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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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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A Principal's Reflections

JULY 23, 2017

The evidence of such connections came from the medical understanding of how human sensory perception affects cognitive calculations. As such, Barrett and Zang (2009) identify three key design principles: Naturalness : Hardwired into our brains, humans have the basic need for light, air, and safety. Barrett, P., Moffat, J., &

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Anthropology 365

APRIL 23, 2025

I was trying to understand how humans and wildlifeparticularly javelinaslive together in messy, contested landscapes, shaped as much by perception and politics as by biology. Instead, Jon turned his deep grounding in genetics into a sharp critique of how science makes claims about human difference. By the time I left for a Ph.D.

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Anthropology.net

MARCH 25, 2025

The results challenge long-held assumptions about how early humans controlled tool shape and suggest that the differences in Levallois core designs may be more influenced by cultural traditions than previously thought​ Why Levallois Technology Matters Levallois technology represents a milestone in human cognitive and technological evolution.

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Sapiens

OCTOBER 31, 2024

My point is to communicate that there are many languages and, therefore, an incredible diversity of ways humans think, reason, and feel. How else would we have reconstructed the cultural history of entire human lineages and fragments of ancient vocabularies? But pinpointing a more precise number opens the door to all sorts of problems.

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Anthropology.net

MAY 2, 2025

“The production technology of bone-tipped hunting weapons used by Neanderthals was in the nascent level in comparison to those used and introduced by modern humans,” — Golovanova et al., Nature Ecology & Evolution , 5(7), 896–899. link] Villa, P., & Roebroeks, W. Neandertal demise: An archaeological analysis.

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Anthropology.net

AUGUST 19, 2024

Cooking is often viewed as a significant turning point in human evolution. It not only provided the extra calories needed to support larger brains 1 but also transformed the way early humans interacted with their environment. Unlike other species, humans are biologically adapted to consume cooked food.

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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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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

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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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

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

Human history is not just about where we came from but how we adapted to the ever-changing environments we encountered. Studies on mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA), which is inherited exclusively from the mother, found that all modern human mtDNA lineages trace back to a common ancestor in Africa, roughly 200,000 years ago.

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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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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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Anthropology.net

APRIL 16, 2025

For at least 10,000 years, humans have worked the land to feed families, build communities, and form civilizations. Human Nature , 29(3), 203–219. But the way those lands were used—how they were divided, worked, and governed—did more than sustain life. Journal of Archaeological Research , 29, 371–413.

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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.

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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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Teaching American History

JANUARY 21, 2025

How does one reconcile Kings devotion to human equality and individual rights with his later call for a Bill of Rights for the Disadvantaged and a guaranteed annual income? I Have a Dream speech, which ranks among the most famous speeches of the 20 th century.

American History 52

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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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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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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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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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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 4, 2018

Between 2006 and 2013, 52 percent of CPI participants earned a certificate or a degree, compared with 24 percent of community college students who weren’t in the program, the foundation-funded independent study found. Nationally, only about 28 percent of single mothers earn a degree within six years, a recent study found. Weekly Update.

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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

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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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

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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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

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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. 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.

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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.

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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.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 21, 2019

percent from 2013-14. A small upswing in education spending first began in 2013-14 after cuts of $600 per student. Leave this field empty if you're human: These national numbers are just averages. California raised school funding by more than 16 percent to $11,420 per student over the two years from 2013-14 to 2015-16.

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