Anthropology.net

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

A Discovery in the Desert The story of human migration is often told in sweeping arcs—great waves of Homo sapiens leaving Africa, moving into Eurasia, and eventually populating the entire planet. Instead, we provide new chronometric data indicating human presence at the end of the MIS 5 humid period, around 80,000 years ago."

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Anthropology.net

APRIL 14, 2025

Long before pharaohs ruled and scribes recorded human affairs, the seeds of economic disparity had already taken hold. “But these factors can be leveled off or modified by different human decisions and institutions.” The Great Leveler: Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age to the Twenty-First Century.

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Sapiens

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

The error perhaps was in believing that this was a single event in a linear, evolutionary understanding of humanity through time. Nonetheless, recent ancient DNA work is now revealing patrilineal descent for some Neolithic groups in Britain. A reconstructed roundhouse gives a sense of what structures in the Iron Age looked like.

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Anthropology.net

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

Human history is not just about where we came from but how we adapted to the ever-changing environments we encountered. Studies on mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA), which is inherited exclusively from the mother, found that all modern human mtDNA lineages trace back to a common ancestor in Africa, roughly 200,000 years ago.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 1, 2020

The number of college students choosing to major in history has dropped dramatically over the past decade. After the Great Recession hit in 2007, the number of business majors nationwide went, up while enrollment for humanities majors dropped. The AHA launched the nationwide initiative in 2012 and called it “Tuning.”.

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The Hechinger Report

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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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 27, 2018

They created multicolored posters to explain what different departments of local government do, from sanitation to human resources. For this experiment, the researchers spent years developing four separate project-based units on history, geography, economics and civics. The curriculum development was the subject of a 2012 paper.)

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 29, 2018

The report details the shaky background of for-profit institutions, including a history of providing inaccurate job placement rates, misleading students about job prospects, and a pattern of saddling students with immense amounts of debt. Sign up for our Mississippi Learning newsletter. Choose as many as you like. Weekly Update.

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Anthropology News

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

I study human skeletal remains of the past, how burial contexts were constructed, and what they revealed about communities. My work sits at the nexus of human biology and archaeology, two disciplines known for being deeply positivist and scientific, valuing numbers, models, and testable hypotheses as a gold standard.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 4, 2020

Many colleges and universities have a history of mismanaging their finances, increasing spending even as enrollments fell or going deeply into debt to construct new buildings. Chris Pines, former philosophy and humanities professor at the University of Rio Grande in Ohio. Colleges in Crisis. We’re treading water and there’s no raft.

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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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Digital Promise

DECEMBER 3, 2018

Anyone studying the humanities probably has a story of someone raising a skeptical eyebrow and asking: “What do you plan to do with that?” People who major in subjects like history or political science don’t get first jobs that are as lucrative, but they catch up a lot,” says Deming. Read the original version here.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 6, 2022

The city itself has had a scrappy commitment to existence in its 123-year history, surviving the boom and bust of the timber industry that first gave it life and weathering the 21st century with a fairly steady population of about 2,500. Covington County Superintendent Babette Duty chalks those cases up to human error.

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Anthropology News

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

To the left of the gallery, Denyse Thomasos’ 2012 Untitled , in her signature abstract expressionist style, presents a watercraft motif evoking familiarity with her earlier works where they transform into coffins and reveal the horrifying reality of the Transatlantic Slave Trade.

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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 19, 2016

Statewide, 30 percent of casework-related staff left between 2012 and 2015, according to a state audit. Nonetheless, the number of counselors in Wisconsin has stayed flat since 2012, according to a state audit, although there has been an increase in the number of counselors in training.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

His mother chaired the university’s history department. Gallot graduated from Grambling in 1987 and leveraged his HBCU degrees (Juris Doctorate from Southern University in 1990) to become a state representative for the area in 2000 and state senator in 2012 before being installed as the tenth president of GSU in 2016. Weekly Update.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

Students participate in morning workshops in advance of national May 1 “Day Without Immigrants” rallies, learning also about the labor rights history of May Day rallies worldwide. The exception is in the two humanities classes students take every day, one in each language. Photo: Tara García Mathewson/The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 4, 2016

In November 2015, the federal agency that oversees and provides funding to state VR offices noted that many of the problems that led to Tennessee’s high-risk designation for 2016 were identical to those spelled out in an audit issued in December 2011, “establishing a long history of material non-compliance.”.

