The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 17, 2018

Nilsson is an English teacher by training, but he has embraced the “digital humanities,” teaching students how to code to answer questions about books, speeches, news coverage, rap lyrics and more. That’s up from 12 states in 2013, when Code.org launched, aiming to expand access to computer science in U.S. Subscribe today!

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Catlin Tucker

DECEMBER 9, 2021

It suggests the importance of relationships and human connection in the teaching profession. Many aspects of a teacher’s work can function to increase or decrease their engagement. I love that the word connection is the largest word in this cloud.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 9, 2017

In doing so, he joined more than 108,000 other students who withdrew from Georgia’s public colleges and universities between 2013 and 2015 with thousands of dollars in federal student debt but no degree. The number of dropouts with federal loans at these institutions has grown from 35,443 in 2007-09 to more than 56,600 in 2013-15.

Humanities 100

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A Principal's Reflections

FEBRUARY 10, 2013

Below is a listing of some of activities that incorporated digital learning: In Mrs. Collentine’s Humanities class, students worked in the computer lab on researching the history of drama and theater in the culture of their own heritage. So what did you do on Digital Learning Day 2013?'

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Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 5, 2024

Neanderthals and Homo sapiens are both humans, but they differ in many ways. This research challenges prevailing assumptions about speciation, offering a more nuanced framework for interpreting the evolutionary history of modern humans and their closest relatives. What Defines a Species? ” Dr. . J., & Conde, C.

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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.

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Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Researchers from the ROOTS Cluster of Excellence at Kiel University have introduced a groundbreaking way 1 to apply modern philosophical concepts, like the United Nations Human Development Index (HDI), to ancient societies, offering fresh perspectives on how and why these communities thrived. Cambridge: Polity Press. van der Leeuw, S.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 9, 2023

When kids go to school right now there are more adults in the building of all types than there were in 2013 and more than when I was a kid,” said Marguerite Roza, director of the Edunomics Lab at Georgetown University, where she has been tracking the divergence between students and staff at the nation’s public schools.

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Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 5, 2024

This latest research on Anzick-1 not only sheds light on their diet but also deepens our understanding of their ecological footprint, reminding us of the intricate interplay between humans and their environments throughout history. Journal : ResearchGate , 2013. Journal : Quaternary International , 2013. DOI : 10.1016/j.quaint.2013.07.045

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Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 3, 2024

This suggests that children may have recognized and elaborated upon the figurative potential of their own creations, blending play and representation in a uniquely human way. Journal : Evolutionary Human Sciences , 2020. Book Chapter : Art and Human Development , 2013. DOI : 10.1017/ehs.2020.37 DOI : 10.1111/j.1540-6245.2011.01496.x

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Digital Promise

MARCH 6, 2019

Duckworth gave a TED Talk in 2013 explaining how grit—i.e., Since her 2013 TED Talk, Duckworth’s theory of grit has received a lot of attention and discussion, both good and bad. It is a natural human instinct to shy away from mistake-making, from confusion, from challenge,” Duckworth told EdSurge.

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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. He is currently a visiting scholar at the University of Virginia’s School of Education and Human Development. By 2019 that had fallen to just 41 percent. So what is happening here?

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 9, 2023

Teachers should document these characteristics through explicit examples that show the subject in action as a powerful and unifying instrument of human thinking. He’s the author of “Algebra the Beautiful: An Ode to Math’s Least-Loved Subject” (2022) and “ How Math Works: A Guide to Grade School Arithmetic for Parents and Teachers ” (2013).

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

Then in 2013, California adopted the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) , which included the recommendation to teach climate change. More than a dozen states don’t have any language in their science standards about human-caused climate change, according to the National Center for Science Education. They raise cattle.

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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.

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Anthropology Heritage Humanities Cultures 103

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

Leave this field empty if you're human: Alduha Leon wanted to earn a degree in marine science from Savannah State University. When he quit, he joined more than 100,000 students in Georgia who took out federal loans and withdrew from the state’s public colleges and universities between 2013 and 2015. Sign up for our newsletter.

