Anthropology.net

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

A Multidisciplinary Exploration In 2013, a renewed effort led by paleoanthropologist Shi-Xia Yang launched a comprehensive investigation of the site. Unveiling Cultural Creolization The findings suggest a fascinating process of cultural exchange, blending inherited traditions with innovative techniques. Yang et al.,

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Anthropology News

OCTOBER 7, 2024

It represents a key example of how Tibetan refugees have established institutionalized, international education that preserves, advances, and shares Buddhist culture and philosophy. However, among community members, the relevance of linguistic diversity to the continuity of Tibetan Buddhist culture is a topic of considerable debate.

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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

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Anthropology for Beginners

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

These scholarly traditions produced a wealth of theory and data that has been discovered by contemporary anthropology, but they do not constitute the historical back ground of the anthropology of peasantry. Some scholars emphasized generic cultural or “folk” characteristics of peasants. [vi]

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 12, 2023

But the latest national study from a Stanford University research group calculates that students, on average, learned more at charter schools between the years of 2014 and 2019 than similar students did at their traditional local public schools. We see that existing schools are getting better over time and that’s a hugely positive story.”

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 23, 2020

550 billion — the investment needed to bring schools nationwide up to standard due to damage caused by postponing repairs, according to a 2013 federal estimate. Schools hold the history and culture of a place through yearbooks, trophy cases, and photo archives. Many students have fun on the playground when the school is closed.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 22, 2024

But Boaler’s popularity and influence have made her a focal point in the current math wars, which also seem to reflect the broader culture wars. Tens of thousands of teachers and parents flocked to her 2013 online course on how to teach math. Academic fights usually don’t make it beyond the ivory tower.

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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.”. She sees their upbringing, steeped now in the traditions and language of their people, as a sure path to making them stronger individuals. “If

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 29, 2024

But traditional internships are not universally accessible. “At Not everybody is a traditional 18- to 22-year-old student,” Churches said. The experience “changed my life,” she said, opening her eyes to new career possibilities as well as a new culture.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

What is new is that we are calling them badges and microcredentials and using them primarily to certify specific skills, such as cross-cultural competency, welding and conversational Spanish. . So what are they? Microcredentials are certifications of mastery; badges verify the attainment of specific competencies.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

The first schools to implement what Public Impact calls an “Opportunity Culture,” did so during the 2013-14 school year, and Edgecombe County Public Schools is set to become the first district to bring the model systemwide. Each school that embarks on creating an Opportunity Culture does so in a unique way, based on its needs.

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Anthropology News

JANUARY 24, 2024

Thirteen US residents—Black, white, and brown—mixed among about 30 community members sipping tinto , a traditional sweet Colombian coffee, and listening to testimonies of those who had been threatened or lost loved ones due to illegal armed groups or mining projects. It was 2013, and I was on my first trip to Colombia.

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Cult of Pedagogy

JANUARY 21, 2024

After all, framed that way, teachers give hundreds of standardized tests a year, even those who do learner-centered assessment, project-based learning, or otherwise collect evidence of student learning in ways that are considered alternative or non-traditional. Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis , 42 (3), 375–392. link] Reese, W.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2019

She attended Goyco as a child and she lived just a few blocks away when, in 2013, the Department of Education shut the school down. “I Dominguez is part of a neighborhood activist group fighting to retake the abandoned school and turn it into a community arts and culture center. It made me very sad to see the school closed.”.

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Studies Weekly

APRIL 29, 2024

Teaching about Asian Pacific American Heritage Month April 29, 2024 • Studies Weekly Asian Pacific American Heritage Month is a great opportunity to incorporate culturally responsive teaching into students’ learning experience. In 2013, Senator Inouye was awarded posthumously with the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Barack Obama.

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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). Relationships require maintenance.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

In 2013, Deborah Brown Community School, in Tulsa, Oklahoma, sent Tiana Parker home after telling the 7-year-old that her locs did not look “presentable.” Citing a dress code policy, they separated him from other students and prevented him from going to lunch with his peers because they feared it would be too “distracting.”

