Anthropology.net

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

A Genetic Mystery Unraveled For years, scientists have tried to piece together the evolutionary puzzle of human language. What genetic shifts allowed humans to develop the intricate vocal control necessary for language? Research suggests that mutations in the human NOVA1 gene may have played a role in the development of language.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 8, 2022

Humanities professors across the country have ceaselessly lamented the precipitous decline in undergraduate humanities majors in recent years. During the decade following the Great Recession of 2008, the number of humanities bachelor’s degree recipients fell by a whopping 14 percent — from a peak of about 236,000.

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A Principal's Reflections

FEBRUARY 10, 2013

The only thing though is that this day was just like any other typical day at my school as digital learning has become an embedded component of our school''s culture. Works of art and architecture, not unlike historical documents, biographies, or works of fiction, are a testament to particular cultures and historical events.

Sociology 270

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Anthropology.net

MARCH 13, 2025

Before the soft-footed, domesticated Felis catus found its way into Chinese homes, another feline species occupied human settlements for thousands of years. Their findings suggest that leopard cats filled the niche of rodent control in human settlements long before domesticated cats arrived. Image credit: Zheng H, Liu Y, Chi M.

Archaeology 59

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 1, 2018

The point is that the connections between humanities and science have been lost in today’s separation of disciplines. Indeed, a recent report by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences discovered that humanities and STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) training majors largely dwell in different silos.

Humanities 89

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Anthropology 365

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Johnson, University of Texas at San Antonio As the human population continues to expand into what was once wilderness, people increasingly come in contact with wildlife. Living with Javelinas explores how humans and nonhumans can coexist in ways that respect the autonomy and agency of all beings involved.

Anthropology 40

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 27, 2020

It was two weeks before the university would be abruptly shut down by the coronavirus, and every corner of the campus seemed jampacked — except this quiet classroom, where a handful of students were studying the societies and cultures of the Caribbean. Related: Will this semester forever alter college?

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Anthropology.net

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

In their paper published in Evolution, Medicine, and Public Health 1 , the researchers argue that this type of play fulfills an evolutionary need inherited from our ape and early human ancestors. Modern humans, while less adept climbers than other primates, still retain the physical capacity to engage in these activities. 1 Fannin, L.

Anthropology 105

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ED Surge

MARCH 12, 2024

In 2013, a little over a decade ago, the number of young people who thought a college degree was very important was 74 percent, according to a Gallup poll. Of course there are many factors, but in this same period of time there have been a growing number of messages in popular culture giving highly skeptical views of college.

Economics 127

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Some parents are really worried about Covid and their child getting sick, but one of the main reasons is about culture. We want them to know a lot about their culture.”. If you know your culture, if you know where you come from, you’re stronger,” she said. What we’re trying to do is revive our culture,” she said. “So

Lesson Plan 142

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ED Surge

JULY 28, 2022

Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), not from the tribes themselves. Linda Smith, director of the Bipartisan Policy Center’s Early Childhood Initiative Baesler explains that culturally relevant curriculum at the early childhood level makes a difference in the later success of Native students.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 22, 2024

According to a recent report from the National Rural Education Association, 80,000 more English-learner and multilingual students were enrolled in rural districts in the 2021 school year than in 2013. Prior to that, she was the health and human sciences educator at Purdue Extension office in Clinton County, Indiana.

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ED Surge

APRIL 15, 2024

This variation reflects the diverse historical and cultural priorities of different states. We wanted social studies standards to have the flexibility to speak to culturally responsive pedagogies and, on the other hand, not let the federal government tell local or state governments how curricula should be created.

Social Studies 115

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Living Geography

NOVEMBER 17, 2024

In 2013, GeoCapabilities became an EU funded programme as a 3 year Comenius project (539079-LLP-1-2013-1-UK-COMENIUS-CMP). 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.

Geography 52

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Anthropology for Beginners

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

The roots of the anthropological interest in peasants were elsewhere, in the comparative study of the human condition. The central issue to which the early studies were addressed was the nature of human communities; they were, first of all, village studies, and only incidentally studies of peasants.

Anthropology 100

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Catlin Tucker

JANUARY 17, 2022

Emotional engagement encompasses a teachers’ feelings about, degree of dedication to, and emotional response to their work (Perera, Vosicka, Granziera & McIlveen, 2018; Klassen, Yerdelen & Durksen, 2013). It makes me feel more approachable and human when I share my life experiences with them. Students love this activity.

Classroom Management 146

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 11, 2018

“What would happen if all of our students felt like their full humanity was acknowledged in schools?”. It is a step in the right direction toward a culture that does not value violence but our common humanity. In 2013, a gunman entered a school outside Atlanta. Sign up for our newsletter. Choose as many as you like.

Library 79

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 28, 2018

Leave this field empty if you're human: “It matters who’s enrolled at flagships, because they tend to go on to be leaders in their states, particularly in politics and in business,” said Andrew Nichols, director of higher education research and data analytics at The Education Trust, an advocacy group that focuses on college access.

High School 109

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Digital Promise

DECEMBER 14, 2016

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. Two of our VILS locations are on Maui, Hawaii, which has an extraordinarily rich culture and strong community traditions.

