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Farming Inequality: How Ancient Land Use Split Societies

Anthropology.net

For at least 10,000 years, humans have worked the land to feed families, build communities, and form civilizations. Despite their size, archaeological evidence suggests relatively even distribution of house sizes and public investment in civic infrastructure. "We Human Nature , 29(3), 203–219. link] Flannery, K.

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The Intersection of Inquiry-Based Learning and High-Quality Instructional Materials in Social Studies

ED Surge

Additionally, social studies encompasses a wide range of disciplines, including history, geography, civics and economics, each with its own set of disciplinary practices. The C3 Framework was released in 2013. An inquiry-based education trains students for college, career and civic life — C3! C3 dropped like a feather.

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We Have to Meet in Person to Be Moved by People’s Stories

Anthropology News

Anthropology has been quite slow to embrace Helen Schwartzman’s insight in The Meeting: Gatherings in Organizations and Communities (1989) that meetings offer a vital window into collective human projects and organizations. Solitary confinement is torture, as defined by the United Nations and many of the world’s human rights organizations.

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How social studies can help young kids make sense of the world

The Hechinger Report

Without social studies, we lose the civic mission of public schools,” said Stephanie Serriere, a former early-grade teacher who is now an associate professor of social studies education at Indiana University-Purdue University Columbus. “But Related: It’s time our educational institutions instilled some civic-minded values in students.

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Building educational “success” on the backs of fired black teachers

The Hechinger Report

However, only 37 percent were re-employed by 2013, including 15 percent who worked in other parishes. Reformers used an antiseptic term to describe it: strategic management of human capital. Adding insult to injury, non-profit groups were set up to support the new human capital as they found new jobs and places to live.

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Celebrating ConnectED’s Achievements Toward Transforming Education

Digital Promise

Since President Obama’s ConnectED announcement in 2013 in Mooresville, NC , there has been more than $10 billion committed as part of the five-year program to transform American education. This includes more than $2 billion in private-sector commitments.

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Racial diversity as a financial necessity at state universities

The Hechinger Report

By the time Alexander became president in 2013, four decades had passed since the federal government sued to diversify LSU. Almost as soon as Alexander arrived in 2013, he began pushing the university to do better. Even his bioengineering major made him diverse: Many students come to school politics from the humanities departments.

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