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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Anthropology.net

APRIL 14, 2025

Drawing on data from over 50,000 ancient homes spread across six continents and 10,000 years of human history, the research team measured the economic disparities of the past through one of its most visible clues: the size of people's houses. “What this study suggests,” said Feinman, “is that we have choices. Bogaard, A.,

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

Out-of-school factors weigh heavily on student success, studies show, and research indicates family engagement can lead to higher grades and test scores, improved attendance and better behavior. Buoyed by promising research, the Flamboyan Foundation, based in Washington, D.C., Photo: Caralee Adams for The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 25, 2022

Researchers at the OECD compared these survey responses with test scores and noticed intriguing relationships between books in the home, a preference for reading on paper and reading achievement. Simultaneously, reading performance around the world, which had been slowly improving up until 2012, declined between 2012 and 2018.

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Anthropology.net

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Here, researchers have unearthed the oldest-known Middle Paleolithic stone tool assemblage in the region, dating back approximately 80,000 years, an era when the Arabian Peninsula was at the crossroads of human expansion. One striking feature of the Jebel Faya assemblage is the presence of a laminar system," the researchers explain.

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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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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). A space for learning: An analysis of research on active learning spaces. References Bastide, H. Three challenges in teaching anthropology.

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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. Alexandra''s research first led me to discover the Otto Wolf diary and our connections with the Jewish Community of Olomouc and the rescuers in Trsice.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 30, 2024

From their responses, and analysis by PISA researchers, several themes stand out, including disconnection from school and teachers, a lack of motivation and a sense that math does not clearly connect to their real lives. They also were more likely to report that they saw fewer potential benefits from studying math.

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Anthropology.net

APRIL 16, 2025

The researchers combed through the physical traces left behind by ancient households—47,000 of them, to be precise—spanning over 1,700 sites across the globe. Further Reading and Related Research Kohler, T. Wealth Inequality in Ancient Societies: Cross-cultural Patterns and Implications for the Present." Bogaard, A.,

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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. There’s no downside.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

Many argue that our culture discourages girls from excelling at math. More below on how the researchers categorized families as “boy-biased” or not.). The researchers began by studying Florida because of its vast data trove and the ability to link years of birth records with school records. Weekly Update.

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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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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. For now, research on existing virtual programs and their impact is scant.

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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

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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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

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

By the time its students graduate to middle school, they are well on their way to mastering both written and spoken English and Spanish, said principal Victoria Hunt, who was part of the group that founded the school in 2012 after more than two decades as a dual language teacher and assistant principal.

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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. million to train additional Alaska school districts and to create a research and development program. We’re not ready for this.”. That kind of freaks me out.”.

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Anthropology for Beginners

NOVEMBER 13, 2022

There is much disagreement about whether the study of public administration can properly be called a discipline, largely because of the debate over whether public administration is a subfield of political science or a subfield of administrative science (Kenneth 2012) [1].From Policy research. Programme evaluator and designer 3.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

EdSurge connected with educators who decided to leave the classroom this year and with researchers focused on child psychology and student achievement to better understand how turnover impacts teachers and students—and why the retention crisis remains, despite efforts to return to normalcy. And we just didn't.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Market research shows that there will be high demand for the graduates of the doctoral programs in physical and occupational therapy that Hawai‘i Pacific is opening here on one floor of a building in an industrial park it will share with the administrative offices of a casino operator. Eighty-four U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 2, 2018

Stanford University research that shows that the black incarceration rate is five times the rate of whites, and one in every black child has a parent incarcerated compared to one in every 60 white kids. Related: Who benefits from research on racial disparities? One in seven black men in New Orleans are in prison or on parole.

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Living Geography

NOVEMBER 17, 2024

GeoCapabilities began in 2012 with a pilot project led by the American Association of Geographers. It is research-informed but also practical in nature. There are some excellent suggestions for readings in this important area contained in this section, including Mark Sheehan's work on a "culturally responsive" curriculum.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 11, 2023

Museums have largely escaped the culture wars roiling many school districts and are still seen as trusted institutions. More than 150 teachers have graduated from the program since it started in 2012. “I government, according to data from the American Alliance of Museums. Futter, president emerita of AMNH. “We

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 10, 2021

We know that these obstacles exist, and we haven’t addressed them,” said Wil Del Pilar, vice president for higher education policy, practice and research at the Education Trust, a nonprofit organization that focuses on helping students of color and low-income students.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

Spurred by brain research that has shown a strong connection between the social and emotional skills of students and their cognitive development, more schools across the country are emphasizing “soft skills” such as communication, collaboration, self-awareness and problem-solving as part of a trend known as social and emotional learning, or SEL.

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Political Science Now

JULY 11, 2024

Her research agenda focuses on political science pedagogy, campus-based civic engagement, and pop culture & politics. Her research agenda focuses on African-American politics, race and ethnic politics, and American political development. Dr. Athena M. Huerta is a co-author of the textbook Practicing Texas Politics.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 9, 2022

born, compared to Texas (72%), Nevada (64%) and California (63%), according to a Pew Research Center analysis. in 2012 to 16.9% It also has had a more established Latino population than most states: Almost 8 in 10 (79%) of the state’s Latinos were U.S.-born,

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 6, 2016

From just before the recession until 2014, the latest year for which figures are available, higher education central system office staffs grew by nearly 4 percent, according to federal data analyzed by the American Institutes for Research in collaboration with The Hechinger Report. It does take a few years to change a culture.”.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 3, 2017

Since the time that Roach’s son went there, for instance — he graduated in 2012, to be followed by two younger siblings — Dayton has stopped charging separate fees and rolled them into tuition, which it guarantees not to increase for the four years an accepted applicant remains enrolled.

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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. Research shows that when such students get instruction in their native language, they have greater educational success.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

based research organization focusing on Hispanics. Hispanic high school graduates nationwide have started to enroll in college at slightly faster rates than non-Hispanic whites and blacks, according to the Pew Research Center. With the help of several scholarships, Jose Perez enrolled at the school in 2012 as a freshman.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 23, 2018

The school’s efforts align with research on how rural communities can stanch population loss by luring residents back home. 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.

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Anthropology News

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

I’ll start with a confession: I am not a cultural anthropologist. and, in the context of international research, has United States citizenship. Rachel Watkins noted , “There is a longer history of a critical mass of people of color being involved in bioarchaeological research as subjects … than as knowledge producers.”

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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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