and the methods used by a Stone Age society to transport them, with some weighing as much as 92 tons. This case study provides valuable lessons on sustainable living and the resilience of human communities. Arian Zwegers/CC BY 2.0 1 Davis, D. DiNapoli, R.

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NOVEMBER 28, 2022

He is a noted scholar of visual culture in U.S. He is currently working on a study of Civil War visual culture for which he received a Guggenheim Fellowship. Bogart is professor emeritus of art history and visual culture at Stony Brook University. Halls Professor of the History of Art (emerita) at Indiana University.

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All Things Pedagogical

JULY 10, 2024

As Sara Ahmed (2012) notes in On Being Included , those who do diversity, equity and inclusion work become the embodiment of the work the institutions want done. We become a title, “stuck in institutions by being stuck to a category” (Ahmed, 2012, 4). MAI: Feminism & Visual Culture , (6). References “activism.(n).”

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 29, 2016

Department of Health and Human Services, at current funding levels for the Child Care and Development Block Grant, only one out of 10 eligible children will get assistance. More centers are becoming like Beary Cherry Tree thanks to a 2012 law that raised standards in early care. But, according to the U.S.

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Anthropology.net

NOVEMBER 29, 2024

Early Neolithic farmers, known for their distinct Linear Pottery Culture (Linearbandkeramik, or LBK), expanded rapidly across the region. A groundbreaking study, published in Nature Human Behaviour 1 , offers unprecedented genetic evidence that these communities lived without clear social stratification.

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Anthropology.net

APRIL 17, 2025

In the shadows of the Beni-Snassen Mountains, tucked into a cave called Taforalt, archaeologists have been piecing together an unexpected story about the rituals of late Pleistocene humans. Dozens of human skeletons have been found there, some seated, some accompanied by grave goods—and, in certain cases, pieces of great bustards.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Later on, Ta opened an email from their school that mentioned the Kentucky Student Voice Team, a state-level group that was started in 2012 to bring students into the advocacy process. From there, now a freshman in high school, Ta joined the team as a student journalist, where they tried to put a “human touch” on complex issues.

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Sapiens

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Such roles are prevalent in areas such as finance, admin, law, marketing, and human resources. B t jobs, Graeber argues, have bloomed in professions like finance (financial services); law (corporate law); administration (academic and health administration); and marketing, public relations, and human resources.

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Anthropology for Beginners

AUGUST 17, 2023

It approaches the comparative study of human experience, behavior, facts, and artifacts from a dual sociocultural and psychological most often psychodynamic perspective.

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