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This Is Not a Sociology Blog

OCTOBER 27, 2017

In the previous post in this series I discussed how we can see public health strategies as “technologies” which reveal human health, life and behaviour in particular ways and act as tools for changing these. In the next post I will explore how genetic technologies are affecting how understand what it means to be human.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 29, 2020

Leave this field empty if you're human: Recent college graduates, working as Americorps members, serve as Saga’s tutors. Sign up for the Future of Learning newsletter. Choose as many newsletters as you like. Weekly Update. Future of Learning. Higher Education. Mississippi Learning. The results are, as one researcher puts it, “blockbuster.”.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 20, 2020

Ninety-six percent of children at the Walton Avenue School, a K-5 school in the Bronx he’d founded in 2013, face economic hardship, and about a third are homeless. They even dressed as aliens in order to ask why they weren’t being treated as human. Recently, Russo had seen a little boy wrapping up some of his school lunch.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 13, 2020

But by 2013, the number of teachers still employed who worked before the storm had fallen significantly. In a past column , I wrote that the spread of artificial intelligence technology is replacing human teachers with software in such places as the Mississippi Delta.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 17, 2022

As technology becomes cheaper and labor becomes more expensive, profit-maximizing firms invest more in technology to replace human labor. The goal of our study was to determine whether the technology and human labor of different educational levels are complements or substitutes for each other in certain jobs.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

The office would also coordinate with other federal agencies, such as the departments of Agriculture, Health and Human Services, and Housing and Urban Development, and be an active member of the Interagency Council on Homelessness. Related: Long before the coronavirus pandemic, student parents struggled with hunger, homelessness.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 27, 2020

The proportion of undergraduates who receive bachelor’s degrees in the humanities has fallen from a high of one in six to about one in 20 , according to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Any time they see an opportunity to attack particularly the humanities and the social sciences, that’s what they’ll go after.”.

Anthropology 144

Anthropology Social Science Sociology Humanities 144

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 23, 2018

Leave this field empty if you're human: “There were a lot of people who said you’re not going to be able to do it,” he says. They examined millions of anonymous tax forms and financial aid records covering everyone who went to college in the United States between 1999 and 2013. Sign up for our newsletter. Choose as many as you like.

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Humanities Research Education 99

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Pennsylvania is failing our most vulnerable children, and PA-DHS and PDE [the state departments of human services and education] must work together to fix this.”. Pennsylvania state law guarantees foster children in institutions the right to attend public schools under most circumstances.

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Education Advocacy Public School Humanities 89

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. Harvard University’s Roland Fryer set out to test just that in an experiment , published in the June 2018 issue of the American Economic Review.

Elementary School 112

Elementary School Economics Project-Based Learning Tradition 112

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

These scores, in part, are what prompted legislators to pass the Literacy-Based Promotion Act in 2013, which requires most students to pass a reading assessment before moving on to fourth grade. Sign up for our Mississippi Learning newsletter. Choose as many as you like. Weekly Update. Future of Learning. Higher Education.

Humanities 111

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 26, 2020

I’d already adapted this class in 2013 as one of Coursera’s free online humanities offerings. I myself was teaching a class on campus, “The Modern and the Postmodern,” that I am now teaching remotely.

Education 127

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Drafted by representatives of K-12 education, higher education, industry and state governments between 2011 and 2013, the standards call for schools to help students build on science knowledge from one year to the next and make connections across disciplines that have historically been approached as completely separate. Weekly Update.

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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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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 18, 2016

Teaching will be one of the last jobs taken away by the robots, because software will never be the same as a human who is thinking about what you’re thinking and can use that understanding to say, `here, let me unlock this for you.’ ”. Launched in 2013, Classkick’s app lets teachers with iPads or Chromebooks create lessons for any subject.

Humanities 111

Humanities High School Teaching K-12 111

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

In 2013, there were a couple dozen collegiate recovery programs; today, there are around 200, according to advocates. Leave this field empty if you're human: “They don’t want parents walking around campus seeing posters that imply there is any kind of a substance abuse problem on campus,” says James Winnefeld, a retired U.S.

Social Justice 99

Social Justice Cultures High School Government 99

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

Students study the human body on skeletons, using clay to make organs. Information was based on surveys of 12th graders in 2012 in North Carolina and 2013 in Texas. In addition, 64 percent are low income, 17 percent are not fluent in English and 18 percent have a disability, according to the school’s state profile in 2013.

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High School Tradition Tutoring Project-Based Learning 111

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Leave this field empty if you're human: Not everyone who enrolls in college will leave with a certificate or degree, but the number of people who drop out or take a break is much higher than experts previously believed. In December 2013, there were 29 million people with some college education but no degree. Future of Learning.

Education Policy 85

Education Policy Economics Research Humanities 85

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

Anthropology Civics Humanities Advocacy 105

The Hechinger Report

MAY 31, 2017

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.

Education 78

Education Civics Humanities Public School 78

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

Department of Health and Human Services. Leave this field empty if you're human: “The goal is to get kids moving throughout the school day,” Hillman said. “It was the only option,” Anna, 13, said with a shrug as she rocked back and forth on the chair, adding that she didn’t think the seating made any difference. In the U.S.,

Elementary School 109

Elementary School Middle School Charter School Humanities 109