Anthropology.net

APRIL 14, 2025

For much of history, the rise of inequality has been treated like gravity: inevitable, natural, and inescapable. From the sprawling villas of Roman elites to the thatched huts of the poor in medieval Europe, textbook history often presents wealth disparity as a consequence of human progress. Three excavated Classic period (ca.

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Anthropology.net

AUGUST 19, 2024

Despite these difficulties, researchers have identified several ancient sites that suggest early hominins were utilizing fire well before the appearance of modern Homo sapiens. The largest drop in the size of the chewing teeth in the history of human evolution occurred around 1.8 In Kenya, controlled fire dating back 6 1.6

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Sapiens

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

leading research excavations, the Durotriges project of the University of Bournemouth. While some of the press coverage about the new research portrayed the findings as a surprise, archaeologists were far from shocked. The new findings come from individuals buried at the Late Iron Age cemetery of Winterborne Kingston in Dorset.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 28, 2025

Art history students in particular face growing difficulty in securing employment outside academic circles. art and art history education is in crisis : While 5,300 art history degrees were awarded in 2012, the number fell to just 3,500 in 2022 a 34 percent decline, The Nation reported. In the U.S.,

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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. In the post-war boom of the 1950s, college students were confident of their economic futures and many studied liberal arts subjects such as English, history and philosophy. History is seeing a similar collapse, down 35 percent.

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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. By the 1990s, genetic research began to challenge the Multiregional hypothesis. However, genetic research presents a different picture. Related Research Fu, Q., The Multiregional Evolution hypothesis.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 24, 2021

A 2012 review of studies on learning time found that the extra time often didn’t produce academic benefits for students and when it did, the benefits were small. Grossman, an economist at Princeton University and MDRC, a nonprofit research organization, who has studied this research literature. “My Credit: Getty Images.

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Anthropology.net

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

But every now and then, a new discovery forces a rewrite of this narrative, reminding us that human history is more intricate than we once thought. One striking feature of the Jebel Faya assemblage is the presence of a laminar system," the researchers explain.

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A Principal's Reflections

FEBRUARY 6, 2012

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. 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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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

Johnson feels about Friday,” she told the students as she paced around the cafeteria in an “I am black history” shirt. “If High school teacher Donell Harrell said he was almost fired for staging a Black History Month program. She liked the people and the culture and the history. You know how Ms. Southwest Georgia S.T.E.M.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 6, 2021

From 1993 to 2012, the share of students taking out loans to finance their degrees rose from roughly half to over two-thirds. But we’ve struggled as a nation to appropriately determine the “who” in public policy and research, cherry picking who should benefit from student debt abatement or who should shoulder its burdens.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Education Secretary Miguel Cardona credited the largest federal investment in education in history – roughly $200 billion – for keeping the United States “in the game” during the pandemic. math scores recorded in the history of the PISA math test, which began in 2003. The tests were administered in 2022.)

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Digital Promise

JUNE 30, 2016

Technology integration can be one of the most challenging topics to find quality research on. Edutopia’s tech integration review explores some of the vast body of research out there and helps you navigate useful results. To read more research-based articles on Online Learning, visit the Edutopia website.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 27, 2018

A group of researchers from the University of Michigan and Michigan State University followed students using the same social studies curriculum as the one used in Waterford in 20 high-poverty schools in Michigan. The researchers controlled for academic differences among the kids at the start of the school year.)

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 16, 2025

Kirk] Some quick history. In fact, the median acceptance rate at four-year universities was about 8 percentage points higher in 2022 than it was in 2012. For his research, he spent a year inside three college admissions offices at Emory in Atlanta, Davidson in North Carolina, and the University of Washington in Seattle.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 4, 2020

Now, with the added pressures of the coronavirus pandemic, the fabric of American higher education has become even more strained: The prospect of lower revenues has already forced some schools to slash budgets and could lead to waves of closings, experts and researchers say. Over the last decade, enrollment slipped as the economy grew.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 11, 2023

She credits a training program through the American Museum of Natural History in Manhattan for preparing her to do so. More than 150 teachers have graduated from the program since it started in 2012. “I The 15-month tuition-free program focuses on enrolling educators in “high-needs” middle and high schools.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 26, 2024

The people of the area really wanted a college,” Sister Ellen Doyle, president from 1986 to 1997, said in a video history. “A Homan is compiling an archive of Chatfield’s history. Just having a college nearby inspired her to go, she said. The college has now closed. That’s down substantially in just the last three years.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 17, 2019

The score gap between those who make less than $80,000 and those who make more than that amount has increased from 2012 to 2016, according to a 2016 ACT report. Attempts at addressing the wealth gap, which stems from the history of slavery, segregation, racism and discrimination, should be encouraged and lauded.

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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. Still, researchers say they can draw parallels. Credit: Tara García Mathewson/The Hechinger Report.

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Anthropology News

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

and, in the context of international research, has United States citizenship. This work entangles power structures with disciplinary histories that work to enforce and reinforce particular narratives about whose bodies are to be studied , whose bodies are to be cared for , and what care looks like for community members.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

Liberal arts colleges are in crisis,” said Doug Sofer, professor of history at another of these schools, Maryville College in Tennessee. based research organization focusing on Hispanics. Doug Sofer, professor of history, Maryville College in Tennessee. Still, these and a handful of other institutions are going after them.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 20, 2017

Chun’s district is at the forefront of a national movement to turn K-12 librarians into indispensable digital mavens who can help classroom teachers craft tech-savvy lesson plans, teach kids to think critically about online research, and remake libraries into lively, high-tech hubs of collaborative learning — while still helping kids get books.

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Digital Promise

DECEMBER 3, 2018

But that perception might be overly simplistic, according to a new working paper from the National Bureau of Economic Research. 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.

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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

OCTOBER 15, 2018

Andrea, who earned her college degree in English literature in 2012, is a temp in a law firm and drives people around on weekday mornings and through the weekends. More businesses must open their doors to students through internships, summer employment opportunities, research intensives and other experiential learning options.

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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. All of these are referenced in the book. This work is summarised in the online journal RIGEO. The first phase was funded by the AAG. Read the article by Lambert, Solem and Tani here.

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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.” psychology class.

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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.

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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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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

AUGUST 1, 2018

According to state data, the number of young people in state juvenile justice facilities dropped from 901 at the end of 2012 to 386 in 2017. In 2016, 45,567 young people were held in facilities nationwide, down 20 percent from 2012.) Its implementation has coincided with the rapid rise in course completions and diplomas awarded.

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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. 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.

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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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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 5, 2021

“The message is getting clearer and clearer: This is what our postsecondary population looks like,” said Alexandria Walton Radford, co-author of a new study by the American Institutes for Research that identified 67 “promise” programs across the U.S. that pay college tuition for adults. ?Valissa?White, It is a stubborn problem.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 11, 2020

For instance, the families who lost the most in the foreclosure crisis were the same families who were denied Parent Plus loans in 2012 when a change was made to the underwriting criteria. Patterson Research Institute; The State of For-Profit Colleges. Almost 45 million Americans are shouldering $1.5 Washington DC: UNCF Frederick D.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 25, 2023

It was the first lesson in a school week that would take her kids through memoir writing, an introduction to division and research on Indigenous history, each activity carefully curated by Snyder. The Boston Teachers Union Pilot School, where Snyder has worked since 2012, is a “teacher-powered” school.

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