Anthropology for Beginners

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

i] History of the usage: The word “peasant” appears in English in late medieval and early modern times, when it was used to refer to the rural poor, rural residents, serfs, agricultural laborers, and the “common” or “simple” people. A number of well-known studies of peasantry use this approach. What is a peasant? What are peasantries?

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Studies Weekly

APRIL 29, 2024

We hope students of Asian or Pacific Islander heritage share their experiences and their cultural traditions with their peers, and teachers include the contributions of Asian and Pacific Americans to our collective history in lessons this month. Mostly forgotten by history, thousands of Chinese immigrants, who came to the U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

A 2019 Gallup poll reported that a decreasing proportion of Americans consider a college degree to be very important — from 70 percent in 2013 to 51 percent in 2019. New degrees like the Sister of Arts and Mistress of Arts receded into history. Public attitudes are also changing.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Education policy leaders at the federal level and beyond were exploring the growing role of competency-based education and non-traditional providers —and calls were growing for stronger connections between universities and the world of employment. To start off, it’s worth thinking back to 2016. But these are by far the exception.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

But Native American and Muslim leaders say they believe rates have increased in their communities as well, after the pandemic gave families the time and space to reflect on whether traditional schools were really serving their needs. Related: Schools provide stability for refugees. Covid-19 upended that. You’re stronger minded.

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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. Testing Wars in the Public Schools: A Forgotten History. link] Reese, W.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 21, 2018

Fryer convinced the Houston school district to randomly assign 23 elementary schools to adopt specialized teaching for two years, from the fall of 2013 to the spring of 2015. Eventually the subjects that children need to learn, from physics to history, become more complex, and at some point teachers cannot be expected to teach all subjects.

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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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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

AUGUST 11, 2017

Moheeb is part of a new program that is challenging the way teachers and students think about academics, and his school is one of hundreds that have done away with traditional letter grades inside their classrooms. 442 moved away from the traditional system, it lost seven teachers. Mastery-based learning, of course, has its critics.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 29, 2017

That’s unprecedented in the history of as long as data has been kept on higher education,” said Kevin Crockett, senior executive at the enrollment-management consulting firm Ruffalo Noel Levitz. Concordia College in Minnesota slashed its tuition by 34 percent in 2013, and enrollment rose.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

Many classrooms resemble a traditional setup, with a teacher at the front of the room and students sitting in rows, at desks, completing assignments with pen and paper. This is what the Dysart school district is hoping to do for every student, from the most high-tech classrooms to the most traditional. Right now, most do not.

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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. This requires a deep institutional commitment to diversity and inclusion, one that gets us beyond the celebration of the makeup of our populations and opens up our curricula to multiple perspectives and histories.

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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. High school students create story maps to deepen their own learning and help others, in history, science, and even English literature.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 22, 2018

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 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. Ten schools began using the model in 1993.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 1, 2018

In Illinois, District 428 awarded 73 high school diplomas in 2017, up from 65 in 2013 when there were twice as many juveniles in the system and their average stay was longer. Jones-Redmond advocates a no-computer policy on Wednesdays, when traditional teaching takes center stage and students take a break from their online work.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 21, 2024

In Pasadena, Dufford said, it has been tradition for established families not to send their children to public schools. “So Having lived through the desegregation order, Hirahara, who is now an award-winning mystery writer , wishes more people knew about the history of the city’s schools.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 17, 2018

In 2007, the federal government required that at least 50 percent of Head Start teachers have a bachelor’s by 2013. ( With the growth of public pre-kindergarten, those who have the ability to get a traditional four-year degree have an incentive to get a bachelor’s in elementary education and a Pre-K-to-second grade teaching certification.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 2, 2016

In July 2013, the Mississippi legislature mandated the consolidation of Starkville and Oktibbeha County school districts in an effort to save money and ensure a better education for students in the low-performing Oktibbeha County schools. Related: Is consolidation the answer for Mississippi’s struggling schools? Photo: Nicole Lewis.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 30, 2018

Pane predicts that if the personalized learning trend continues, it could upend traditional notions of what a classroom looks like. “I Audrey Watters, author of a forthcoming book on the history of education technology. They’re used to traditional teaching, insomuch that they almost need to be spoon-fed,” said Logan. “So

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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. When you look at the history of this nation, inequity has affected African-American students the longest,” said Delgado.

