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."

Humanities 52

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Anthropology.net

FEBRUARY 8, 2025

The scientific establishment, still enthralled by the Eurocentric idea that human origins were tied to Asia or Europe, was unwilling to accept an African cradle for humanity. His work was shaped by the racial and colonial attitudes of his time, and his interpretation of human evolution was, at times, influenced by problematic ideas.

Heritage 92

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Anthropology.net

AUGUST 19, 2024

Cooking is often viewed as a significant turning point in human evolution. It not only provided the extra calories needed to support larger brains 1 but also transformed the way early humans interacted with their environment. Unlike other species, humans are biologically adapted to consume cooked food.

Humanities 105

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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.

Archaeology 111

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Catlin Tucker

DECEMBER 9, 2021

2007; Klassen, Perry & Frenzel, 2012; McIlveen & Perera, 2016; Perera, Granziera, et al., It suggests the importance of relationships and human connection in the teaching profession. Many aspects of a teacher’s work can function to increase or decrease their engagement.

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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

Ancestry Anthropology Archaeology Humanities 52

Catlin Tucker

DECEMBER 20, 2020

My adaptation of Staker and Horn’s (2012) often cited definition is rooted in constructivist principles emphasizing the student’s role as an active participant in the learning process. It is that human side of teaching that is so rewarding.

Tradition 218

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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). Anthropology modules appear in programs in three programs I have taught: Archaeology and Anthropology, Human Sciences, and Music.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 8, 2024

AI and humans scored essays differently by race and ethnicity “Diff” is the difference between the average score given by humans and GPT-4o in this experiment. Diff” adjusts this raw number for the randomness of human ratings. GPT-4o marked the essays almost a point lower than the humans did. for the humans.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 9, 2017

Nathan Deal put it in 2012, six months after the launch of the program: “To have a successful future in Georgia, and remain competitive nationwide and globally, we have to have an educated workforce, and that means we need to do a better job getting people into college, make sure they receive a high-quality education and then graduate them.”.

Humanities 93

Humanities History High School Economics 93

ED Surge

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

These stories of resilience and triumph allowed me to see my own humanity as a Black person, something I later realized I desperately needed. I needed to learn about my people in order for me to see my own humanity, and for the students I’ve taught over the past 13 years, I know this to be true.

History 112

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 27, 2018

data cited in the lawsuit, between 2012 and 2017, only about half of requests for sports team from schools that had more than 90 percent black and Latino students were approved, whereas about three-quarters of such requests were approved for schools whose student bodies were 10 percent or less black and Latino students. The P.S.A.L.

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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.

Humanities 104

Humanities Advocacy Human Rights Social Science 104

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 13, 2020

The National Center for Education Statistics reported that about 23 percent of the teaching workforce in the United States was age 50 to 59 in 2012, the most recent federal data available, with more than 7 percent older than 60. The overwhelming majority of deaths have occurred in people who are at or above retirement age.

Charter School 145

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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

Anthropology Economics Sociology Archiving 135

Dangerously Irrelevant

JUNE 25, 2021

The School of Education and Human Development is a very special place and I’ve experienced nothing but good will and deep, caring support. But somehow I made it through and checked all of the boxes necessary for the final hoop jump. I’m incredibly grateful for my colleagues at CU Denver and for the opportunity to do good work here.

Humanities 123

Humanities Research Teaching Education 123

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.

Social Justice 111

Social Justice Economics Government Humanities 111

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

That was an increase of 2 percentage points over the previous year, and the highest share of students not returning for their sophomore year since 2012. That was an increase of 2 percentage points over the previous year’s level, and the highest share of students not returning for their sophomore year since 2012. percentage points.

Sociology 125

Sociology High School Humanities Research 125

ED Surge

MAY 2, 2022

It’s like whomever wrote the report jumped in the DeLorean and set the clock to 2012. Business as usual wasn’t working well for a lot of faculty and staff in 2012, and it’s less likely to work in 2022. And I fear many leaders will fail to appreciate just how palpable the hunger for change is among faculty and staff in higher ed.

