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Boost Morale with These Simple Strategies

A Principal's Reflections

Thriving cultures that produce results make every effort to keep this on the positive side. Pile on the positive feedback Sometimes there is never enough of a good thing when it comes to building up culture. Listening is one of the best tools that can be leveraged to gather crucial information on the pulse of a culture.

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Children as Artists: A New Perspective on Upper Paleolithic Cave Art

Anthropology.net

By integrating insights from developmental psychology, researchers have identified playful and imaginative marks made by young artists, fundamentally rethinking prehistoric creativity. The article is titled, “Children as playful artists: Integrating developmental psychology to identify children’s art in the Upper Palaeolithic.

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Research: The Influence of Socioeconomic Status on Learning

TeachThought

They prefer either someone they previously deemed accurate or someone who shares their cultural background (Corriveau & Kurkul, 2016). Palardy (2013) investigated high school-aged students to examine socioeconomic segregation’s impact on student attainment outcomes. The first was peer influence.

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The Gene That May Have Helped Shape Human Language

Anthropology.net

Did this genetic divergence give modern humans a competitive advantage in terms of communication, social organization, and culture? Interestingly, Neanderthals and Denisovans lacked this specific NOVA1 mutation , raising the possibility that their vocal capabilities were different from those of early Homo sapiens. DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00397

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The new homeschoolers: More diverse, very committed

The Hechinger Report

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

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Research scholars to air problems with using ‘grit’ at school

The Hechinger Report

“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. Some include grit ratings on report cards (though Duckworth has concerns about grading kids on grit.)

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A college where the graduation rate for black students has been 0 percent — for years

The Hechinger Report

ASHTABULA, Ohio — Alexis Turner listened carefully as the administrators at the freshman orientation for Kent State University at Ashtabula ticked through the student groups she could join on campus that fall: English Society, Psychology Club, Student Veterans Association. This story also appeared in Eye on Ohio. Very few have succeeded.

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