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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.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 22, 2019

In several districts, the percentage of uncertified teachers has doubled since 2013-14. To become certified in Mississippi, teachers must meet three requirements: Earn a bachelor’s degree; complete a traditional or alternate teacher training program; and pass the Praxis. Adrienne Hudson, founder of RISE.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 8, 2017

In fall 2013, she persuaded Martin to enroll at KIPP, in part by pointing to the fledgling varsity team the school had fielded that year. In New Orleans, Friday night football is a big deal,” said Joey LaRoche, who became the principal of KIPP Renaissance in 2013. And they’re embracing football. “In The Lessons of Frederick Douglass.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

Michael McLaughlin and his mother, Michelle, at Michael’s 2013 graduation. One time, a teacher gave his special education world history class all of the answers to their final exam. high school with a traditional diploma, proving that his disability didn’t prevent him from meeting the same standards as his peers.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 18, 2016

Osborn, who graduated from Clinton in 2005 and returned five years ago to teach history at the high school, said the benefits of Clinton’s plan stuck out to him even as a kid. By 2013, that gap had narrowed significantly, with 84 percent of black students “proficient,” compared to 95 percent of white students.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 18, 2016

Of the 78 students who entered Match as ninth-graders in the fall of 2013, 16 have moved, transferred or no longer attend, 19 are repeating 11 th grade and one is repeating 10 th grade for a second time. Meeting the tough demands of a challenging college prep curriculum is hard work; they don’t all make it. So is punctuality.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Lincoln County is rural and rugged, forged by industry and ecology and steeped in a complicated history of extraction, exploitation and economic struggle. The program was designed to place workers at Stinger Welding, an Arizona-based bridge building company that brought 70 jobs to Libby before its closure in 2013. Forest Service.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

His was a brash mission shared by a new breed of charter school leaders who said they could succeed where traditional neighborhood schools had failed. But he spoke up in Romantic Literature, and he helped other students with their African American Religious History papers. Statistics are only true until someone bucks them.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 16, 2020

Teachers valued her blackness, she said, and taught her the history of African and African-American strength. Douglass student Ivyierra Washington into a traditional Garifuna dress. She told the students she planned to teach them how to make hudut, a traditional dish of coconut milk, herbs, plantains, and fish.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

Since 2013, when the school switched to its skills-based curriculum, Juarez has seen gains in graduation rates and college acceptance that seemed unlikely for a school that had been on academic probation since 1996. All the traditional method does is sort students. The results have been dramatic. This is an issue of equity,” he said.

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Cult of Pedagogy

MAY 12, 2024

My own understanding of school choice has been heavily informed by Diane Ravitch’s 2013 book Reign of Error: The Hoax of the Privatization Movement and the Danger to America’s Public Schools. Cara Fitzpatrick When I read this book, I learned some fascinating and frankly ugly things about the history of school choice in the U.S.

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Sapiens

OCTOBER 31, 2024

My task set me on a path to understanding the history and craft of counting languages. Take, for example, the 1986 Men’s FIFA World Cup in Mexico, which featured the most amazing goal in the history of football (or “soccer,” depending on which variety of English you speak). But even this gets convoluted.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 25, 2016

SASKATOON, Saskatchewan — The students in the crowded hall fall silent as Darlene Speidel, an elder and “knowledge keeper” of native traditions, says a prayer in the Lakota language over soup and bannock, a kind of flat bread. “It Photo: Liam Richards. Related: How free college tuition in one country exposes unexpected pros and cons.

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ED Surge

APRIL 15, 2024

Additionally, social studies encompasses a wide range of disciplines, including history, geography, civics and economics, each with its own set of disciplinary practices. How does the C3 Framework differ from traditional sets of standards, and what factors contributed to its widespread adoption in social studies education?

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

Rasmusen understandably has come under fire for a history of racist, sexist and homophobic social media posts. In 2013, when Daniels started his tenure at Purdue, that stat was 6.3 Protecting core principles matters — but so does leadership. According to the Journal and Courier’s analysis of Purdue’s published diversity numbers, 8.3

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 7, 2016

It is just one of a slate of waivers approved by lawmakers, including class size, teacher preparation time, hiring and firing rules, and others, allowing traditional public schools to operate with the same educational requirements as their area charter schools. In 2013, 7,758 were enrolled, and in 2016 that number fell to 3,944.

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