Tradition 132

Tradition Cultures Humanities Education 132

The Hechinger Report

MAY 5, 2022

In 2012, the panel issued a joint statement asserting that calculus should not be the “ultimate goal of the K-12 mathematics curriculum.” In fact, admissions officers say students who wish to gain admission to competitive universities often feel compelled to take the course, even if they intend to major in social science or humanities.

High School 110

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Digital Promise

DECEMBER 8, 2016

Virtual Learning: A Human-Centered Approach. This is human-supported learning because it is virtual.”. Teachers are trained to stop at every avatar in the Center to ensure each learner experiences the human connection that a virtual world provides. Her answer: Do it virtually. Hughes emphasized, “This is not distance learning.

Humanities 97

Humanities Tradition Teaching Education 97

Anthropology News

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

In 2012, they began by recording pigs inside an AgroSuper factory farm. By broadening discussions of oppression and resistance, new forms of solidarities emerge between humans and animals that disrupt both power and property relations and can spark a larger political transformation. Activists knew they needed their own documentation.

Anthropology 98

Anthropology Humanities Cultures 98

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 29, 2018

A 2012 report by the federal Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee found “state oversight of for-profit education companies has eroded over time due to a variety of factors, including State budget cuts and the influence of the for-profit college industry with State policymakers.”. Choose as many as you like. Weekly Update.

Advocacy 90

Advocacy History Humanities Education 90

The Hechinger Report

MAY 23, 2020

Ten climate change-fueled disasters in 2012 across the U.S. Ten climate change-fueled disasters in 2012 across the U.S. ? At UCSF, students including Colin Baylen, Karly Hampshire and Nuzhat Islam have formed an interdisciplinary student group called Human Health + Climate Change.

Teaching 127

Teaching Community Engagement Research Tradition 127

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.

Archiving 98

Archiving Anthropology Social Science Economics 98

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.

Museum 127

Museum Teaching Professional Development High School 127

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 27, 2018

They created multicolored posters to explain what different departments of local government do, from sanitation to human resources. The curriculum development was the subject of a 2012 paper.) Back in the classroom, they discussed their ideas for improvement.

Project-Based Learning 111

Project-Based Learning Civics Historic Sites Social Studies 111

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 1, 2020

After the Great Recession hit in 2007, the number of business majors nationwide went, up while enrollment for humanities majors dropped. Colleges are looking to cut costs, so a declining pool of students is an existential threat to humanities departments. The AHA launched the nationwide initiative in 2012 and called it “Tuning.”.

History 68

History Economics Humanities Teaching 68

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

As teachers, we all know the importance of warm, caring human interaction. She founded an EL Education pre-K-8 school in Santa Fe (Santa Fe School for the Arts & Sciences), where she served as teacher and principal for 13 years and where Reading Is Magic and Reading Quest began in 2012. Sign up for the Hechinger newsletter.

Teaching 122

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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

Anthropology Pedagogy Archaeology Social Justice 98

Digital Promise

JANUARY 24, 2019

Rest Is Not Idleness: Implications of the Brain’s Default Mode for Human Development and Education. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 33(4), 704. Immordino-Yang, M. Christodoulou, J. A., & Singh, V. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 7(4), 352–364.

Psychology 102

Psychology Learning Science Teaching Humanities 102

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.

Museum 98

Museum Anthropology Cultures History 98

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 29, 2017

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. Skilled trades show among the highest potential among job categories, the economic-modeling company Emsi calculates.

Economics 111

Economics High School Tradition Humanities 111

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

Advocacy Government High School History 111

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 10, 2019

Leave this field empty if you're human: “We see a lot of spending everywhere on tablets, computers, counting the ratio of computers per student,” said Helen Lee Bouygues, who founded the Reboot Foundation in 2018. Sign up for Jill Barshay's Proof Points newsletter. Choose as many as you like. Weekly Update. Future of Learning.

Research 112

Research Critical Thinking Educational Technology Economics 112

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

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. Sign up for Jill Barshay's Proof Points newsletter. Choose as many as you like.

Cultures 111

Cultures Research Tradition Humanities 111

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?” STEM has been a darling of policymakers and the education world in recent years, and humanities sometimes the bear , with K–12 schools across the country sticking “STEM” into their names.

Political Science 72

Political Science K-12 Humanities History 72