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 1, 2022

Critics respond that replacing traditional A to F grades with new forms of assessments is like a college-level version of participation trophies. The number of college students with one or more mental health problems has doubled since 2013 , according to a study by researchers at Boston University and elsewhere.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 18, 2018

For most educators, it’s a cultural shift, and one that comes with additional, often uncompensated, work. Vermont’s experiment in experiential learning goes back a number of years, but it took off in 2013, when the legislature passed a law that lets students meet state graduation standards through work-based experiences.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 25, 2021

Superintendent Rico Munn made mental health a priority when he came to Aurora Public Schools in 2013. The school year was so atypical, traditional measures such as attendance, behavior and course completion are skewed. “It And we had a whole host of indicators that we were not connecting with our students in the right way,” he said.

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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. East Campus proves that every day, reclaiming students’ brilliance that too often gets lost in our more traditional systems. It’s kids in here that don’t learn like that. Related Posts.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 29, 2017

Yet more than 400 campuses still had openings for freshmen and transfer students in the fall as of May 1, the traditional end of the admission period, according to the National Association for College Admissions Counseling. Concordia College in Minnesota slashed its tuition by 34 percent in 2013, and enrollment rose.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 16, 2021

Segregating public school children on the basis of race or ethnicity is inherently suspect,” he wrote in his 2013 decision. In this poster, the association highlights the fact that traditional methods of finding gifted children often miss children who are low-income, nonwhite or do not speak English at home.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 22, 2018

According to Berger, Crew fosters a schoolwide “culture and spirit of being on a team and looking out for each other.” Kids in traditional schools sometimes act like they’re on a cruise ship, where they sit on deck and teachers bring them stuff to do,” Berger said. “We And how to listen to each other.”. How am I doing?

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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.

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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.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Traditional language learning in the U.S. percent decline in course offerings between 2013 and 2016. For many, the case for language learning is simply about being able to interact with people from other cultures. is in trouble. Is this approach an answer? Most kids don’t want to become a linguist or get a Ph.D.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 28, 2016

Columbia College Chicago, where I became president in 2013, used to describe itself as an arts and media college. Consider that our mission statement, rather than promising “to produce the next generation of…” (you fill in the blank), declares that we must prepare young people “to author the culture of their times.”.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 26, 2016

Other stories in the series look at schools that are recruiting from their own alumni to increase diversity and a traditional teacher education program focused on recruiting Hispanic teachers. This is a very culture-heavy city and the more teachers you have who know that culture, the better the schools will be,” said Walton.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

Many schools rely on counting noses at traditional Back-to-School nights or parent-teacher conferences to gauge whether parents are engaged in their children’s learning. nitially, Malik relied on traditional meetings to get parent feedback. Hutchins has been working on this issue with the state since 2013.

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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. A lively discussion about how students from multiple geographic locations and culturally diverse areas could work together to make a difference is their respective communities.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 5, 2017

By 2013, Webster managed to graduate just 53 percent of its students, and it was clear to school and district officials that drastic change was in order. The change in the school culture since the Diplomas Now partnership began in 2013 is palpable, marked by rising expectations for students.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 10, 2016

In 2013, the Census Bureau reported that African Americans and Latino have consistently been underrepresented in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) fields. It’s about unlearning learning culture,” said Johnson. We are the product of a culture that wants to see it done right first.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 13, 2017

The regional research group Southern Education Foundation found that in 2013, poor students accounted for 51 percent of the public school population. There’s a historical and cultural tradition of going where your family has been,” she said. The majority of students currently in public schools in the U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 15, 2021

And even though many of them have moved to an online environment, you’re looking at first-generation college students that don’t come from a culture of knowing how to navigate the process.”. Enrollment at two-year schools swelled during the downturn a decade ago. Higher education experts worry that many students never will.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 25, 2016

Other stories will look at how the decline of traditional preparation programs has cut off a pipeline of black teachers and two efforts to identify more potential teachers from low-income, minority neighborhoods. NASHVILLE, Tenn. The program’s first cohort also includes an immigrant from the Philippines and another from Bosnia.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 29, 2017

But perhaps the biggest deviation is that the school has eschewed traditional remedial courses altogether, building that content into its first-year curriculum and giving students whatever extra support they need in the credit-bearing classes. Remedial education has been the proverbial thorn in the side of higher education for decades.

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