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.

Archaeology 111

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Much of that had to do with the fact that I was learning about Black histories for the first time. These stories of resilience and triumph allowed me to see my own humanity as a Black person, something I later realized I desperately needed. For me, the ability to teach Black history is a matter of life and death.

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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.

Ancestry 52

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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.”.

History 67

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 9, 2017

Bowie, 24, dropped out of Georgia State after financial problems derailed him from his dream of becoming a history teacher. Nonetheless, he made it through the rest of high school, and kept his GPA high enough to be accepted at Georgia State University, where he wanted to study to be a history teacher. “My Sign up for our newsletter.

Humanities 93

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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.

Anthropology 135

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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

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

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.

Anthropology 98

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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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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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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.

Political Science 74

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 23, 2020

The Miami-Dade school district, for example, adopted a plan back in 2012 to close the digital divide. Half of the 20 most destructive wildfires in state history have occurred since 2015. And last fall, the Kincade Fire forced the largest evacuation in Sonoma County history. Alberto Carvalho, Miami-Dade superintendent.

Charter School 122

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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.

Advocacy 111

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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.

High School 112

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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.”.

Advocacy 111

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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.

K-12 98

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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

High School 111

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 8, 2019

We talked about the shooting at a Sikh temple in Wisconsin in 2012, the murders at a historic black church in South Carolina in 2015, the mosque fires in California, and the synagogue shootings in Pittsburgh and Poway in the past six months. We need to teach about religions just as we teach about culture — boldly, and with sensitivity.

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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.

Middle School 109

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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.

Economics 81

Economics Civics History Research 81

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.

Economics 143

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Life and Landscapes

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

And some of these celestial movements seem to mysteriously track human reproduction. The female cycle of menstruation and the duration of human gestation seemed to take on an added, special significance, when our distant ancestors looked up to the heavens and noted their similar movements. Reaching so far back into history?

Humanities 52

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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.

Social Justice 111

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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

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.

K-12 101

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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.

Archaeology 82

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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.

Human Rights 59

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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.

Museum 40

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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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ED Surge

AUGUST 28, 2023

In the meantime, the checkered history of school reform did not seem top of mind for students from Coolidge. Yet measuring whether a redesigned high school is working as intended, and why, is difficult to do. And evidence about whether DC + XQ’s work makes a lasting difference in the lives of D.C. teens won’t arrive for a while.

High School 117

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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.,

Archaeology 98

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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. A newborn baby, infant or young child requires other humans to look after its primary needs, making its ontogeny a social process.

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Society for Classical Studies

OCTOBER 11, 2024

For scholars of gender archaeology and history, the body has become a privileged site for the investigation of women’s lives in antiquity (Liston 2012; Shepherd 2012). 1999) ‘Human Skeletons from the Greek Emporium of Pithekoussai on Ischia (NA): Culture, Contact, and Biological Change in Italy after the 8th Century BC’, in R.H.

Archaeology 52

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

Since 2012, when the department began publishing complete information on how schools are funded, the group of 13 schools has received more than $100 million from the bonus. Since 2012, 13 of New York City’s most coveted high schools have received more than $100 million in additional funding. Sign up for our newsletter. Weekly Update.

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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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