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ED Surge

JULY 27, 2023

That has sparked a burst of activity by teachers at schools and colleges to change their assignments to make them harder to game with this new tech — and hopefully more human in the process. Some of those instructors are using tools that attempt to detect text written by bots, such as GPTZero and a new tool by Turnitin.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 23, 2018

Onalaska, situated roughly halfway between Seattle and Portland, is proud of its history. 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. Census data. over that period. “I

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 7, 2018

Nekkita Beans, a Mississippi native and president of the University of Mississippi’s Black Student Union, stood center stage in a campus auditorium reading aloud the history of a group of men who fought to keep people like her enslaved, illiterate and, in many ways, invisible. OXFORD, Miss. Sign up for our newsletter. Weekly Update.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 11, 2017

Amy Slaton, a professor at Drexel University in Philadelphia who studies the history of science and engineering in education, worries that the method is frequently adopted to save costs. While it may work to improve math skills, it is unlikely to help students advance in the humanities, she said. Others question its efficacy.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 5, 2021

Adults with workplace skills such as human resources training or financial management deserve credit for such college-level learning, said Mathew Bergman, an associate professor at the University of Louisville who is a national expert in adult learning and teaches in the program. Yet, higher education has been a tough sell in Kentucky.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

Oregon has a long history of offering overnight, outdoor learning programs as part of the regular school year schedule. She thinks schools need to give kids “a basic environmental literacy, a basic understanding of how earth systems and human systems interact, and how decisions individuals make will impact those systems.”.

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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.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 16, 2019

It’s part of our history, but as we bring kids in from other countries [we should offer] more popular ensembles in other countries.”. The district also offers courses like Digital Audio Production, History of American Pop and AP Music Theory. The data from the earlier survey is available in a detailed 2012 report by the U.S.

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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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Political Science Now

JULY 30, 2024

These processes enabled political trajectories that led to higher levels of human development and more robust postcolonial democratization in contexts previously characterized by forced settlement than those that experienced colonial occupation. University of Notre Dame, 2012). He holds degrees in International Relations (B.A.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 11, 2017

Social Studies teacher Michelle Adler talks to sophomores Maiya Schwartz, left and Emily Terranova about an assignment in an Honors Human Geography class at Gray-New Gloucester High School on Thursday, June 1, 2017. “It’s the long arm of the state,” she says. ” Photo: Gregory Rec/Portland Press Herald.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 6, 2016

Oregon has a long history of offering overnight, outdoor learning programs as part of the regular school year schedule. She thinks schools need to give kids “a basic environmental literacy, a basic understanding of how earth systems and human systems interact, and how decisions individuals make will impact those systems.”.

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ASHP CML

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Principal Faculty Joshua Brown is professor of history emeritus and former executive director of the American Social History Project and professor of history at the Graduate Center, CUNY. Halls Professor of the History of Art (emerita) at Indiana University. He is a noted scholar of visual culture in U.S.

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Anthropology News

JANUARY 24, 2024

There is a long history of US imperial politics in Latin America and the Caribbean. 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.

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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). References “activism.(n).” Etymology Online Dictionary. link] Alinsky, S.D.

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A Principal's Reflections

SEPTEMBER 3, 2017

Without them, humanity cannot survive. ” ― Dalai Lama Typically, I am a very focused writer. This has now been the worst flood in the history of the United States. Having road out Hurricane Sandy in New York City back in 2012 I can say that this experience was worse. Humanity was beginning to rise to the occasion.

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Anthropology.net

NOVEMBER 29, 2024

A groundbreaking study, published in Nature Human Behaviour 1 , offers unprecedented genetic evidence that these communities lived without clear social stratification. This glimpse into the past underscores the diverse social structures humans have experimented with throughout history. Source: Science , 2012. Hofmann, D.,

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