Education 104

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 11, 2019

“Grit,” a best-selling book by University of Pennsylvania professor Angela Duckworth, may have swept parenting and education pop culture but research scholars say they are finding mounting evidence that it doesn’t add up. “As a human, the criticism doesn’t feel good,” Duckworth said. Choose as many as you like.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 29, 2017

It’s a cultural rebuild,” said Randy Emery, a welding instructor at the College of the Sequoias in California’s Central Valley. While a humanities class such as English costs a college just $52 per student credit, a respiratory therapy class costs $265 , according to a 2013 report by the Institute for Higher Education Leadership & Policy.

Economics 111

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 18, 2018

Leave this field empty if you're human: Vermont has one of the oldest populations in the United States and, the Vermont State Data Center reports, is now tied with Connecticut for the lowest birth rate in the nation. For most educators, it’s a cultural shift, and one that comes with additional, often uncompensated, work.

High School 107

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Anthropology News

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

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.

Anthropology 105

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Dangerously Irrelevant

NOVEMBER 30, 2015

High school student Jeff Bliss famously said in 2013 , “If you would just get up and teach them instead of handing them a freakin’ packet, yo. It’s kids in here that don’t learn like that. They need to learn face to face.” Unfortunately, too many alternative high schools are just about worksheet packets and self-paced online courses.

High School 76

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 26, 2023

But I somehow missed that he published a new, different kind of book in 2021 — “ The Anthropocene Reviewed ,” a collection of personal, contemplative, funny and deeply human essays. The real-life Paloma was featured on the cover of a 2013 issue of Wired, which inspired the film, with the headline “The Next Steve Jobs.”

Cultures 93

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 9, 2019

In 2013, the majority of schools across the country were not equipped to implement an innovative and technology-rich curriculum. AI + HI (Human Intelligence) = Educational Equity. To achieve educational equity by addressing learner variability, we need to blend AI (artificial intelligence) with HI (human intelligence) through data.

K-12 82

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Anthropology.net

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

In the heart of northeastern China lies the Shiyu site, a treasure trove of ancient artifacts that has recently rewritten the narrative of human migration. Unearthing Clues to Ancient Migration For decades, the Shiyu site has tantalized archaeologists with its rich deposits, hinting at a long and complex history of human habitation.

Artifacts 52

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

According to a 2013 study , just 1 in 5 California primary care physicians offered Spanish-language autism screening. They don’t speak the language; they don’t understand the culture, the routines—all of that invisible stuff that we take for granted. Some Latinos, specifically, run into another obstacle: the language barrier.

Advocacy 101

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Anthropology 365

APRIL 11, 2023

Humans and Javelinas: Something Something… I need a title … This study is motivated by the broad pressing question: How do we live in a world full of difference? In these regions, their lives become entangled with those of the humans with whom they share these spaces.

Humanities 40

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 11, 2018

There’s something about race that’s so fundamentally uncomfortable in our culture — especially when it intercepts with conversations about class and privilege.”. Leave this field empty if you're human: “In kindergarten through second grade, teachers are focused on getting kids to read. Sign up for our newsletter. Weekly Update.

Social Studies 111

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

Leave this field empty if you're human: Many sounded alarms that $16 billion a year in federal aid for low-income students could be misdirected to not-so-poor schools. students from 2013-14 before the community eligibility option went into effect nationwide through 2015-16 , its second year. Choose as many as you like. Weekly Update.

Advocacy 102

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Anthropology.net

JUNE 23, 2024

Scholars have long debated the cultural significance of these statues and the methods used by a Stone Age society to transport them, with some weighing as much as 92 tons. Previous estimates of the island’s agricultural capacity varied widely, with one 2013 study 5 suggesting that between 4.9 Arian Zwegers/CC BY 2.0 1 Davis, D.

Archaeology 52

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Anthropology News

JANUARY 24, 2024

It was 2013, and I was on my first trip to Colombia. After my first trip to Colombia in 2013, I began to grapple with this question. 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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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 12, 2018

Such pursuits are increasingly unusual in today’s standardized testing culture, especially in schools that serve low-income populations (roughly three-quarters of Elm City children qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a standard measure of poverty). Sign up for the Future of Learning newsletter. Choose as many newsletters as you like.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2018

Overall, the campus has attracted nearly 60 percent more students from Newark since 2013, the result of a concerted effort by Rutgers and other local groups to boost college-going rates in the city, university officials said. “We percent in 2000 to 25 percent by 2025. Sign up for our newsletter. Choose as many as you like. Weekly Update.

Social Justice 94

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 25, 2017

Baker is introduced as new Northern Illinois University president on April 2, 2013. Chief executives of public doctoral institutions make $430,283 on average, the human resources organization CUPA-HR reports; of privates, $626,487. Baker resigned after state investigators declared he mismanaged the university.

Government 94

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

Leave this field empty if you're human: Not so in Galt. You have to actually have a culture of strengths built into the school,” Waters said, claiming that her research shows that you can’t just teach strengths to students; the adults in the schools must also learn the method and model it. Choose as many newsletters as you like.

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